Head to head

Iran vs South Africa

If they played today

Iran at home

60% / 22% / 18%

Iran win / draw / South Africa win

Iran–South Africa

1–0 11.5%
2–0 10.9%
1–1 10.5%
2–1 9.9%
3–0 6.9%

Neutral venue

53% / 24% / 23%

Iran win / draw / South Africa win

Iran–South Africa

1–1 11.5%
1–0 11.0%
2–1 9.7%
2–0 9.3%
0–1 6.8%

South Africa at home

44% / 26% / 30%

Iran win / draw / South Africa win

Iran–South Africa

1–1 12.2%
1–0 10.4%
2–1 9.1%
0–1 8.2%
2–0 7.7%

Probabilities come from each team's current Elo rating, so they answer “if they met today” rather than predicting a scheduled fixture. See the methodology for how the model works and where it is weakest.

Elo since debut

Side by side

	Iran	South Africa
Current Elo	1889	1694
Elo rank	25th	66th
Peak Elo	1945 (2022)	1792 (1996)
Matches played	615	484
All-time record	349W 147D 119L	216W 146D 122L
Goals for	1158	652
Goals against	486	458
Biggest win	19–0 vs Guam · 2000-11-24 · FIFA World Cup qualification	8–0 vs Australia · 1955-09-17 · Friendly
Biggest loss	1–6 vs Turkey · 1950-05-28 · Friendly	3–9 vs Netherlands · 1958-11-12 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.13	0.02

When they've met

Iran and South Africa have never played each other.