Ebrahim Raisi received members of the national soccer team ahead of their trip to Qatar for attending the World Cup 2022 tournament. At the continental level, homeland has won three Asian Cup championships in 1968, 1972 and 1976. The nation’s best performance at the Olympics was reaching the quarterfinals at the 1976 Montreal Games.
At the FIFA World Cup, homeland have qualified six times (1978, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2018 and 2022) but have never progressed beyond the group stages; they have won only two matches: against the United States in 1998 and Morocco in 2018.The Football Federation was founded in 1920.
