The Iran national handball team is the national

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team of

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

and is controlled by the IR Iran Handball Federation.

Tournament record

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 World Men's Handball Championship, IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 28th such event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It was held in Poland and Sweden from 11 to 29 January 2023. Denmark men's national handba ...

. Head coach:

Veselin Vujović Veselin Vujović (born 18 January 1961) is a Montenegrin handball coach and former professional player. He is the current head coach of RK Nexe Našice and Qatar men's national handball team. As a player, Vujović competed at the 1984 and 1 ...

Former coaches

* Yury Klimov * Yuri Kidyaev (2009–2010) * Borut Maček (2010) * Ivica Rimanić (2011–2012) * Rafael Guijosa (2012–2014) * Borut Maček (2014–2015) *

Irfan Smajlagić Irfan "Pipe" Smajlagić (born 16 October 1961) is a Bosnian-born Croatian former handball player and the current coach of Borac Banja Luka. He competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the 1996 Summer Olympics for Croatia. In ...

(2015–2016) * Mohsen Taheri (2016) * Alireza Habibi (2017) * Borut Maček (2017) * Zoran Kastratović (2018) * Alireza Habibi (2019–2020) * Manuel Montoya (2021–2022) *

(2022–2023) * Majid Rahimizadeh(2023–2024) *Rafael Silva (2024–)

Past squads

2006 Asian Games The 2006 Asian Games (), officially known as the XV Asiad or 15th Asian Games (, and commonly known as Doha 2006 (), were an Asian multi-sport event held in Doha, Qatar, from December 1 to 15, 2006, with 424 events in 39 sports featured in the ga ...

– 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 and Rasoul Dehghani. Head Coach: Yury Klimov

Notable players

Iman Jamali Iman Jamali Moorchegani (, , born 11 October 1991) is an Iranian-born Hungarian handball player who plays for SKIF Krasnodar and the Hungarian national team. He represented Hungary at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF Wo ...

''(later Hungary)''

References

External links

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

Handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...