Iran men's national handball team

World Championship

• 2015: 21st place

Asian Championship

• 1989: 8th place
• 1991: 11th place
• 1993: 9th place
• 2000: 5th place
• 2002: 5th place
• 2004: 7th place
• 2006: 4th place
• 2008: 4th place
• 2010: 7th place
• 2012: 5th place
• 2014: Bronze Medal
• 2016: 5th place
• 2018: 5th place

Asian Games

• 1986: 5th place
• 1998: 4th place
• 2006: Bronze Medal
• 2010: Silver Medal
• 2014: 4th place

West Asian Games

• 2002: 4th place
• 2005: Silver Medal

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2018 Asian Men's Handball Championship.

Head coach: Borut Maček

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 2 LW Mojtaba Heidarpour (1988-09-20) 20 September 1988 1.79 m Naft & Gaz Gachsaran 4 RW Milad Masaeli (1988-05-28) 28 May 1988 1.80 m Sang Ahan Bafgh Yazd 5 LB Shahoo Nosrati (1989-01-16) 16 January 1989 1.80 m Dunărea Călărași 6 LB Sajjad Esteki (1990-04-23) 23 April 1990 1.88 m Dinamo București 7 CB Pouya Norouzinejad (1994-06-23) 23 June 1994 1.85 m Kadetten Schaffhausen 8 P Alireza Mousavi (1990-04-27) 27 April 1990 1.98 m Dinamo București 9 P Mehdi Bijari (1983-12-05) 5 December 1983 1.90 m Sang Ahan Bafgh Yazd 12 GK Ali Rahimi Naft & Gaz Gachsaran 13 CB Allahkaram Esteki (1988-03-19) 19 March 1988 1.92 m Dinamo București 14 P Salaman Barbat (1990-03-16) 16 March 1990 1.89 m Mes Kerman 16 GK Mohsen Babasafari (1987-06-28) 28 June 1987 1.94 m Steaua Bucureşti 19 RW Mohammad Ghasemi Naft & Gaz Gachsaran 20 LW Amin Kazemi (1988-05-07) 7 May 1988 1.83 m Shahrdari Kazeroun 23 GK Saeid Heidarirad (1990-09-22) 22 September 1990 1.92 m Dinamo București 24 LB Amin Yousefinejad (1996-01-11) 11 January 1996 1.96 m Espérance Sportive 33 CB Mehrdad Samsami (1991-02-26) 26 February 1991 1.92 m Naft & Gaz Gachsaran 37 RB Jalal Kiani (1989-09-28) 28 September 1989 1.83 m Sang Ahan Bafgh Yazd 44 LB Afshin Sadeghi (1993-03-25) 25 March 1993 1.81 m Beykoz

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 (2015–2016)
• Mohsen Taheri (2016)
• Alireza Habibi (2017)
• Borut Maček (2017)
• Zoran Kastratović (2018–)

Past squads

• 2006 Asian Games — Bronze medal

• Farid Alimoradi, Alireza Rabie Dolatabadi, Mostafa Sadati, Iman Ehsannejad, Hossein Shahabi, Ali Akbar Khoshnevis, Masoud Zohrabi, Peiman 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 (later Hungary)