Iran men's national handball team

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Nickname Team Melli Appearances 1 (First in 2015) Appearances 12 (First in 1989) Location Iran		Coach Marcus Tatá Oliveira Best result 21st (2015) Best result 3rd (2014)

Association Islamic Republic of Iran Handball Federation

The Iran national handball team is the national handball team of Iran and is controlled by the IR Iran Handball Federation.

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: 03 ! Bronze Medal

2016: 5th place

Asian Games

1986: 5th place

1998: 4th place

2006: 03 ! Bronze Medal

2010: 02 ! Silver Medal

2014: 4th place

West Asian Games

2002: 4th place

2005: 02 ! Silver Medal

Current squad

This is the squad for the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.

Head coach: Borut Maček

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)

Marcus Tatá Oliveira (2017–)

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)

References

Iran men's national handball team Wikipedia

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