Iranian football federation announced the list of more than 40 players who will participate in the training camp of Team Melli. The squad will be shortlisted to 25 players who will joining the next phase of Team Melli camp in Portugal. The camp will be concluded with a friendly match on FIFA Day of  14th August. The opposition for Team Melli is not clear nor was it officially declared. While Kaffashain , the head of FFIRI has mentioned a friendly match with Benfica, other sources have mentioned the national Team of Gabon..

None of the foreign based players are included in the list, however , it quite likely that players such as Dejagah , Ghoochannejad, Masoud Shojaei and Daniel Davari will be joining the squad in Portugal or be available for the match against the African team.

Notable absentees form the list are  Karim Ansarifard, Shehab Gordan, Ali Karimi, MOhammad Nosrati , Pejman Nouri, Mehrdad Pooladi and Gholamreza Rezaei.