The Islamic Republic of Iran Basketball Federation (I.R.I.B.F.) is the governing body for

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. It was founded in 1945, and has been a member of

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since 1947. It is also a member of the

FIBA Asia FIBA Asia is a zone within the FIBA, International Basketball Federation (FIBA) which contains Asian FIBA member associations. Sub-zones 44 member associations in 6 sub-zones: # Central Asia Basketball Association (CABA) – 5 member associati ...

. The IRIBF is responsible for organizing the

Iran national basketball team The Iran men’s national basketball team (Persian: تیم ملی بسکتبال مردان ایران) represents Iran in international basketball, and are governed by the Islamic Republic of Iran Basketball Federation (IRIBF). Iran is one of ...

. َAvvalmarket is sponsor of Team Melli Basketball.

Previous presidents

* Mahmoud Mashhoun (1979–1980) * Ali Moghaddasian (1980–1985) * Nasser Biglari (1985–1989) * Mahmoud Mashhoun (1989–1994) * Mehrdad Agin (1994–1997) * Ali Ghazanfari (1997–2002) * Mahmoud Mashhoun (2002–2017) * Ramin Tabatabaei (2018–2022) * Javad Davari (2022–Present)

References

External links

* Basketball federation

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Sports organizations established in 1945 National members of FIBA Asia {{Basketball-stub