🏆 Iran national football team 2026 World Cup Squads

The Iran national football team have represented Iran in men's international football since their first international match in 1941. It is administered by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI), the governing body of football in Iran, which is affiliated with AFC and comes under the global jurisdiction of FIFA.

Regionally, Iran has won four WAFF Championships and one CAFA Nations Cup. At the continental level, the country has won three AFC Asian Cup championships (1968, 1972, and 1976), three Asian Games (1974, 1990, and 1998), and the AFC–OFC Challenge Cup (2003).

Iran's best performance at the global level was reaching the quarterfinals at the 1976 Summer Olympics. The team has appeared at 12 qualifiers of the FIFA World Cup and qualified seven times (1978, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2026); Iran has never progressed beyond the group stages, but has won three matches: against the United States in 1998, Morocco in 2018, and Wales in 2022. The Iranian national team was undefeated in the 2026 World Cup, drawing three games out of three; despite being eliminated, this was the first time Iran finished an iteration of the World Cup without a loss, and it was one three teams to be undefeated in the Group Stage (alongside Spain and Argentina).