List of Iran national football team managers

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Carlos Queiroz has led the team more than any other manager in the history.

The role of an Iran national football team manager was first established in January 1941 with the appointment of Hossein Sadaghiani.[1]

Forty-seven men have occupied the post since its inception; six of those were in short-term

Ali Reza Mansourian (one game). In comparison, Sadeghiani held the position for the longest to date with a tenure of 10 years, although the team only played 3 official matches during that time. As of May 2019, Carlos Queiroz, has led the team in 100 matches, more than any other manager in Team Melli's history. The most successful manager is Heshmat Mohajerani, winning the 1976 AFC Asian Cup, Quarter Finalist of 1976 Summer Olympics and Qualification for the 1978 FIFA World Cup.[2] Hungarian coach József Mészáros
became the first foreign manager of the team in 1959.

Croatia has the largest number of managers to have coached Iran, with over five managers. Several managers also hold dual nationalities, for instance Afshin Ghotbi, who holds both American and Iranian citizenships.

Position

Role

The Iran manager's role means he has sole responsibility for all on-the-field elements of the Iran team. Among other activities, this includes selecting the national team squad, the starting team,

substitutes and penalty
-takers.

The manager is given a free hand in selecting his coaching ("back room") staff. For example, in 2011 Carlos Queiroz appointed two

Markar Aghajanian as scout).[3] and one British (Mick McDermott
as fitness coach).

Appointment

The process of appointing a new Iran manager is undertaken by an FFIRI committee, which is composed of board members and other high-ranking FFIRI officials.

History

Hossein Sadeghiani

Hossein Sadaghiani

Sadaghiani was the first manager of Iran national team appointed in 1941. He led the team in only three matches with two wins and one loss. His assistant,

Fenerbahce SK
.

Mahmoud Bayati

A former

Iran Football Federation and was succeeded by Zdravko Rajkov. He was returned to the national team after four years and was re-appointed as head coach in 1972 after the resignation of Mohammad Ranjbar. Bayati led the team in the 1972 Summer Olympics with bad results and was unable to qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup
. He was sacked as national football team head coach in 1974.

Parviz Dehdari

He was appointed as head coach of national football team in 1971. He coached the team in Olympic Games in Munich. The team was able to successfully enter the Olympic competition but Dehdari resigned before the tournament. He resigned because of differences he had with his assistant, Mohammad Ranjbar. He was re-appointed as head coach of national team in 1986. He led Team Melli in 1986 Asian Games and 1988 AFC Asian Cup. Team Melli won third place in the 1988 Asian Cup and Dehdari was sacked on 22 January 1989.

Mohammad Ranjbar

Ranjbar began his coaching career as manager of

Iran Football Federation
appointed Ranjbar as the team's head coach and signed a two-year contract with him, but he resigned after two months.

Heshmat Mohajerani

Heshmat Mohajerani

Mohajerani began his coaching career in 1971; he started his coaching career as the

Team Melli
.

Under his coaching and management, Iran won the Asian Youth Championship for 4 consecutive years, while before his time the Youth Team had never won the Asian Championship. This achievement is a record that no other coach has been able to match. After this brilliant record with the youth team, Mohajerani was appointed as assistant coach to Irishman Frank O'Farrell.

Mohajerani's first major achievement was winning the 1976 Asian Cup when his team beat Kuwait 1–0 in the final at Azadi Stadium.

Shortly, the team was qualified for the Montreal Olympic games and for the first time in Iran's history, the team qualified for the next round. The pinnacle of Mohajerani's achievement, however, was the first ever advancement of the Iran national football team to the World Cup finals in Argentina in 1978.

Under his astute coaching, Iran managed to draw against Scotland, while performing gallantly against eventual runner-up the Netherlands.

In one of the most intriguing encounters and as a sign of the deep trust in youth, Mohajerani challenged the Kuwaiti Team, under the management of Carlos Alberto and Mario Zagalo, on their home turf in the last match of the World Cup preliminary game. Although Iran had already qualified, it was a matter of honor to keep the unbeaten record of the team. Mohajerani fielded a youth team against the full strength Kuwait and still managed to beat them 2–1 in a historic match.

Ali Parvin

In late 1989 Parvin became the Iranian national team manager. He had already gained experience managing Tehran powerhouse Persepolis FC. At first his popularity grew even more as the team won the

Stanko Poklepovic
.

Mohammad Mayeli Kohan

After good results with national futsal team, he was elected as manager of Iran national football team after Stanko Poklepović's resignation. He coached the team in 1996 AFC Asian Cup and was ranked in third place.

Jalal Talebi

He was the head coach of the

2000 Asian Cup in Lebanon. He resigned after Iran's elimination in the tournament.[7]

Miroslav Blažević

Well known throughout the football world for his 1998 World Cup sensation, Ćiro accepted an offer to lead the

2002 World Cup.[8] Ireland won 2–1 on aggregate, the defeat that marked the end of Blažević's time in Iran as his assistant Branko Ivanković
took over.

Branko Ivanković

Branko Ivanković

Ivanković was appointed to the head of the Iranian team on 29 January 2002. Under Ivanković, Iran's U23 football team won the

Homayun Shahrokhi.[9]

Ivanković had become very popular in Iran and the public media demanded a contract renewal, but the Football Federation was initially reluctant to appoint him as the head coach. Finally, after a period of negotiations he was reappointed as the head coach of Iran on 3 October 2003.[9]

Ivankovic led Iran to 2004 AFC Asian Cup third place.[10] They lost only to the hosts, China, in penalties in a very controversial match in which the Chinese luckily avoided multiple red cards.[citation needed]

Ivanković also led Iran to qualify for the

2006 World Cup, the third time in the country's history (they had previously been eliminated in the first round in 1978 and 1998).[10]

Despite him being the most successful coach of the Iranian National Team in terms of winning percentage, Ivankovic was not liked by the Iranian government who deliberately tried to replace him with a native coach.

The Ministry for Physical Education, which is a governmental watchdog on sports, tried to replace the coach before the World cup in Germany. However the Football federation of Iran resisted the pressure and kept Ivankovic for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Iran, at their opening game at the World Cup, showed a scintillating first half performance against Mexico, but conceded two goals in the second half to lose 1-3. The second match against Portugal was not successful either, with Iran conceding two late goals to lose 2–0 and being left without any chances of advancing to the second stage of the tournament. Mexico drew against Angola on the previous evening and left Iran at an unreachable four points behind. So, the third group match against Angola became insignificant for Iran. Angola put themselves into the lead with the opening goal after one hour of playing. The Iranians managed to equalise fifteen minutes later, eventually scoring their only point at the 2006 World Cup since the match ended in a 1–1 draw. This point was, however, only enough for Iran to occupy the last place in their group.

After the World Cup, MPE removed the Head of the Football federation of Iran, replacing Branko Ivanković with

Amir Qalenoei.[11] This in turn resulted a FIFA suspension for Iran's football due to political interference.[12]

Amir Ghalenoei

Ghalenoei was appointed as manager of the Iran national football team on July 17, 2006, to succeed Branko Ivanković. After a quarterfinals finish during the

2007 Asian Cup
, Ghalenoei was on the outs as Team Melli manager late in the year. Iran lost out to South Korea in a penalty shoot-out. Ghalenoei was after the game heavily criticized for substituting the goalkeeper just prior to the shoot-out.

Ali Daei

On 2 March 2008

Ehsan Hajysafi
, Daei's squad was often in flux as to who would be invited to a fixture. As well, many critics pointed towards the failures of Daei's team to score and an unsolved weakness in the central defense as causes for his downfall.

Afshin Ghotbi

After just three weeks after being announced as manager,

IRIFF forcing Mayeli Kohan's resignation as manager of Team Melli.[14] A week later, Afshin Ghotbi, an Iranian-American, agreed to succeed Mayeli Kohan as head coach of the Iranian national team, became the first American to take the job.[15] After this appointment, Ghotbi said in an interview "A life dream, a longtime ambition and a journey written in the stars is about to be realized I have to thank all the people around the world who have cheered, supported and inspired me to have this opportunity."[16]
However, under Afshin Ghotbi, Iran failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This was in spite of the team's reasonable performance, gaining 5 points from 3 games. His contract has now been renewed to continue coaching Team Melli. He continued to coach
Korea Republic
and this finished his era.

Carlos Queiroz

Carlos Queiroz

On 4 April 2011,

ranked seed.[18]

Since Queiroz's role as manager of the Iranian national team, he has been renowned for introducing players from the

Iranian-American Steven Beitashour among others.[19][20]

Iran qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup as group winners and competed in Group F alongside Argentina, Nigeria, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 1 June 2014, Queiroz announced his 23-man squad.[21] Prior to the tournament, they founded the Central Asian Football Association.[22] In the opening match of the tournament on 16 June, Iran drew Nigeria 0–0, making it their first clean sheet of the FIFA World Cup.[citation needed] In their next match, Iran was defeated by Argentina 1–0 with a late goal from Lionel Messi, and received praise after holding Argentina for 90 minutes while creating some attacking opportunities of their own.[23] Iran was eliminated from the tournament in their next game, a 3–1 defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Iran's lone goal was scored by Reza Ghoochannejhad.[24] After the tournament, Queiroz extended his contract until the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[25]

Iran qualified for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup as

Australia, the Iranians defeated Bahrain 2–0 with limited preparations.[27][28] A defensive minded Iran then defeated Qatar 1–0 thanks to a Sardar Azmoun goal before defeating the UAE by the same scoreline to reach the top of their group.[29][30] In the quarter-finals Iran faced rivals Iraq, who they had beaten weeks prior in a friendly match. Having received a controversial red card in the first half from referee Ben Williams, Iran led a valiant effort with ten men, scoring two goals late in extra time to draw the match 3–3. In the ensuing penalty shootout, Iran lost 7–6 in sudden death.[31][32][33]

Iran began their

Iranian Football Federation.[37] On 14 April 2015, Iran were drawn with Oman, India, Turkmenistan, and Guam in the second round of qualifiers.[38] On 26 April, Queiroz announced that he will continue as the manager of Iran for their 2018 World Cup campaign.[39]

Iran's 2018 World Cup run was the most successful in their history of FIFA World Cup qualifications. With Queiroz took charge, with Iran managed to easily top the group, only being held draw twice by Turkmenistan and Oman away and won all the remaining games.[40][41] In the third round, Iran was drawn together with South Korea, Uzbekistan, China, Qatar and Syria. This time, Iran went being undefeated throughout the qualification, managing seven wins out of ten and only conceded goals in the final game against Syria at home when Iran had already guaranteed a place in Russia.[42] This led to stronger enthusiasm for Iran in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Yet, despite high expectation, Iran was once again denied a place to reach the World Cup's knockout stage. Sharing group B with powerhouse Spain, Portugal and African opponent Morocco, Iran gained its first major World Cup win after 20 years in the match against Morocco, thanked to Aziz Bouhaddouz's own goal.[43] Iran then faced up Spain, where the Iranians bravely defended until getting slumped by a goal from Diego Costa that led Iran to suffer a heartbreaking 1–0 loss.[44] In the last game against Portugal, Iran held Cristiano Ronaldo's side 1–1 with a penalty in 90+4', and Alireza Beiranvand made headline with a heroic penalty save from Ronaldo as well, thus gave Iran four points, the country's best performance ever in the World Cup. However, with Morocco and Spain held draw 2–2, it was not enough to seal Iran in at the expense of two Iberian opponents.[45] Following the World Cup, Queiroz announced he would resign from the Iranian team.

He last led Iran in a major tournament occurred at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup where Iran took group D along with Iraq, Vietnam and Yemen. The Iranians started their campaign comfortably, with a 5–0 demolition of Yemen, before beating Vietnam 2–0 to reach the round of sixteen.[46][47] In the knockout stage, Iran proved to be a stubborn yet solid at defense, beating Oman and China on their way.[48][49] But in the semi-finals facing up Japan, Iran could not hold their temper and got whipped by the Japanese in a disappointing 0–3 defeat.[50] This crushing defeat was the last game of Queiroz for Iran, which he fulfilled by resigning from the team after the match.

Marc Wilmots

Belgian manager Marc Wilmots was appointed to lead Iran in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification where they were grouped with Bahrain, Iraq, Cambodia and Hong Kong. Iran played two friendlies against Syria at home and South Korea away, both with positive results.[51][52] The trend continued in their first stage of the World Cup qualification games when Iran easily whipped Hong Kong 2–0 at home before creating their biggest World Cup win since 2002, a 14–0 victory over Cambodia at home. (The latter was the first time women were allowed to enter Iranian stadiums.[53]) Iran however were unable to build on these achievements. The team suffered two shock losses to Arab rivals Bahrain and Iraq, both away, which put Iran in danger of not qualifying to the World Cup.[54][55] Wilmots resigned as Team Melli Manager when his wages weren't paid on time, and he left Iran and filed a claim with FIFA. FIFA arbitrated and ordered the Iranian football federation to pay Marc Wilmots €6,137,500 as compensation for breach of contract plus 5% interest. [56]

Statistics

As of 26 March 2024
  • caretaker♦
Name Nat From To P W D L Win% Tournaments
Hossein Sadaghiani Iran 15 January 1941 5 March 1951 3 1 1 1 033.33
Mostafa Salimi Iran 5 March 1951 2 April 1952 5 2 2 1 040.00 1951 Asian Games Silver Medal
József Mészáros Hungary 5 December 1957 18 December 1959 6 3 1 2 050.00 1958 Asian Games 14th Place
Hossein Fekri Iran 1 June 1961 16 March 1966 8 1 4 3 012.50 1964 Summer Olympics 12th Place
György Szűcs Hungary 10 September 1966 24 November 1967 7 4 0 3 057.14 1966 Asian Games Silver Medal
Hossein Fekri Iran 24 November 1967 26 November 1967 2 1 0 1 050.00
Mahmoud Bayati Iran 26 November 1967 7 March 1969 4 4 0 0 100.00
1968 Asian Cup
 Winners
Zdravko Rajkov Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 7 March 1969 17 September 1970 5 4 0 1 080.00
Igor Netto Soviet Union 4 November 1970 10 September 1971 3 0 1 2 000.00 1970 Asian Games 8th Place
Parviz Dehdari Iran 10 September 1971 7 May 1972 2 1 0 1 050.00
Mohammad Ranjbar Iran 7 May 1972 25 June 1972 9 5 1 3 055.56
1972 Asian Cup
 Winners
Mahmoud Bayati Iran 26 June 1972 17 January 1974 9 5 2 2 055.56 1972 Summer Olympics 12th Place
Danny McLennan Scotland 17 January 1974 3 September 1974 2 1 0 1 050.00
Frank O'Farrell Republic of Ireland 3 September 1974 10 August 1975 9 7 0 2 077.78 1974 Asian Games Gold Medal
Heshmat Mohajerani Iran 10 August 1975 6 September 1978 28 15 7 6 53.57
1976 Asian Cup
 Winners
1976 Summer Olympics Quarter Finals
1978 WC 14th Place
Hassan Habibi Iran 12 March 1979 25 February 1982 12 9 2 1 075.00
1980 Asian Cup
 3rd place
Jalal Cheraghpour♦ Iran 1 March 1982 25 November 1982 4 2 0 2 050.00 1982 Asian Games 8th Place
Mahmoud Yavari Iran 7 August 1984 1 December 1984 6 6 0 0 100.00
Nasser Ebrahimi♦ Iran 1 December 1984 16 February 1985 8 2 4 2 025.00
1984 Asian Cup
 4th place
Fereydoun Asgarzadeh
 Iran 11 February 1986 21 February 1986 2 2 0 0 100.00
Parviz Dehdari Iran March 1986 22 January 1989 20 10 6 4 50.00 1986 Asian Games 6th Place
1988 Asian Cup
 3rd place
Reza Vatankhah Iran 22 January 1989 17 March 1989 3 3 0 0 100.00
Mehdi Monajati Iran 30 May 1989 22 July 1989 3 2 0 1 066.67
Ali Parvin Iran 1 November 1989 28 October 1993 34 15 11 8 44.12 1990 Asian Games Gold Medal
1992 Asian Cup
 5th Place
Stanko Poklepović Croatia 3 October 1994 26 April 1996 4 1 2 1 025.00 1994 Asian Games 9th Place
Mohammad Mayeli Kohan Iran 26 April 1996 7 November 1997 38 23 9 6 060.53
1996 Asian Cup
 3rd place
Valdeir Vieira Brazil 16 November 1997 28 November 1997 3 0 2 1 000.00
Tomislav Ivić Croatia 28 November 1997 22 April 1998 5 1 2 2 020.00
Jalal Talebi Iran 3 June 1998 13 October 1998 4 1 0 3 025.00 1998 WC 20th Place
Mansour Pourheidari Iran 13 October 1998 22 March 2000 17 9 5 3 052.94 1998 Asian Games Gold Medal
Jalal Talebi Iran 22 March 2000 1 January 2001 21 13 5 3 061.90
2000 Asian Cup
 Quarterfinals
Ademar Braga Brazil 1 January 2001 19 January 2001 3 3 0 0 100.00
Miroslav Blažević Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia 24 April 2001 6 February 2002 19 10 4 5 052.63
Branko Ivanković Croatia 6 February 2002 4 February 2003 10 4 4 2 040.00
Homayoun Shahrokhi♦ Iran 4 February 2003 26 September 2003 5 1 1 3 020.00
Branko Ivanković Croatia 26 September 2003 21 June 2006 42 29 6 7 69.05
2004 Asian Cup
 3rd place
2006 WC 25th place
Amir Ghalenoei Iran 8 August 2006 22 December 2007 17 10 6 1 058.82
2007 Asian Cup
 Quarterfinals
Mansour Ebrahimzadeh♦ Iran 10 January 2008 20 March 2008 3 0 3 0 000.00
Ali Daei Iran 20 March 2008 28 March 2009 24 15 6 3 062.50
Erich Rutemöller Germany 1 April 2009 1 April 2009 1 0 1 0 000.00
Afshin Ghotbi Iran United States 22 April 2009 22 January 2011 30 16 6 8 053.33
2011 Asian Cup
 Quarterfinals
Carlos Queiroz Portugal 4 April 2011 28 January 2019 100 60 27 13 60.00 2014 WC 28th Place
2015 Asian Cup
 Quarterfinals
2018 WC 18th Place
2019 Asian Cup
 Semifinals
Marc Wilmots Belgium 22 May 2019 6 December 2019 6 3 1 2 050.00
Dragan Skočić Croatia 6 February 2020 7 September 2022 18 15 1 2 083.33
Carlos Queiroz Portugal 7 September 2022 30 November 2022 6 3 1 2 050.00 2022 WC 26th Place
Amir Ghalenoei Iran 12 March 2023 21 17 3 1 80.00

2023 CAFA

Winners
2023 Asian Cup
 Semifinals

By nationality

Country Managers
 Iran 23
 Croatia 5
 Brazil 2
 Hungary
 Belgium 1
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Germany
 Ireland
 Portugal
 Russia
 Scotland
 Serbia
 United States

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