🇮🇷 Iran 2–2 New Zealand 🇳🇿 2026 · live
2026 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
🇮🇷 Iran value €32M · value #44 · Elo #27
Mehdi Ghayedi €4M Mohammad Mohebi €2M Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh €2M 2–2 draw
🇳🇿 New Zealand value €34M · value #43 · Elo #43
Chris Wood €5M Joe Bell €4M Tyler Bindon €4M Goals
Iran ▲ New Zealand ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Ramin Rezaeian 32' 32 Rezaeian Mohammad Mohebi 64' 64 Mohebi Elijah Just 7' 7 Just Elijah Just 54' 54 Just
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇮🇷 Iran
Alireza Beiranvand · GK 1 Beiranvand Ali Nemati · CB 19 Nemati Ramin Rezaeian · RB 23 Rezaeian Shojae Khalilzadeh · CB 4 Khalilzadeh Milad Mohammadi · LB 5 Mohammadi Saman Ghoddos · CM 14 Ghoddos Arya Yousefi · LF 17 Yousefi Saeid Ezatolahi · CM 6 Ezatolahi Mohammad Mohebi · RF 8 Mohebi Mehdi Taremi · CM 9 Taremi Shahriyar Moghanlou · CF 20 Moghanlou 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Max Crocombe · GK 1 Crocombe Liberato Cacace · LB 13 Cacace Finn Surman · CB 16 Surman Tim Payne · RB 2 Payne Michael Boxall · CB 5 Boxall Sarpreet Singh · RM 10 Singh Elijah Just · LM 11 Just Joe Bell · CM 6 Bell Marko Stamenić · CM 8 Stamenić Callum McCowatt · CF 20 McCowatt Chris Wood · CF 9 Wood Players sit in vertical bands (GK · defence · midfield · attack) by their listed position — no
left/right placement is inferred. Order within a band is squad-sheet order, not a formation.
Pre-match model (Elo→Poisson, 90-min W/D/L)
🇮🇷 Iran 66.3% draw 21.4% 12.3% New Zealand 🇳🇿
Model P(result)
21.4%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#70
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
2.22
−log₂ P(observed)
Iran's run D 🇳🇿 2–2 New Zealand, Group D 🇧🇪 0–0 Belgium, Group D 🇪🇬 1–1 Egypt, Group New Zealand's run D 🇮🇷 2–2 Iran, Group L 🇪🇬 1–3 Egypt, Group L 🇧🇪 1–5 Belgium, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.