Iran national baseball team

Prior to the Iranian Revolution, American high schools, such as Tehran American School and Community School, Tehran, provided extracurricular activities with various sports teams such as baseball, American football, and cheerleading. Following the revolution, baseball waned down in the country before being re-organized in 1991, with an estimated 500 players, coaches and umpires belonging to the national association.^[2][3][4]

Iran baseball committee was founded in 1992. In 1993 it became a federation and continued to function as a federation until 2010, when it became part of Sports Associations Federation. This was largely caused by the inactivity of its national team. Currently Baseball is played in 12 Provinces in Iran. Iran has one stadium specifically designed for baseball in the city of Karaj. From 1994 until 2009, every year teams representing their provinces participated in a national championship.

In 2010, the National Championship games were replaced by a Club Championship League. Club teams were split into a North and South conference with the top two teams in each conference advancing to the playoffs. Since the inception of this league, Tehran's Azarakhsh Club, Bushehr's Naderi Club and Kerman's Mes Club have been able to each win 1 championship.^[5]

Iran's national team has participated in 5 Asia Cups (1999, 2006, 2012, 2013 and 2015) and has been able to win the silver medal and bronze medal in the Western Division in 2012 and 2015.

Iran has won 134 baseball matches and lost 68 baseball matches.^[6]

The most notable baseball player of partial Iranian origin is Yu Darvish who was born in Japan to a Japanese mother but has an Iranian father and plays in MLB, although he has not yet received an invitation to the national team.

Pos.	No.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Bats	Throws	Club
		Moein Hassani				Kerman
		Behnam Ghasemi	21			Isfahan
		Nima Bagherinia				Isfahan
		Rajabali Barzegar				Semnan
		Ali bahram masiri				Hormozgan
		Kaveh Chah Bejari				Bushehr
		Abtin Nakhjavanpour				Alborz
		Mohammad Goodarzi				Alborz
		Mehran Sajjadpour				Alborz
		Davoud Jabari				Alborz
		Mojtaba Gordan				Semnan
		Mohammad Ali Kalantari				Semnan
		Jalal Changizi				Semnan
		Jalil Changizi				Semnan
		Iman Khaligh Saket				Gilan
		Hamid Mohammadi				Gilan
		Amir Khaligh Saket				Gilan
		Kian Naddafi				Gilan
		Reham Borhani				Gilan
		Amirmohammad pirasteh				Alborz
		Ahmadreza Derayesh				Isfahan
		Keivan Rana				Bushehr
		Yasin Sharifi Ziyarati				Bushehr
		Yasser Sedighipour				Isfahan
		Mohammad Hossein Safdari				Qom
		Hessam Arefzadeh				Bushehr
		Reza Shabani				Bushehr
		Armin Gharibi				Bushehr
		Mehdi Vaezzadeh				Bushehr
		Mehdi Masoumi				Bushehr
		Amir Bazhvand				Tehran
		Mehrdad				Bushehr
		Mohsen Mohammadi				Bushehr
		Majid Mohammadi Senej				Qom
		Seyed Abdollah Mohimian Azad				Bushehr
		Nima Vaghari				Khorasan Razavi
		Mohammad Reza Arabi				Khorasan Razavi
		Reza Yousefi				Khorasan Razavi

• Mehrdad Hajian, pre-2009
• Gerardo Yassel Cabrera Moreno, January 2009^[7]
• Julio Alberto Hernandez Coste, April 2009^[8][9]
• Mehrdad Hajian, 2012-2014^[10][11]
• Toma Irokawa, January 2015-July 2015^{[12][13][14][15]}

Host/Year	Round/Rank
1995, Manila	Did not enter
1997, Bangkok	Did not enter
1999, Chandigarh	Participated
2001, Jakarta	Did not enter
2002, Bangkok	Did not enter
2004, Bangkok	Did not enter
2006, Rawalpindi	5th (out of 5 teams)
2009, Bangkok	Did not enter
2010, Islamabad	Did not enter
2012, Lahore	Third place[16]
2013, Lahore	Did not enter
2015, Islamabad	Runner-up
2015, Islamabad	Third place

2015 Presidential Cup was an international tournament hosted by Iran, it was played from September 9–13 at Azadi Sport Complex which was won by India, other participants were Iraq^[17]

Host/Year	Round/Rank
2015, Tehran	Runner-up