Date: 29-Aug-2025 Afghanistan Group B 1 - 3 CAFA Nations Cup Iran Stadium: Varzişgohi Markazii, Ḩisor, Dushanbe Attendance: 4,520 22.6% Goalscorers Omid Musawi 21 19Majid ALIYARI (25') 18Amir Hossein HOSSEINZADEH (36') 19Majid ALIYARI (64') Starting Lineup Faisal Hamidi Sharif Mohammad Musawar Ahadi Elias Mansoor Amid Arezo Rahmat Akbari Naeem Rahimi Zulfiqar Nazari Omid Mousavi Maziar Kohyar Tofi Sekandari Payam NIAZMAND Arya YOUSEFI Aref AGHASI Ali NEMATI Rouzbeh CHESHMI Amir Hossein HOSSEINZADEH Mehran AHMADI Omid NOORAFKAN Ali ALIPOUR Majid ALIYARI Mehdi HASHEMNEJAD Bench Thomas Safari Alireza Panahi Yama Shirzad Sayed Morteza Fatemi Hossein Zamani 0Ramin REZAEIAN 0Amin HEZBAVI 0Mehdi TAREMI 0Saman GHODDOS 0Shahriyar MOGHANLOU 0Alireza KOUSHKI 0Mohammad KHODABANDEHLO 0Mehdi TIKDARI Substitutions Thomas Safari --> Musawar Ahadi 46 Alireza Panahi --> Rahmat Akbari 39 Yama Shirzad --> Thomas Safari, 66 Sayed Morteza Fatemi --> Tofi Sekandari 66 Hossein Zamani --> Omid Mousavi 82 Ramin REZAEIAN IN 17.Arya YOUSEFI OUT (62\') Alireza KOUSHKI IN 11.Ali ALIPOUR OUT (62\') Mohammad KHODABANDEHLO IN 17.Mehran AHMADI OUT (77\') Mehdi TIKDARI IN 17.Mehdi HASHEMNEJAD OUT (77\') Mehdi TAREMI IN 18.Amir Hossein HOSSEINZADEH OUT (90\') Yellow Cards Ali Reza Panahi 50 Sharif Mukhammad 90+6 17.Arya YOUSEFI (60') Red Cards None None Coach Head Coach Vincenzo Alberto Annese (ITA) Head Coach Amir Ghalenoei(Iran) Match report Coaches: Amir Ghalenoei (IRN) Afghanistan : Captain: Rouzbeh Cheshmi