The president of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has walked out of an annual congress meeting of the world’s football governing body, FIFA, in support of Palestinians suffering Israel’s months-long war on Gaza.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has supported Palestine's proposal to suspend Israel from the world's football governing body, FIFA, over the regime's criminal war in the Gaza Strip.

Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran asked FIFA and football unions to take immediate and serious actions to suspend the Israeli regime from all activities related to football.

Tasnim Persepolis has faced a punishment from FIFA for non-payment of wages owed to former forward Mario Budimir. The Croatian player joined Persepolis in January 2019 until the end of the season but Persepolis did not pay him his wage. Budimir then filed a complaint for nonpayment of wages, with FIFA, against his former club. FIFA has ordered ...

Reuters - Irans Football Federation has given world governing body FIFA a written commitment that women will be allowed to attend matches in the domestic club league, a source with knowledge of the discussions said on Friday. In October, Iranian women watched the countrys national team for the first time in 40 years, when they were given access ...

Reuters - Iranian women entered the countrys national stadium in Tehran on Thursday after being able to purchase tickets for a national team game for the first time in 40 years. Women have been banned from watching mens games since shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution with only a few exceptions made for small groups on rare occasions. But ...

The New York Times | Tariq Panja: When Irans national soccer team takes the field on Thursday for an otherwise humdrum World Cup qualifier, there will be outsize interest not in the action on the field but in who is seated in the stands. For the first time in almost four decades, women will be allowed to buy tickets and attend a match. The game ...

AFP | Amir Havasi: Thousands of Iranian women fans are to attend a football match freely Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial male-only policy. The Islamic republic has barred female spectators from football and other stadiums for around 40 years, with clerics arguing they must ...

IRNA- FIFA has not given any ultimatum to Iran over the presence of women in football stadiums, a senior Iranian sport official said on Tuesday. Deputy Minister of Sport and Youth for Developing Women Sports and Managing Director of the Girls' Physical Education, Mahin Farhadi-Zad said to Irna on Tuesday. No deadline has been sent in this regard,...

AP Former Iran coach Carlos Queiroz has filed a complaint to FIFA saying the Iranian federation still owes him salary from his spell in charge of the national team. The Portuguese coach led Iran for eight years until January when the team was eliminated from the Asian Cup in the semifinals. He has since been hired by Colombia ahead of the Copa ...

MNA According to the latest FIFA world ranking, the national Iranian football team has remained as the best team in Asia above the Australia and Japan as well as the AFC Asian Cup champion Qatar. According to the AFC Asian Cup website, the Islamic Republic of Iran remained as the Continent's highest ranked team while AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 champions ...

Reuters - Global soccer body FIFA has been urged by its own human rights advisory panel to give Iran a deadline for allowing women to watch soccer matches. In a report published Monday, the panel said that Irans ban on women fans violated FIFAs own ethics code which specifically prohibits discrimination including on the basis of gender. Iranian ...

Tasnim AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino in welcoming the presence of more than 1,000 female fans at the Azadi Stadium for the 2018 AFC Champions League final on Saturday. After the final won 2-0 on aggregate by Japans Kashima Antlers against Persepolis of Iran, Shaikh Salman said, "Football ...

Tasnim Iranian woman referee Gelareh Nazemi sees herself like a pioneer. Nazemi has been selected to referee the final of the Youth Olympics Women's Futsal Tournament Buenos Aires 2018 between Portugal and Japan, which takes place on Wednesday in the Main Futsal Hall. FIFA.com chatted with the Iranian 34-year-old official to find out a little ...

Press TV - Iranian referee Alireza Faghani together with linesmen Reza Sokhandan and Mohammad Mansouri will officiate the 2018 Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Group E match between the Brazil mens national football team, nicknamed Seleo(The Squad), and Serbia. The worlds soccer governing body has picked the trio ...

IFP - Irans Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Massoud Soltanifar has called on the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to release the Islamic Republics frozen money as soon as possible. In a Sunday meeting with FIFA Secretary-General Fatma Samoura on the sidelines of the World Cup 2018 in Russia, Soltanifar thanked ...

IRNA - Iran's minister of sports and youth on Sunday conferred with secretary general of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). During the meeting, Masoud Soltanifar praised Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura' attempts to help secure presence of Muslim football players in the world championships while wearing Hijab. He expressed the ...

RFERL |Frud Bezhan: Iran's national team will lock horns with the heavyweights of soccer at the World Cup in Russia this month. But before the clashes begin, Team Melli is in a gift-giving mood. The squad plans to present silk Persian carpets to FIFA, the world governing body of soccer; the Russian Football Union; and the national teams of Spain,...

FNA- Iran's National Football Team Head Coach Carlos Queiroz underlined he will in a letter complain against the Nike at the Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) for the company's ban on the supply of its products to Iranian footballers on the eve of the 2018 World Cup. "The football players get used to their sports equipment and ...

Tasnim - Iran national football team maintained its spot at 33 in FIFA world rankings released on Thursday. Carlos Queirozs team remained the top Asian football nation, followed by Australia at 37th, Japan at 55thand South Korea at 59th. Germany continued its reign as the best team in the world rankings, followed by Brazil, Portugal, Argentina ...