Greatest Team Melli Players of All Time

[FeLFeL]

I don't believe in putting one great over another because each era is different. Probably leaving a few good ones out, but this list covers the majority of TM greats from my perspective:

GK * Nasser Hejazi * Ahmadreza Abedzadeh * Alireza Beiranvand *

RB * Javad Zarincheh * Hossein Kaebi * Ramin Rezaian *

CB * Nader Mohammad Khani * Mohammad Khakpour * Mehdi Pashazadeh * Afshin Peyrovani * Rahman Rezaei * Jalal Hosseini * Hadi Aghili * Mohammad Nosrati * Hossein Kanaani *

LB * Reza Shahroudi * Mehrdad Pooladi * Milad Mohammadi *

CDM * Majid Namjoo Motlagh * Karim Bagheri * Javad Nekounam * Andranik Teymourian * Saeid Ezatolahi *

RM/RW * Mehdi Mahdavikia * Alireza Jahanbakhsh *

LM/LW * Mehrdad Minavand * Alireza Vahedi-Nikbakht * Fereydoon Zandi * Ehsan Hajsafi * Vahid Amiri *

CM/CAM * Parviz Ghelichkhani * Ali Parvin * Sirous Ghayeghran * Hamid Derakhshan * Ali Karimi * Masoud Shojaie * Ashkan Dejagah *

ST * Hassan Roshan * Farshad Pious * Ali Daie * Khodadad Azizi * Vahid Hashemian * Reza Ghoochannejhad * Mehdi Taremi * Sardar Azmoun *

[oracle]

Name as many as you'd like. I don't believe in putting one great over another because each era is different. Probably leaving a few good ones off, but this should cover the majority of greats from my perspective:

GK * Nasser Hejazi * Ahmadreza Abedzadeh * Alireza Beiranvand *

RB * Javad Zarincheh * Hossein Kaebi * Ramin Rezaian *

CB * Nader Mohammad Khani * Mohammad Khakpour * Rahman Rezaei * Mehdi Pashazadeh * Afshin Peyrovani * Jalal Hosseini * Hadi Aghili * Hossein Kanaani *

LB * Reza Shahroudi * Mehrdad Pooladi * Milad Mohammadi *

CDM * Majid Namjoo Motlagh * Karim Bagheri * Javad Nekounam * Andranik Teymourian * Saeid Ezatolahi *

RM/RW * Mehdi Mahdavikia * Alireza Jahanbakhsh *

LM/LW * Mehrdad Minavand * Mehrzad Madanchi * Fereydoon Zandi * Ehsan Hajsafi * Vahid Amiri *

CM/CAM * Parviz Ghelichkhani * Ali Parvin * Sirous Ghayeghran * Hamid Derakhshan * Ali Karimi * Masoud Shojaie * Ashkan Dejagah *

ST * Hassan Roshan * Farshad Pious * Ali Daie * Khodadad Azizi * Vahid Hashemian * Reza Ghoochannejhad * Mehdi Taremi * Sardar Azmoun *

Iran overall not a goalie nation.
HEJAZI ,
ABEDZADEH
BIRAVAND
for sure top 3
Rahmati in my opinion cracks top 5.

[Kavian]

List is missing so many great players from 1970s.

just to name a few;

Ghasem pour
Mehdi monajati
Jafar Kashani
Ebrahim Ashtiani
Hossain Faraki
Reza Adelkhani
Ali Nazari
Andranik Eskandarian
Alireza Khorshidi
Abdoulahi

My memory is fading but at least a dozen more
.

[Ali Doust]

You listed Madanchi but not Nikbakht? I think Nikbakht is the best LW we ever had.

[FeLFeL]

You listed Madanchi but not Nikbakht? I think Nikbakht is the best LW we ever had.

Fair point. Nikbakht > Madanchi. List updated.

I wouldn't call him the best LW we've ever had though. From a LM defensive standpoint, that's definitely Hajsafi. Nikbakht was also the back-up to Minavand during most of his caeer. I'm trying to strictly base this list off number of caps/goals and level of performance in TM. From what I recall, Nikbakht scored some nice goals for TM and had some great games but was never a key player like he was at Esteghlal. But you're right he still ranks above Madanchi with more caps and goals.


LM/LW gave me the most headache in general. The players I listed were all solid but none really stands out as a clear-cut star. I had Nikbakht on there before but removed him when I moved Hajsafi up from LB, I didn't want to just list every single player that's played on the left wing from the last three decades.

[Pluto2000]

greatest midfielder is obviously our lord and savior Roozbeh Cheshmi