The Most Famous
Soccer Players from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranians Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 21,273 Soccer Players, 105 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 47th most number of Soccer Players behind Senegal and Costa Rica.
Top 10 Iranian Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Iranians Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Iranians Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Iranians Soccer Players.
- #1
Ali Daei
b. 1969
HPI 61.0548 langsIranian footballer and coach
- #2
Mehdi Taremi
b. 1992
HPI 55.5740 langsIranian footballer (born 1992)
- #3
Andranik Eskandarian
b. 1951
HPI 55.3221 langsIranian footballer
- #4
Nasser Hejazi
1949 - 2011
HPI 55.1321 langsIranian footballer and coach
- #5
Ali Parvin
b. 1946
HPI 54.6017 langsIranian soccer player and coach (born 1946)
- #6
Sardar Azmoun
b. 1995
HPI 51.9045 langsIranian footballer
- #7
Iraj Danaeifard
1951 - 2018
HPI 51.0918 langsIranian footballer
- #8
Mehdi Mahdavikia
b. 1977
HPI 51.0633 langsIranian footballer
- #9
Amir Ghalenoei
b. 1963
HPI 50.5017 langsIranian football coach and former player (born 1963)
- #10
Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
1950 - 2014
HPI 50.1415 langsIranian footballer (1950-2014)
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Iranians Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1990s(33)
1980s(35)
1970s(23)
1940s(2)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.
