Sahar Khodayari

FIFA delegation visits Iran to discuss allowing country's female spectators into football matches

A FIFA delegation visited Tehran on Friday to discuss allowing female spectators into football matches, the official news agency IRNA reported, days after a public row over a female fan who killed herself.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino hopeful Iran will lift stadium ban on women football fans

Attention on the stadium ban in Iran intensified when a 29-year-old activist, Sahar Khodayari, died this month after setting herself on fire. She had been detained for dressing as a man to enter a football stadium.

FIFA will send officials to Iran to look at possibility of allowing female spectators into football stadiums

FIFA said on Wednesday it will send officials to Iran "shortly" to look at the possibility of allowing female spectators into football games in the country.

Iran to probe death of female football fan Sahar Khodayari who committed suicide over possible jail term for entering stadium

Sahar Khodayari set herself on fire outside the court last week after hearing about a possible six-month jail term for trying to enter a football stadium.

Iranian female football fan dies after setting herself on fire to protest possible jail term for entering stadium

The tragic death immediately drew an outcry among some football stars and known figures in Iran, where women are banned from football stadiums, though they are allowed at some other sports, such as volleyball.