Ali DaeiMehdi TaremiAndranik EskandarianNasser Hejazi
Sardar AzmounIraj DanaeifardMehdi MahdavikiaAmir Ghalenoei

The Most Famous

Soccer Players from Iran

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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. #1
    Photo of Ali Daei

    Ali Daei

    b. 1969

    HPI 61.0548 langs

    Iranian footballer and coach

  2. #2
    Photo of Mehdi Taremi

    Mehdi Taremi

    b. 1992

    HPI 55.5740 langs

    Iranian footballer (born 1992)

  3. #5
    Photo of Ali Parvin

    Ali Parvin

    b. 1946

    HPI 54.6017 langs

    Iranian soccer player and coach (born 1946)

  4. #9
    Photo of Amir Ghalenoei

    Amir Ghalenoei

    b. 1963

    HPI 50.5017 langs

    Iranian football coach and former player (born 1963)

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.

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.

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