IRNA - FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Wednesday described the 1st presence of Iranian women at Azadi stadium as a very significant turning point in the year 2019. He termed 2019 as the year of women, adding necessary steps were taken on women's contribution to football during the year. In 2019, female spectators participated at Iran's Azadi ...

Reuters - Irans Football Federation has given world governing body FIFA a written commitment that women will be allowed to attend matches in the domestic club league, a source with knowledge of the discussions said on Friday. In October, Iranian women watched the countrys national team for the first time in 40 years, when they were given access ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: I just cannot believe how much we shouted and cheered, Maryam, 27, told Al-Monitor as she walked out of Tehran's Azadi Stadium. I even cried at some point; I was so moved. On Oct. 10, the Iranian national soccer team scored 14 goals against the Cambodian team in the qualifier for the World Cup 2022, which will take place ...

ISNA | Hadi Zand: Iranian women entered the country's national stadium in Tehran on Thursday after being able to purchase tickets for a national team game for the first time in 40 years.  

Reuters - Iranian women entered the countrys national stadium in Tehran on Thursday after being able to purchase tickets for a national team game for the first time in 40 years. Women have been banned from watching mens games since shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution with only a few exceptions made for small groups on rare occasions. But ...

The New York Times | Tariq Panja: When Irans national soccer team takes the field on Thursday for an otherwise humdrum World Cup qualifier, there will be outsize interest not in the action on the field but in who is seated in the stands. For the first time in almost four decades, women will be allowed to buy tickets and attend a match. The game ...

AFP | Amir Havasi: Thousands of Iranian women fans are to attend a football match freely Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial male-only policy. The Islamic republic has barred female spectators from football and other stadiums for around 40 years, with clerics arguing they must ...

Daily Sabah - FIFA has been "assured" by Iranian authorities that women will be able to attend the October World Cup qualifier in Tehran, Gianni Infantino, president of the body said on Sunday. A female Iranian fan died earlier this month, after setting herself on fire to protest against her arrest for attending a match. FIFA officials have been ...

IRNA Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Hossein Ali Amiri said on Sunday that the Government has carried out preparatory works for entry of women to the stadiums as soon as possible. Amiri said that women's presence in the stadiums need some special arrangements like special separate gates, special area for women, and services, which are ...

IRNA Iran's Vice-President for Legal Affairs Laiya Joneidi stated on Wednesday that women's presence at stadiums is authorized, adding the government supports this issue. She told reporters on the sidelines of cabinet session, noting the government has created the needed conditions regarding the issue so far and will do the same in the future. The ...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Iranian women's relationship with sports events could hardly be more complicated. They are allowed to watch female competitions but barred from most men's events (women have occasionally been granted permission to watch men's volleyball and basketball). The toughest taboo has always been men's soccer; this has drawn constant ...

Tehran Times - Iranian women are permitted to spectate a friendly match between Irans womens football team and Russias in a women-only crowd at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran. The timing of the match is not out yet, although the sports ministrys officials have given the green light to the women for attending the match. The last female Iranians who ...

Al-Monitor | Maziar Motamedi: Asian soccer's most important game of the season, the AFC Champions League final, was held in Tehran on Nov. 10. What transpired on the pitch was somewhat anticlimactic, not to mention discouraging for the Iranian side, as Iran's Persepolis and Japan's Kashima Antlers reached a goalless draw that meant the latter emerged ...

BBC - Hundreds of Iranian women have been allowed to attend the Asia Champions League final in Tehran, Iran's semi-official Isna news agency reports. The move is being seen as a possible end to more than 35 years of exclusion of women from top matches. Most were said to be relatives of players or members of women's teams. They watched the local ...

RTE.ie - In a historic move, 850 women were permitted to attend the Asian Champions League final in Tehran this afternoon, bringing an end to almost four decades of exclusion from top club matches in the country. A crowd of more than 80,000 is expected at the Azadi Stadium as Persepolis, Iran's best-supported club, seek to overturn a 2-0 first leg ...

Al-Monitor - After nearly four decades, a group of Iranian women officially entered the iconic Azadi Stadium in the capital Tehran to watch a soccer friendly between Iran and Bolivia. The decision was made after a security body affiliated with the Interior Ministry approved a request from the country's soccer federation. But only 150 women were granted ...

AFP - Iran's prosecutor general said Wednesday there would be no repeat of women watching football matches inside stadiums, saying it would "lead to sin". The comments by Mohammad Jafar Montazeri came a day after around 100 women were allowed to watch their country take on Bolivia in a friendly at the national stadium -- an extremely rare step in ...

Qatar Tribune- Some 100 Iranian women were allowed to watch their country take on Bolivia in a friendly football match at the national stadium on Tuesday, an extremely rare step. Women have been barred from attending matches since the 1979 Islamic revolution, with authorities saying they must be protected from the masculine atmosphere. But on Tuesday ...

Tasnim | Masoud Shahrestani: Some Iranian football fans, both women and men, watched Iran-Portugal match at Tehrans Azadi stadium. This was the second time in last 40 years that women have been allowed to enter stadiums.   ...

The Guardian | Martin Belam: Irans female football supporters have made history in Tehran for the first time in 37 years they were able to attend a sporting event in the citys Azadi stadium. The usually strict ban on women attending sports stadiums was relaxed for a screening of Irans World Cup match against Spain, which was taking place in Kazan ...