Iran 6th World Cup participation, never made it to the next round
For the third time in a row, Iran has World Cup football . The World Championship in Qatar will be the sixth global tournament in which Iran participates. What can we expect from Iran at the 2022 World Cup? In this World Cup Iran preview we discuss the selection and players and we do, partly on the basis of the bookmaker odds , a prediction about Iran's chances at the World Cup in Qatar.
Iran World Cup 2022
Iran has participated in a football World Cup five times before. It is striking that the country has never been able to perform well at the tournament. It never got beyond the group stage.
The Iran World Cup selection usually has talented footballers with a nice technique. Yet the country has never been able to trouble competitors from other continents.
In 2019, a year after the previous 2018 World Cup, the Iranians manage to reach the semifinals of the Asian Cup for the first time in a long time. So this can be the prelude to more success.
In any case, the World Cup selection of Iran gets a heavy blow to the opponents at the World Cup. Iran is classified in Group B with England, Wales and the United States. The latter will be especially piquant, given the political tensions between the two countries. More on this later.
Qualifying Iran World Cup 2022
Iran's qualification for the 2022 World Cup was fairly easy, although there were two defeats in away duels. The two away matches against Iraq and Bahrain were lost. Despite this, Iran finished first in the qualifying group.
After the Qualifying Round, the final round follows in Asia. In Group A of that final round with 6 countries, Iran lost only once. Only South Korea lost 1-0. With 25 points, Iran was ultimately the best country in Asia in the World Cup qualification.
Top Scorers Iran
The Iran World Cup 2022 roster hosts a number of players who score goals. However, that does not immediately mean that Iran has a player in the ranks who will soon be among the top at the world championship.
When looking at the qualification, Sardar Azmoun from Bayer Leverkusen was the big man. He finished third on the top scorers list in Asia with 10 goals. After 62 international matches, Azmoun has 40 goals, third all-time in his country.
Karim ansarifrard and Mehdi Taremi each scored 7 goals in qualifying. They are also among the Top Ten All-Time top scorers of Iran. Ansarifrard scored 29 times and Taremi 27 times so far in the Internationals they played.
Bookmaker odds topscorer
Although the Iranian strikers were well on their way to qualifying, the bookmakers do not believe that a player from Iran will become the top scorer of the World Cup. For example, the number of goals in qualifying is skewed because Cambodia was won twice with double digits, 14-0 and 0-10.
In it, for example, Ansarifrard already scored 5 out of 7 goals. Thus, for the other two, he needed another sixteen matches in the two qualifying rounds of Asia.
That is why on the list of bookmakers such names as Harry Kane and Mbappé score much better in terms of odds 8/1 than players from Iran.
Most likely to win the top scorers title at Iran is footballer Sardar Azmoun with odds of 150/1. Azmoun is also known as the Iranian Messi.
Betting on Iran
According to the bookmakers, Iran is the weakest country in Group B. England , Wales and the United States are all rated higher. At the betting office, the odds are 20/1 for Iran group win. The chances of Iran surviving the group stage World Cup schedule advancing to the eighth final is 18.2%. We therefore advise you not to let Iran win in your World Cup group.
Only four countries are ranked lower than Iran at the World Cup in Qatar. Even countries that finished under Iran in qualifying in Asia are getting better odds now that the tournament is starting, think of Japan and South Korea. If Iran wins the World Cup, you get 500 to 750 times your bet.
The big World Cup 2022 favorites Brazil and France .
Iran vs. United States
Although Iran will take action against England on the opening day, the attention for Iran is still on another country, arch-rival America. On the last matchday of the group stage, Iran will play against the United States in the Al Thumama World Cup stadium .
The last time the two countries played each other was in 2000 in a friendly duel (1-1). The other encounter was at the 1998 World Cup, when Iran won 2-1.
Selection Of Iran
Iran's national coach Dragan Skocic will announce the Iran squad ahead of the World Cup. As soon as this is known, you will find here the complete selection with all Iran football players of the Iranian World Cup selection 2022. Below you can see the unofficial list of player names of the Iran selection players.
Keepers Of Iran
Alireza Beiranvand (Boavista), Hossein Hosseini (Esteghlal), Amir Abedzadeh (Ponferradina)
Defenders Iran
Sadegh Moharrami (Dinamo Zagreb), Aref Gholami (Esteghlal), Milad Mohammadi (AEK Athens), Hossein Kanaanizadegan (Al-Ahli), Farshad Faraji (Persepolis), Majid Hosseini (Kayserispor), Omid Noorafkan (Sepahan), Danial Esmaeilifar (Sepahan)
Midfield Iran
Ehsan Hajsafi (AEK Athens), Saeid Ezatolahi (Al-Gharafa), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Feyenoord), Ahmad Nourollahi (Shabab Al-Ahli), Milad Sarlak (Persepolis), Kamal Kamyabinia (Persepolis), Mehdi Torabi (Persepolis), Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh (Esteghlal), Ali Gholizadeh (Charleroi), Mehdi MEHDIPOUR (Esteghlal)
Iran's Attackers
Allahyar Sayyadmanesh (Hull), Sardar Azmoun (Bayer Leverkusen)
Players of Iran
Iran has produced some good players over the years. For example, Ali Daei was the global international top scorer of all time for many years. His 109 goals are still good for second place behind the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo. However, Daei has not played football for many years. Who are the current football stars of Iran?
Alireza Jahanbakhsh
One name we know all too well in New Zealand is that of Alireza Jahanbakhsh. The Feyenoord winger has been a fixture of the Iranian squad for years. Jahanbakhsh has since scored twelve times for his country. By the way, he often plays in midfield.
At Feyenoord, Jahanbakhsh has been able to break few pots since his arrival, but he is still of the necessary value for his country. Jahanbakhsh will be eager to shine for his country at the 2022 World Cup.
Mehdi Taremi
Mehdi Taremi is a familiar face in the striker position at the Portuguese top club FC Porto. Jahanbakhsh's generation-Mate is also on his way to becoming a hero in his country. As far as he's not already. For example, he scored seven goals in qualifying and has already made it into the top ten goalscorers of all time in his country.
Also in Portugal and in the various dollarpa Cup tournaments, he regularly shows up for the goal. During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he was already there, but did not manage to score.
Eshan Hajsafi
Eshan Hajsafi is perhaps a little less known in dollarpa. That does not mean that the captain in his own country is simply a hero. Hajsafi is under contract with AEK Athens. He is currently the only player in the Iran squad to have played more than 100 internationals. That makes him the most experienced man and he must therefore ensure that ‘Team Iran’ holds its own in the difficult World Cup matches that it will play in Group B.
Iran Football information
Tehran national team
In the early years of the sport of football in Iran was not played with the Iranian selection. Instead, the Tehran XI, or the Tehran team, was sent to international duels in, for example, Azerbaijan. Only in 1941 a national selection was formed.
Top of Asia
Although other countries from Asia showed better performances at the World Cup, Iran is considered a real top country in football Asia. Thus, between 2014 and 2018 it was number 1 in the ranking of the Asian Football Association. No other country has been in first place continuously for so long.
Golden years
Iran experienced its golden years between 1968 and 1988. Then, in six editions in a row, at least the semifinals of the Asian Cup were reached. It was won three times, twice the country was third and once fourth. In 1974, Iran won the Asian Games, and then reached the quarterfinals twice more. In 1978 there was the First World Cup participation for Iran.
Iran World Cup football history
Iran is not a high-flyer in the World Cup. At the first World Cup in 1978, Iran lost 3-0 to New Zealand, played 1-1 to Scotland and lost 4-1 to Peru. The Tournament of the 1978 World Cup was then over and it would take until 1998 before Iran would again participate in a football World Cup.
Victory over America at the 1998 World Cup
The country's greatest success to date at a football World Cup was achieved in France in 1998. It was then won 2-1 by the so hated America. However, Germany and Little Yugoslavia were lost.
World Cup 2018 almost through
In the most recent edition of the World Cup, that of 2018 in Russia, Iran came close to qualifying for the second round. The country took 4 points, more than it had ever done before in the group stage at a World Cup.
Iran was able to win for the second time at a World Cup final tournament at the expense of Morocco. It scored 1-1 in injury time against Portugal in the final group match. Because in the other match Spain scored in injury time, Spain still continued. Iran was 1 point short of being allowed to continue.
Prediction Iran World Cup 2022
Iran has participated in a football World Cup five times before, but was always eliminated immediately. And so will this edition. Iran does not stand a chance in Group B. The chances of advancing to the knockout stage are for competitors from Group B England 94%, Wales 48% and USA 42%. Iran is far below that with an 18% chance.
If Iran is second in the group, it will play the next round against the number 1 in Group A, the group of New Zealand. We can say that in a direct confrontation between New Zealand and Iran, the latter is very likely to fail.
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