The Iran national handball team is the national

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

team of

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

and is controlled by the IR Iran Handball Federation.

Tournament records

World Championship

Asian Championship

Asian Games

Other tournaments

Islamic Solidarity Games

West Asian Games

Team

Current squad

Squad for the

2023 World Men's Handball Championship The 2023 IHF World Men's Handball Championship is the 28th such event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It is currently being held in Poland and Sweden from 11 to 29 January 2023. Denmark are the two-times defending World Champions ...

. Head coach:

Veselin Vujović Veselin Vujović (born 18 January 1961) is a Montenegrin handball coach and former professional player. He is the current coach of Iran national team. As a player, Vujović competed at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics for the Yugoslavia nation ...

Former coaches

* Yury Klimov * Yuri Kidyaev (2009–2010) * Borut Maček (2010) *

Ivica Rimanić Ivica Rimanić (born 3 November 1956) is a former Croatian handball player. Career Ivica Rimanić started his senior career in 1972 at RK Zamet. After playing 2 years for Zamet he moved to rivals RK Kvarner. With Kvarner Rimarić was part of th ...

(2011–2012) *

Rafael Guijosa Rafael Guijosa Castillo (born 31 January 1969, in Alcalá de Henares) is a former Spanish handball player, and current manager of Iran men's national handball team. When playing for the Spanish national team, he won bronze medals both in the 1996 ...

(2012–2014) * Borut Maček (2014–2015) *

Irfan Smajlagić Irfan "Pipe" Smajlagić (born 16 October 1961) is a Bosnian-born Croatian former handball player and current coach, who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the 1996 Summer Olympics for Croatia. In 1988 he was part of the ...

(2015–2016) *

Mohsen Taheri Mohsen Taheri is an Iranian former handball player and coach and a football administrator. He was the president and member of the director board of Sepahan F.C. club from 2016 until 2018. Club achievements He was player and captain of the Sepa ...

(2016) * Alireza Habibi (2017) * Borut Maček (2017) * Zoran Kastratović (2018) * Alireza Habibi (2019–2020) *

Manuel Montoya Manuel Montoya Fernández (born 18 October 1959) is the handball coach and manager. He started at the Col·legi Pare Manyanet in Barcelona. He has a Doctorate, PhD in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences and is a professor at the Instituto Nacio ...

(2021–2022) *

(2022–)

Past squads

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

– Bronze medal :*Farid Alimoradi, Alireza Rabie Dolatabadi, Mostafa Sadati, Iman Ehsannejad, Hossein Shahabi, Ali Akbar Khoshnevis, Masoud Zohrabi, Peyman Sadeghi, Hojjat Rahshenas, Saeid Pourghasemi, Mohammad Reza Jafarnia, Hani Zamani, Mohammad Reza Rajabi,

Allahkaram Esteki Allahkaram Esteki ( fa, الله‌كرم استکی , born 19 March 1988) is an Iranian handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six ou ...

and Rasoul Dehghani. Head Coach: Yury Klimov

Notable players

* Iman Jamali ''(later Hungary)''

References

External links

*
IHF profile
{{National sports teams of Iran Handball in Iran Men's national handball teams

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...