Iran’s women’s national team fell 1-0 to Uzbekistan in a friendly in Tashkent on Tuesday, with Ilvina Ablyakimova scoring the ...

Iranian women have attended their first top-level league game in almost 40 years, a step hailed as a major victory by reformist newspapers in the country. Tehran protests: why are Iranians angry? What ...

Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy. Iranian ...

Iranian women watch the World Cup Group B soccer match between Portugal and Iran at Azadi stadium in Tehran [Courtesy] Thousands of Iranian women fans are to attend a football match freely today for ...

The team will face Russia at Tehran's Azadi stadium in a friendly match as part of the run-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, football federation chief Mehdi Taj told ISNA. Only female spectators ...

Dec 15 (Reuters) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino believes the global governing body's policy of engagement with Iran over the treatment of women in football is bearing fruit after some were allowed ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Female soccer fans in Iran claimed a small win Thursday in their long campaign to be allowed into stadiums to watch men’s games after decades of near total exclusion and harassment. A ...

Iranian football fans hold up the national flag during Asian Cup semi-final against Qatar in Doha in February — HECTOR RETAMAL Excitement is running high among fans of Tehran's two football giants ...