Niloofar Ardalan

Rah Ahan Tehran Football Club

Ardalan began her professional football career at the Rah Ahan Tehran F.C.

Bandar Abbas Tejarat Khane Futsal Club

The first club experience in futsal of Ardalan occurred in Bandar Abbas. Following her shining and starry times in the football arena, she decided to start playing in futsal clubs. In the first step, she came to an agreement with the managers of Bandar Abbas Tejarat Khane F.S.C. to officially start her futsal activity. The presence of Shahrzad Mozaffar, the head coach of Iran Futsal, in this team and the stars who were determined to make history for Iranian women's futsal at the national levels, encouraged and persuaded Ardalan to reach an agreement with this team from Hormozgan Province. She played two seasons in this team, and won the Iranian Women's Futsal Premier League title.

Persepolis Tehran F.S.C.

From her childhood, Ardalan had a special interest in Persepolis and ultimately she succeeded to realize her childhood dream in the early 2010s. In the short time that Persepolis Club entered the field of team management in women's futsal, she played with the Persepolis shirt for three seasons. Although she failed to win the league championship title with the Persepolis team, she won the runner-up title and third place in the league during her time with the Reds to continue her good days in futsal, and at the same time, she turned into one of the key members of the Iran women's national futsal team.

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Ardalan participated in the Asian Indoor Tournament hosted by South Korea in 2012 with the Iran women's national futsal team. In that tournament, the Iranian women's national futsal team won the runner-up title. She participated in two tournaments of the World Women's Futsal Championship, with the Iranian national women's futsal team. In the 2012 Women's Futsal World Tournament, the Iranian national team reached seventh place, and in the 2013 World Futsal Championship in Spain, the Iranian national team stood in fifth place in the world. Niloofar Ardalan has earned notable honors at the national level in both football and futsal. She was part of the Iranian women’s national football team that finished as runner-up in the West Asian Women’s Soccer Tournament in Jordan, achieved seventh place in the World Student Football Tournament in Brazil, and secured seventh place in the Women’s Futsal World Cup in Guatemala. Ardalan played a significant role in these national achievements.

The beginning of coaching in football

She was one of the figures who entered the pool of coaches so soon after leaving her player career and began her efforts to take and pass coaching classes. Ardalan managed pretty soon to climb the coaching promotion ladder in both football and futsal fields. Accordingly, she obtained the A Asian Football Coach Certificate and the Asian Futsal Level 1 Coaching Certificate. Working as a coach and assistant in the Iranian women's under-14 national football team was her first football experience as a coach. In the Central Asian Women's Football Association Tournament (CAFA), she could win the first honor of her coaching career with the young national player girls as the Iranian team gained in third place. Ardalan started work as a coach in the Iranian women's under-16 national football team. With this team, she attended the Central Asian Women's Football Association (CAFA) Tournament and the Iranian girls finished as runner-ups.

Futsal coaching

The shining and successful start at coaching in football brought several offers to Ardalan for continuing her work in the field of coaching. Ultimately, she decided to pursue her career in the Saipa women's futsal team and officially took a step in her first head coaching experience, which was prominently successful and led her to win the runner-up title in her first year of presence in the Iran Women's Futsal Premier League as a head coach, while she lost the championship cup in the…

She is the daughter of Esmail Ardalan, the former goalkeeper of the Ekbatan Football Club (Tehran). She was born in Tehran and lives in this city and has a sister. Her husband, Mehdi Toutounchi, was the host of a sports entertainment program (Lezatefootball (The Pleasure of Football)) on the IRIB Varzesh (national sports TV channel). After being forbidden by her husband from leaving the country to attend the 2015 AFC Women's Futsal Asian Cup in Malaysia, Ardalan filed for divorce, and the divorce was eventually granted. Ardalan went to court, and the judge allowed her to go to the World Tournament, held in Guatemala. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. Ardalan has a son named as Radan.