Iran national football team records

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This article lists various football records in relation to the Iran national football team. The page is updated where necessary after each Iran match, and is correct as of January 9, 2008.

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[edit] Appearances

Most appearances 
Ali Daei, 149, 1993 - 2006
Other centurions 
Ali Karimi, 105, 1998 - 2008
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 102, 1996 - 2008
Most consecutive appearances 
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Most appearances as a substitute 
?
Most appearances as a substitute without ever starting a game 
?
Longest Iranian career 
Mohammad Panjali, 13 years and 5 months
Shortest Iranian career 
?
Youngest player
?
Oldest player 
?
Oldest debutant 
?
Most appearances at the World Cup finals 
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 6 Games, 1998, 2006
Most appearances without ever playing at the World Cup finals  
?
Most non-playing selections for the World Cup finals 
?
Oldest player to feature at the World Cup finals 
Ali Daei, 37 years, 2006
Oldest outfield player to feature at the World Cup finals 
?
Youngest player to feature at the World Cup finals 
Hossein Kaebi, 20 years and 9 months, 2006 FIFA World Cup.
First player to debut at the World Cup finals 
?
Most appearances at the Asian Championship finals 
?
Most consecutive appearances at the Asian Championship finals 
?
Most appearances without ever playing at the Asian Championship finals 
?
Appearances at three Asian Championship final tournaments 
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 4 AC 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
Most non-playing selections for the Asian Championship finals 
?
Oldest player to feature at the Asian Championship finals 
Ali Daei, 35 years, 2004
Oldest outfield player to feature at the Asian Championship finals 
?
Youngest player to feature at the Asian Championship finals 
?
First player to debut at the Asian Championship finals 
?
Most appearances on aggregate at the World Cup and Asian Championship finals 
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 2 World Cups 1998 & 2006 and 4 AC 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
Most appearances without ever playing at the World Cup finals or the Asian Championship finals 
?
Fewest appearances while still playing at the World Cup finals and Asian Championship finals 
?
Most appearances without ever being in a World Cup or Asian Championship finals squad 
?
Most consecutive years of appearances 
?
Longest wait between appearances 
?
Most tournaments appeared in consecutively
?
Appearances in three separate decades
Mohammad Panjali 70s,80s,90s
First player to make tournament appearances in three separate decades
Mohammad Panjali
First appearance by a player who had never played for an Iranian club 
Ferydoon Zandi, vs Bahrain on February 9, 2005
First player to debut as a substitute 
Mohammad Mohajer, on August 25, 1941 vs Afghanistan
Last appearance by a player from outside the top division of a country 
?
Most appearances per Iranian club 
Most appearances with non-Iranian 

[edit] Goals

First goal 
?
Most goals 
Ali Daei, 109, 1993 - 2006
Most goals in competitive matches 
?
Most goals in a match 
Karim Bagheri, 7 goals, vs Maldives on 02-Jun-97
Four goals in a match 
?
Three goals in a match 
?
Scoring in most consecutive matches 
?
Most goals on debut 
?
Most goals in a single World Cup tournament 
?
Most goals in total at World Cup tournaments 
?
Most goals in a single World Cup qualifying campaign 
?
Most goals in a single World Cup finals match 
?
Most goals in a single World Cup qualifying match 
?
First goal in a World Cup finals match 
Iraj Danaeifard, 1978 FIFA World Cup vs Scotland.
First goal in a World Cup qualifying campaign 
?
Oldest goalscorer at the World Cup finals 
Yahya Golmohammadi, 35 years, 2006
Youngest goalscorer at the World Cup finals 
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 20 years, 1998
Most goals in a single Asian Championship tournament 
?
Most goals in total at Asian Championship tournaments 
?
Most goals in a single Asian Championship qualifying campaign 
?
Most goals in a single Asian Championship finals match 
?
Most goals in a single Asian Championship qualifying match 
?
First goal in an Asian Championship finals match 
?
First goal in an Asian Championship qualifying campaign 
?
Oldest goalscorer at the Asian Championship finals 
Ali Daei, 35 years, 2004
Youngest goalscorer at the Asian Championship finals 
?
Most goals in a single calendar year
?
Most goals scored from penalties 
?
Most goals in penalty shoot-outs [1] 
?
Most goals scored by a defender 
?
Oldest goalscorer 
?
Youngest goalscorer 
?
First goal by a substitute 
?
Fastest goal from kickoff 
?
Fastest goal at Azadi 
?
Fastest goal at the World Cup finals 
?
Fastest goal at the Asian Championship finals 
?
Fastest goal by a substitute 
?
Most appearances for an outfield player without ever scoring 
?
Goals in three separate decades
?
Most consecutive goalscoring tournaments
?
First Iranian goalscorer at the Azadi Stadium  
?

[edit] Captains

First captain 
?
Most appearances as captain 
?
Youngest captain 
?

[edit] Red cards

Most red cards 
?
List of all Iranian players sent off 

[edit] Miscellaneous

First substitute 
?
Club providing the most Iranian internationals in total  
?
Non-Iranian club providing the most Iranian internationals in total 
?
Most appearances on aggregate from one club's players 
?
Most goals on aggregate from one club's players 
?
Most penalty saves 
?
Most penalty saves in shoot outs 
?
Most penalty misses  
?
Shortest player 
?
Tallest player 
?
Heaviest player 
?
Longest-lived player 
?
Most clubs represented by one player in an Iranian career
?
Iranian players who later became manager/head coach 
?

[edit] References

  1. ^ Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs do not count on a player's overall scoring tally.

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