Carlos Queiroz announced the final list of Team Melli players for the last two matches in Group D of Asian Zone FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifiers. All of the Legionnaire players who were not invited to the short training preparations camp , have been included in the final 24 players list. The hope that many older players will be rested for these two matches were quickly dashed after the list was finalized and most of the new faces were dropped. Only i made the final list.
The most significant absentee in the final list is Andranik Teymourian , Team Melli Captain.
THE SQUAD
| 1 | Ali Reza Biranvand |
| 2 | Alireza Jahanbakhsh |
| 3 | Ashkan Dejagah |
| 4 | Dariush Shojaeian |
| 5 | Ehsan Haj Safy |
| 6 | Ezatollah Pourghaz |
| 7 | Jalal Hosseini |
| 8 | Kamal Kamyabinia |
| 9 | Karim Ansarifard |
| 10 | Mahdi Taremi |
| 11 | Masoud Shojaei |
| 12 | Mehdi Torabi |
| 13 | Milad Mohammadi |
| 14 | Mohammad Reza Akhbari |
| 15 | Morteza Pouraliganji |
| 16 | Omid Ebrahimi |
| 17 | Pejman Montazeri |
| 18 | Ramin Rezaeian |
| 19 | Rashid Mazaheri |
| 20 | Reza Ghoochannejad |
| 21 | Saeed Ezatollahei |
| 22 | Sardar Azmoun |
| 23 | Vahid Amiri |
| 24 | Vouriya Ghafoori |