Iran national football team records and statistics

This is a list of the Iran national football team's competitive records.

Appearances
As of 11 June 2024, the players with the most caps for Iran are:
 * Most capped players

The records are collected based on data from FIFA and RSSSF. bold names denotes a player still playing or available for selection.


 * Most capped goalkeepers


 * World Cup appearances
 * Ehsan Hajsafi, 9 Games, 2014, 2018, 2022
 * Alireza Jahanbakhsh, 8 Games, 2014, 2018, 2022
 * Mehdi Mahdavikia, 6 Games, 1998, 2006
 * Andranik Teymourian, 6 Games, 2006, 2014


 * World Cup event appearances
 * Masoud Shojaei, 3 World Cups, 2006, 2014, 2018
 * Ehsan Hajsafi, 3 World Cups, 2014, 2018, 2022
 * Karim Ansarifard, 3 World Cups, 2014, 2018, 2022
 * Alireza Jahanbakhsh, 3 World Cups, 2014, 2018, 2022


 * Oldest player to feature at the World Cup : Ali Daei, 37 years, 2006
 * Youngest player to feature at the World Cup : Hossein Kaebi, 20 years and 9 months, 2006.


 * Oldest player to feature at the Asian Cup : Ali Daei, 35 years, 2004
 * First appearance by a player who had never played for an Iranian club : Ferydoon Zandi, vs Bahrain on 9 February 2005
 * First player to debut as a substitute : Mohammad Mohajer, on 25 August 1941 vs 🇦🇫 afghanistan

Goals

 * Top goalscorers


 * First goal : Masoud Boroumand vs 🇹🇷 turkey, Friendly, 26 October 1947


 * Most goals in a match
 * Karim Bagheri, 7 goals vs 🇲🇻 maldives, 2 June 1997 (1998 World Cup qualification)
 * Karim Bagheri, 6 goals vs 🇬🇺 guam, 24 November 2000 (2002 World Cup Qualification)
 * Ali Daei, 5 goals vs, 12 June 1996 (1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification)
 * Four goals in a match
 * Behtash Fariba vs, 22 September 1980 (1980 AFC Asian Cup)
 * Nasser Mohammadkhani vs, 7 August 1984 (1984 AFC Asian Cup qualification);
 * Ali Asghar Modir Roosta vs, 25 June 1993 (1994 World Cup qualification)
 * Ali Daei vs 🇳🇵 nepal, 10 June 1996 (1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification)
 * Ali Daei vs 🇰🇷 south korea, 16 December 1996 (1996 AFC Asian Cup)
 * Ali Karimi vs 🇬🇺 guam, 24 November 2000 (2002 World Cup qualification)
 * Ali Daei vs 🇱🇦 lao people's democratic republic, 17 November 2004 (2006 World Cup qualification)
 * Karim Ansarifard vs, 11 October 2019 (2022 World Cup qualification)


 * Three goals in a match
 * Masoud Boroumand vs 🇵🇰 pakistan, 27 October 50
 * Abbas Hajari vs 🇵🇰 pakistan, 14 December 1959 (1960 AFC Asian Cup qualification)
 * Ali Jabbari vs 🇵🇰 pakistan, 12 March 1o69
 * Hossein Kalani vs 🇮🇶 iraq, 9 May 1972 (1972 AFC Asian Cup)
 * Ali Jabbari vs 🇹🇭 thailand, 13 May 1972 (1972 AFC Asian Cup)
 * Gholam Hossein Mazloumi vs 🇵🇰 pakistan, 3 September 1974 (1974 Asian Games)
 * Gholam Hossein Mazloumi vs, 8 June 1976 (1976 AFC Asian Cup)
 * Karim Bavi vs 🇳🇵 nepal, 4 June 1988 (1988 AFC Asian Cup qualification)
 * Farshad Pious vs, 24 September 1990 (1990 Asian Games)
 * Karim Bagheri vs, 17 June 1996 (1996 AFC Asian Cup qualification)
 * Hamid Estili vs 🇲🇻 maldives, 2 June 1997 (1998 World Cup qualification)
 * Ali Daei vs 🇺🇿 uzbekistan, 14 December 1998 (1998 Asian Games)
 * Ali Daei vs 🇲🇻 maldives, 31 March 2000 (2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification)
 * Ali Daei vs 🇬🇺 guam, 24 November 2000 (2002 World Cup qualification)
 * Farhad Majidi vs 🇬🇺 guam, 24 November 2000 (2002 World Cup qualification)
 * Sirous Dinmohammadi vs 🇴🇲 oman, 8 August 2001
 * Ali Karimi vs 🇸🇰 slovakia, 15 August 2001
 * Ali Daei vs 🇱🇧 lebanon, 17 June 2004 (2004 WAFF West Asian Championship)
 * Ali Karimi vs 🇰🇷 south korea, 31 July 2004 (2004 AFC Asian Cup)
 * Javad Nekounam vs 🇱🇧 lebanon, 6 February 2013 (2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification)
 * Sardar Azmoun vs 🇲🇰 macedonia, 2 June 2016
 * Mehdi Taremi vs 🇸🇾 syrian arab republic, 6 June 2019
 * Sardar Azmoun vs, 11 October 2019 (2022 World Cup qualification)
 * Mehdi Taremi vs 🇦🇫 afghanistan, 13 June 2023 (2023 CAFA Nations Cup)
 * Mehdi Taremi vs 🇰🇬 kyrgyzstan, 16 June 2023 (2023 CAFA Nations Cup)
 * Mehdi Taremi vs 🇭🇰 hong kong, 6 June 2024 (2026 World Cup qualification)


 * First goal in a World Cup match : Iraj Danaeifard, 1978 FIFA World Cup vs
 * First goal in a World Cup qualifying campaign : Gholam Vafakhah vs, 6 May 1973 (1974 World Cup qualification)
 * Oldest goalscorer at the World Cup : Yahya Golmohammadi, 35 years, 2006
 * Youngest goalscorer at the World Cup : Mehdi Mahdavikia, 20 years, 1998
 * Oldest goalscorer at the Asian Cup : Ali Daei, 35 years, 2004
 * Most goals scored from penalties : Ali Daei 16 Goals.
 * Youngest goalscorer : Allahyar Sayyadmanesh, 17 years and 342 days, 2019
 * First goal by a substitute : First Iranian goalscorer at the Azadi Stadium : Parviz Ghelichkhani vs 🇦🇺 Australia 24 August 1973


 * Hat-tricks

Top Results
Include only official results.

Biggest Wins
118 Win with +3 and more / 78 Win with only +2 / 150 Win with only +1

Biggest Defeats
17 Defeat with -3 and more / 26 Defeat with only -2 / 70 Defeat with only -1

PSO matches
PSO: 9 Matches in AFC Asian Cup - 4 Matches in Asian Games - Some of Matches in others Tournaments.

Source:

AET matches
AET: Only matches that result defined in overtime (without penalty kicks).

Home matches
As of 11 June 2024

Consecutive Win Matches
10 Wins (World Record: Germany 15 Wins):

Consecutive Unbeaten Matches
18 Matches (World Record - Longest Unbeaten Streaks: Italy 37 / Argentina 36 / Algeria 35 / Spain 35 / Brazil 35):

CAFA Nations Cup
====RCD Cup/ECO Cup====

LG Cup Four Nations Tournament

 * Note: The list only includes editions that were participated by the Iran national team.


 * consists of only official international "A" Senior matches (not including Youth, B Team and club team results).
 * Source: https://www.rsssf.org/tablesl/lgcup.html
 * Third Place Match [Jun 1] Iran did not play Ghana [Iran waited for 35 minutes on the pitch, while Ghana did not show up at all, apparently demanding prize money for the fourth-place finishers (uncommon in LG tournaments).  Eventually Iran left, without obtaining any information from the Nigerian 'organisers'.  One day later, the Nigerian FA awarded Ghana third place (and the relevant prize money) because Iran had left the pitch (sic!).  Iran have protested.]
 * apparently only 2 matches were played ([Oct 4] Iraq 0–2 Iran and [Oct 6] Jordan 0–0 Iran), structure of tournament unclear.

Other Minor Tournament

 * consist of only official international "A" Senior matches (not including Youth, B Team and club team results).
 * Quaid-E-Azam International Cup
 * 1985 Nehru Cup
 * 1999 Ciao February Cup
 * 2001 Civilization Cup
 * 2005 Tehran Cup

Friendly Match Results
This table consist of only 2 sided team friendly match results (not including 3 and 4 nations cup and other friendly and Minor Tournament). Also only official international "A" Senior matches (not including Youth, B Team and club team results).
 * As of 9 January 2024

Summary
The list shown below shows the Iran national football team all-time international record against opposing nations.

Head-to-head records

 * FIFA considers Russia as the inheritor of the records of Soviet Union.
 * FIFA considers Serbia as the inheritor of the records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia.
 * FIFA considers Czech Republic as the inheritor of the records of Czechoslovakia.

All Time General Statistics Record / Overview of Results

 * consists of only official international "A" Senior matches (not including Youth, B Team and club team results).


 * Excluding 2019 AFC Asian Cup Qual matches as they are counted in FIFA World Cup Qual (2018).
 * consists of only 2 sided team friendly match results (not including 3 and 4 nations cup and other friendly and Minor Tournament).

FIFA World Ranking records

 * Highest FIFA ranking : 15 (July 2005)
 * Lowest FIFA ranking : 122 (May 1996)
 * Best mover : 65 (July 1996)
 * Worst mover : -43 (October 1995)

Unofficial matches
Matches against clubs not listed.