IQNA – A ceremony was held in Enghelab (revolution) Square in Tehran on Wednesday, May 13, to see off members of Team Melli, Iran’s national football team, who then left the country to attend the 2026 World Cup.
News ID: 3497459 Publish Date : 2026/05/14
IQNA – The head of the Palestinian Football Federation said efforts for the imposition of sanctions against the Israeli regime’s football federation will continue.
News ID: 3497368 Publish Date : 2026/05/06
IQNA – What initially appeared to be a crude April Fools’ prank turned into a career-ending scandal for a Spanish lower-league club president.
News ID: 3497074 Publish Date : 2026/04/13
IQNA – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola publicly expressed his support for the Palestinian people, drawing attention to the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza during a recent public appearance.
News ID: 3496236 Publish Date : 2026/01/30
IQNA – Pressure is growing on football ’s governing bodies to ban the Israeli regime’s football team over the Zionists’ genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
News ID: 3494772 Publish Date : 2025/09/27
IQNA – The Football Association (FA) has announced that FA Cup matches during Ramadan will include brief stoppages to allow Muslim players to break their fast.
News ID: 3492108 Publish Date : 2025/03/02
IQNA – Patrice Beaumelle, the French football coach currently leading Mouloudia d'Alger in Algeria's premier football league, has embraced Islam.
News ID: 3488111 Publish Date : 2024/04/28
IQNA – José Manuel Ferreira de Morais, the Portuguese coach of Iran’s Sepahan SC, confirmed that he has converted to Islam.
News ID: 3488094 Publish Date : 2024/04/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – French Muslim football er Karim Benzema is suing a far-right politician who had linked him with extremism.
News ID: 3478819 Publish Date : 2022/05/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Former Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf has converted to Islam, according to a post in his Instagram.
News ID: 3478049 Publish Date : 2022/03/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Palestine’s football federation welcomed a move by Spain’s FC Barcelona to refuse to play a friendly match with Israeli team Beitar in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
News ID: 3475281 Publish Date : 2021/07/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A memorial five-a-side football tournament will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, to commemorate one of the victims of the March 15 mosque shootings.
News ID: 3469739 Publish Date : 2019/10/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Senegalese football player cited a verse from the Holy Quran to support his fellow countryman and Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly who has been the target of racist abuse.
News ID: 3467556 Publish Date : 2018/12/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Cut through the bigotry of a vocal minority, and there are some pretty uplifting football chants to be heard in England nowadays.
News ID: 3465267 Publish Date : 2018/02/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Liverpool Football Club fans embraced Mohamed Salah, an Egypt-born player, with a new chant that celebrates the 25-year-old forward's faith.
News ID: 3465206 Publish Date : 2018/02/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Lech Poznan football club's fans in Poland boycotted their team's home Europa League match against Portugese tema Belenenses Thursday.
News ID: 3365196 Publish Date : 2015/09/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) - English football fan Julie Phillips, 51, has been banned from all football stadiums for minimum three years for tearing up a copy of Islam's Holy Book during an English football match and throwing the pieces in the air.
News ID: 2623466 Publish Date : 2014/12/20
An American Muslim football er has been penalized for prostrating after scoring a six-point touchdown in Kansas City Chiefs win over the New England Patriots, sparking condemnations over the unjustified penalty.
News ID: 1455900 Publish Date : 2014/10/01
An entire football team of young Cameroonian football players have declared their conversion to Islam after spending two months at a football training camp in the United Arab Emirates.
News ID: 1450890 Publish Date : 2014/09/17
Ahead of their World Cup showdown against Nigeria, three Bosnia-Herzegovina players joined in Friday prayers and mingled with the local community.
News ID: 1420797 Publish Date : 2014/06/22
