{"id":55503,"date":"2026-10-22T19:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55503"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:29:55","slug":"golmohammadi-appointed-irans-u23-football-team-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/10\/22\/golmohammadi-appointed-irans-u23-football-team-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Golmohammadi appointed Iran\u2019s U23 football team head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Yahya Golmohammadi has officially been appointed head coach of Iran\u2019s U23 national football team following the termination of his contract with Iraqi club Duhok.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hours after the termination of his contract with the Iraqi side, the Football Federation of Iran announced Golmohammadi\u2019s appointment to lead the U23 national team.<\/p>\n<p>Hossein Abdi was the most recent coach of Iran\u2019s U23 team but stepped down after the team\u2019s group-stage elimination at the Nagoya Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>Golmohammadi has previously coached several Iranian clubs, including Saba Battery, Zob Ahan and Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old coach enjoyed considerable success with Persepolis, winning multiple Persian Gulf Pro League titles and leading the Tehran-based club to the final of the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Golmohammadi will now take charge of Iran\u2019s U23 national team as the Team look to strengthen their preparations for upcoming international competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Yahya Golmohammadi has officially been appointed head coach of Iran\u2019s U23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":81,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55504,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55503\/revisions\/55504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}