Mehdi Mahdavikia - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding Iranian player, who obtained 110 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Caps Goals    Date      Venue           Opponent       Score    Competition  
  1	      5-12-96	Dubai   	Iraq    	1-2	Asian Nations Cup
  2	     16-12-96	Dubai   	South Korea	6-2	Asian Nations Cup
  3	     18-12-96	Abu Dhabi	Saudi Arabia  	0-0 [1]	Asian Nations Cup
  4	     11- 4-97	Kuwait City	Kuwait   	2-0	
  5   1	 1   21- 4-97	Tabriz  	Kenya   	3-0	
  6   1	 2    2- 6-97	Damascus	Maldives       17-0	World Cup Qualifier
  7	 2    4- 6-97	Damascus	Kyrgyzstan	7-0	World Cup Qualifier
  8	 2    6- 6-97	Damascus	Syria   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
  9	 2    9- 6-97	Tehran  	Kyrgyzstan	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
 10   1	 3   11- 6-97	Tehran  	Maldives	9-0	World Cup Qualifier
 11	 3   13- 6-97	Tehran  	Syria   	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 12	 3   17- 8-97	Toronto 	Canada  	1-0	
 13	 3    2- 9-97	Abu Dhabi	UA Emirates	1-3	
 14   2	 5   13- 9-97	Dalian  	China   	4-2	World Cup Qualifier
 15	 5   19- 9-97	Tehran  	Saudi Arabia	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 16	 5   26- 9-97	Kuwait City	Kuwait  	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 17	 5    3-10-97	Tehran  	Qatar   	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
 18	 5   17-10-97	Tehran  	China   	4-1	World Cup Qualifier
 19	 5   24-10-97	Riyadh  	Saudi Arabia	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 20	 5   31-10-97	Tehran  	Kuwait   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 21	 5    7-11-97	Doha    	Qatar   	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 22	 5   16-11-97	Johor Bahru	Japan   	2-3	World Cup Qualifier
 23	 5   22-11-97	Tehran  	Australia	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 24	 5   29-11-97	Melbourne	Australia	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 25	 5   28- 1-98	Hong Kong	Nigeria 	0-1	Carlsberg Cup
 26   1	 6   31- 1-98	Hong Kong	Chile   	1-1 [2] Carlsberg Cup
 27	 6   20- 4-98	Tehran  	Hungary 	0-2	LG Cup
 28	 6   22- 4-98	Tehran  	Jamaica 	1-0	LG Cup
 29	 6    3- 6-98	Rijeka  	Croatia 	0-2	
 30	 6   14- 6-98	Saint-Etienne	Yugoslavia	0-1	World Cup
 31   1	 7   21- 6-98	Lyon    	United States	2-1	World Cup
 32	 7   25- 6-98	Montpellier	Germany 	0-2	World Cup
 33	 7   13-10-98	Kuwait City	Kuwait  	0-3	
 34	 7    1-12-98	Si Sa Kat	Kazakhstan	2-0	Asian Games
 35	 7    5-12-98	Si Sa Kat	Laos    	6-1	Asian Games
 36	 7    8-12-98	Bangkok 	Oman     	2-4	Asian Games
 37	 7   10-12-98	Bangkok 	Tajikistan	5-0	Asian Games
 38	 7   12-12-98	Bangkok 	China   	2-1	Asian Games
 39	 7   14-12-98	Bangkok 	Uzbekistan	4-0	Asian Games
 40	 7   16-12-98	Bangkok 	China   	1-0	Asian Games
 41	 7   19-12-98	Bangkok 	Kuwait  	2-0	Asian Games
 42	 7    8- 9-99	Yokohama	Japan   	1-1	
 43	 7   10-10-99	København	Denmark 	0-0	
 44	 7    9- 1-00	Oakland 	Mexico  	1-2 
 45   1	 8   16- 1-00	Pasadena	United States	1-1	
 46	 8   22- 3-00	Nicosia 	Cyprus  	0-0	
 47   1	 9   31- 3-00	Aleppo  	Maldives	8-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 48	 9    2- 4-00	Aleppo  	Syria   	1-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 49	 9    4- 4-00	Aleppo  	Bahrain 	0-1	Asian Cup Qualifier
 50	 9    9- 4-00	Tehran  	Bahrain 	3-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 51	 9   11- 4-00	Tehran  	Syria   	1-1	Asian Cup Qualifier
 52	 9   13- 4-00	Tehran  	Maldives	3-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 53	 9    1- 9-00	Wien    	Austria 	1-5	
 54	 9   12-10-00	Beirut  	Lebanon 	4-0	Asian Nations Cup
 55	 9   15-10-00	Beirut  	Thailand	1-1	Asian Nations Cup
 56	 9   18-10-00	Sidon   	Iraq    	1-0	Asian Nations Cup
 57	 9   23-10-00	Tripoli 	South Korea	1-2	Asian Nations Cup
 58	 9   15- 8-01	Bratislava	Slovakia	4-3	
 59	 9   24- 8-01	Tehran  	Saudi Arabia	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 60	 9    1- 9-01	Bangkok 	Thailand	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 61	 9    7- 9-01	Baghdad 	Iraq    	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 62	 9   14- 9-01	Tehran  	Bahrain 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 63	 9   28- 9-01	Jeddah  	Saudi Arabia	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 64	 9    5-10-01	Tehran  	Thailand	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 65   1	10   12-10-01	Tehran  	Iraq    	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
 66	10   19-10-01	Manama  	Bahrain 	1-3	World Cup Qualifier
 67	10   10-11-01	Dublin  	Ireland 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
 68	10   15-11-01	Tehran  	Ireland 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 69	10   12-10-03	Tehran  	New Zealand	3-0	AFC-OFC Cup
 70	10   12-11-03	Tehran  	North Korea     3-0 [3]	Asian Cup Qualifier
 71	10   19-11-03	Beirut  	Lebanon 	3-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 72   1 11   18- 2-04   Tehran          Qatar           3-1     World Cup Qualifier
 73     11    9- 6-04   Tehran          Jordan          0-1     World Cup Qualifier
 74     11   20- 7-04   Chongqing       Thailand        3-0     Asian Nations Cup
 75     11   24- 7-04   Chongqing       Oman            2-2     Asian Nations Cup
 76     11   28- 7-04   Chongqing       Japan           0-0     Asian Nations Cup
 77     11   31- 7-04   Jinan           South Korea     4-3     Asian Nations Cup
 78     11    3- 8-04   Beijing         China           1-1 [4] Asian Nations Cup
 79     11    6- 8-04   Beijing         Bahrain         4-2     Asian Nations Cup
 80     11    9-10-04   Tehran          Germany         0-2
 81     11   13-10-04   Doha            Qatar           3-2     World Cup Qualifier
 82     11    9- 2-05   Manama          Bahrain         0-0     World Cup Qualifier
 83     11   25- 3-05   Tehran          Japan           2-1     World Cup Qualifier
 84   1 12   30- 3-05   Pyongyang       North Korea     2-0     World Cup Qualifier
 85     12   29- 5-05   Tehran          Azerbaijan      2-1
 86     12    3- 6-05   Tehran          North Korea     1-0     World Cup Qualifier
 87     12    8- 6-05   Tehran          Bahrain         1-0     World Cup Qualifier
 88     12   13-11-05   Tehran          Togo            2-0     LG Cup
 89     12   11- 6-06   Nürnberg        Mexico          1-3     World Cup
 90     12   17- 6-06   Frankfurt       Portugal        0-2     World Cup
 91     12   21- 6-06   Leipzig         Angola          1-1     World Cup
 92     12   16- 8-06   Tehran          Syria           1-1     Asian Cup Qualifier
 93     12    2- 9-06   Seoul           South Korea     1-1     Asian Cup Qualifier
 94     12    6- 9-06   Aleppo          Syria           2-0     Asian Cup Qualifier
 95     12   11-10-06   Taipei          Taiwan          2-0     Asian Cup Qualifier
 96     12   24- 3-07   Doha            Qatar           1-0
 97     12    2- 7-07   Tehran          Jamaica         8-1
 98     12   11- 7-07   Kuala Lumpur    Uzbekistan      2-1     Asian Nations Cup
 99     12   15- 7-07   Kuala Lumpur    China           2-2     Asian Nations Cup
100     12   18- 7-07   Kuala Lumpur    Malaysia        2-0     Asian Nations Cup
101     12   22- 7-07   Kuala Lumpur    South Korea     0-0 [5] Asian Nations Cup
102     12    6- 2-08   Tehran          Syria           0-0     World Cup Qualifier
103   1 13   15-10-08   Tehran          North Korea     2-1	World Cup Qualifier
104     13   19-11-08   Dubai           UA Emirates     1-1	World Cup Qualifier
105     13   23- 3-09	Kuwait City	Kuwait   	1-0
106     13   28- 3-09   Tehran          Saudi Arabia    1-2	World Cup Qualifier
107     13    1- 6-09   Qinhuangdao     China           0-1
108     13    6- 6-09   Pyongyang       North Korea     0-0	World Cup Qualifier
109     13   10- 6-09   Tehran          UA Emirates     1-0	World Cup Qualifier
110     13   17- 6-09   Seoul           South Korea     1-1 	World Cup Qualifier

[1] Iran lost 3-4 on penalty kicks.
[2] Iran won 4-2 on penalty kicks.
[3] match abandoned at 1-0 in 61' and awarded 3-0 to Iran
[4] Iran lost 3-4 on penalty kicks.
[5] Iran lost 2-4 on penalty kicks.

Remark: the matches against Ecuador Olympic (2-1, 12- 1-00 in Los Angeles) and
        Ghana U-23 (4-2, 28- 6-07) are not considered full internationals and
        are therefore not included here.

Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
   110    56   30   24  210- 103     142      64.55

Types of Goals and Matches

                     Goals  Matches
Friendlies              2      19
World Cup Qualifiers    8      42
World Cup               1       6
Asian Championship             17
Asian Championship Q.   1      12
Asian Games                     8	
AFC-OFC Cup	                1
Other Tournaments       1       5

Total                  13     110



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Prepared and maintained by Roberto Mamrud for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Roberto Mamrud (roberto.mamrud@gmail.com)
Last updated: 23 Jun 2021

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