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Iran U23

Club · Iran · AFC U23 Asian Cup

«Team Melli Omid»

30 Matches

14 wins

9 draws

7 losses

52–23 Goals

+29 Difference

1.7 Scored per game

Form D D L W D L

Gold at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan remains the high point for Team Melli Omid, and it came with a squad older than the competition's usual age band — Ali Daei and Yahya Golmohammadi featured as over-age additions alongside a generation still working its way toward the senior side. Four years later in Doha the same tournament yielded bronze. Between those two results sits the 2015 WAFF U-23 Championship, won outright; the same competition returned a runners-up finish in 2023.

The side carries no separate founding date of its own — it exists as an age-limited layer of Iranian football overseen by the Iran Football Federation — but its first match on record was played on 3 December 1977, a 2–1 win over Kuwait under Heshmat Mohajerani. The under-23 format only became the fixed standard once the Asian Games adopted it in 2002 and the AFC followed with its own U-23 championship from 2013; at that tournament the furthest Iran has gone is the quarter-finals, in 2016.

Japan is treated as the sharpest test in Asia, South Korea and Iraq fill out the regional fixtures, and matches against Saudi Arabia carry weight beyond the pitch. Omidreza Ravankhah has run the side since 2025, working with a pool that keeps turning over by design: Mohammad Amin Hazbavi, Saman Fallah and Amirali Sadeghi have all stepped up to the senior national team in recent seasons, the usual route through for a squad built to graduate its best players rather than keep them.

Home games are played at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran, in the white and red the national sides have carried for decades. Renovation ahead of 2016 converted it to an all-seater and brought capacity down from roughly 100,000 to 78,116.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

23 Sep	Asian Games	Korea DPR U23 H	1:4	L
20 Sep	Asian Games	China PR U23 H	0:0	D
16 Sep	Asian Games	UAE U23 A	3:1	W
13 Jan	AFC U23 Asian Cup	Lebanon U23 H	0:1	L
10 Jan	AFC U23 Asian Cup	Uzbekistan U23 H	0:0	D
7 Jan	AFC U23 Asian Cup	Korea Republic U23 A	0:0	D

Standing

Asian Games

Group stage · Group B

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	China PR U23	3	1	2	0	2:1	5
2	Korea DPR U23	3	1	1	1	5:3	4
3	Iran U23	3	1	1	1	4:5	4
4	UAE U23	3	0	2	1	1:3	2

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 30

30 Matches

14 wins

9 draws

7 losses

52–23 Goals

+29 Difference

1.7 Scored per game

Match outcomes matches counted in total: 30

14 9 7

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	30	16	14
Scored	52	29	23
Conceded	23	10	13
Scored per game	1.7	1.8	1.6
Conceded per game	0.8	0.6	0.9
Difference	+29	+19	+10

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh Forward 1 Matches

Mobin Degaham Midfielder 1 Matches

Reza Gandipur Forward 1 Matches

Adib Zarei Goalkeeper 1 Matches

Mohammad Amin Hazbavi Defender 1 Matches

S. Sakharhizan Forward 1 Matches

E. Gholizadeh Midfielder 1 Matches

A. Razzaghinia Midfielder 1 Matches

Squad of Iran U23

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Matches
10	Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh	Forward	1
6	Mobin Degaham	Midfielder	1
17	Reza Gandipur	Forward	1
12	Adib Zarei	Goalkeeper	1
5	Mohammad Amin Hazbavi	Defender	1
9	S. Sakharhizan	Forward	1
7	E. Gholizadeh	Midfielder	1
8	A. Razzaghinia	Midfielder	1
19	Y. Jorjani	Defender	1
2	A. Koohi	Defender	1
20	Y. Mazrae	Forward	1
21	P. Shahrabadi	Forward	1
3	F. Moamelehgari	Defender	1
11	K. Taheri	Forward	1
14	F. Jafari	Midfielder	1
18	P. Latififar	Midfielder	1
22	G. Latifi	Midfielder	1
13	S. Sahraei	Defender	1
16	A. Kahrizi	Forward	1
1	M. Khalifeh	Goalkeeper	1
4	D. Iri	Defender	1
22	A. Abbasi	Goalkeeper	1
15	M. Mohebi	Defender	1