Report from the Iranian FA

History Of Futsal in Iran

Iranian Futsal National Team brilliantly registered its name among the world reputed teams in 1992 in Hong Kong.
In 1995, the Iranian Futsal Committee was established with Mohammad Sadegh Doroudgar as its head in Iran's Football federation in order to continue its activity via planning and the necessary arrangement.
The scheduled programs of Iran's Futsal Committee led the country's Futsal national team to gain good results in international arena.
The most important honors of Iran's Futsal National Team is to overcome the well-known teams such as Italy, Spain, Brazil, Netherlands, Belgium in various international tournaments and obtaining seven Asian championships.
At present, Iranian clubs futsal competition are held in leagues and groups.

The numbers of teams are as follows:
Premiere league: 14 teams
Division A: 16 teams
Division B: 16 teams
Areas league: 48 teams
Youths league: 48 teams
Under 15 years: 31 teams
Under 12 years: 31 teams


National Futsal Championship – Men
2004/2005 -> TAM I. KHODRO Tehran
2003/2004 -> SHENSA Saveh
2002/2003 -> PAS Tehran
2001/2002 -> ESTEGHLAL Tehran
2000/2001 -> ESTEGHLAL Tehran
1999/2000 -> PIMAN
1998/1999 -> PIMAN
1997/1998 -> TEHRAN Province
1996/1997 -> GILAN Province


7th AFC Futsal Championship

(VIETNAM 2005 )

Iran - Bhutan 27-2
Kuwait - Iran 0-1
Iran - Lebanon 10-3
Iran - Japan 1-3
Iran - Thailand 3-3
Uzbekistan - Iran 1-4
Iran - Japan 2-0


AFC Futsal Championship

Futsal Championship 2005: 1.Iran 2.Japan
Futsal Championship 2004: 1.Iran 2.Japan
Futsal Championship 2003: 1.Iran 2. Japan
Futsal Championship 2002: 1.Iran 2. Japan
Futsal Championship 2001: 1.Iran 2. Uzbekistan
Futsal Championship 2000: 1.Iran 2. Uzbekistan
Futsal Championship 1999: 1.Iran 2. Korea Republic


Association Information

No. 2/2 Third St.
Seoul Ave.
TEHRAN 19958-73591
Tel:+98-21/88212200

Foundation year 1995
President: DEROUDGAR Mohammad
General Secretary: Kharati Mehdi
Men's Coach: Jurandir Azeredo
Expert: Dorodean Morteza – Asghari Nejad Mansoor



History Of Futsal
Keen to emphasise the South American roots of a sport that the likes of Ronaldo, Denilson and Roberto Carlos all grew up playing, Futsal was the name chosen by FIFA for the only version of 5-aside football that it supports, when it took over as the governing body of the sport in 1989.

After the first FIFA Futsal World Championships that took place in the Netherlands in the same year, Futsal began to increase in stature as more and more Associations began to adopt the sport, keen to take advantage of it’s benefits in developing players for the bigger game. Individual close ball skills are developed through an increased number of touches during the game, whilst players are nearly always placed in reduced space situations and are constantly forced to make decisions demanding speed of thought and quick reflexes.

Essentially 5-aside but with some twists on how the game is currently played across most of England, Futsal has been designed to provide a high paced, energetic, fast flowing game for spectators at the same time as allowing players to be at their most creative by protecting those showing attacking flair.

The end-to-end, non-stop, goalmouth action has proven a hit with the fans as the number of professional leagues in the world game grows every year. Russia, Portugal, Italy, Brazil and Argentina all have professional leagues along with Spain, the current World Champions, whose league regularly attracts over thirty thousand spectators a week to it’s games.

Futsal is also set to explode onto the football scene in Asia with Iran already boasting a professional league and countries such as Japan, Malaysia, Thailand all keen to follow. Chinese Taipei will also be hosting the fifth FIFA World Championships in December 2004, which will see almost 90 associations take part in the qualifying stages, an increase on the 64 that took part in the qualifying for the 2000 Championships held in Guatemala.

Futsal fever is currently encapsulating most of the globe but it owes a great deal of its success and all of its appeal to the streets and playgrounds of South America were the game was first conceived




Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com