2022 World Cup/Group B: head-to-head, Iran - USA, Tuesday 29/11/2022 (kick-off at 20:00 CET)

With a squad valued at €277m according to the website Transfermarkt (as of 29/11/2022), the USA national team players are worth 4.6 times more than those of Iran (€60m), as the two nations prepare to face each other on Tuesday 29/11/2022 for the third and final matchday in Group B of the 2022 World Cup at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar (kick-off at 20:00 CET).

On social media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, as of 01/11/2022), the USA team is the ninth most followed of the 32 teams participating in the competition with 7.4 million followers, 10.3 times more than their rivals, in 28^th place and absent from TikTok, who count just 720,000 followers on the other three platforms.

16^th in the FIFA rankings, "Team USA", semi-finalists in the first edition of the World Cup in 1930, are four places ahead of "Team Melli", 20^th, who have never made it beyond the group stage in their five previous appearances at the World Cup.

The USA also lead the way in terms of the value of their equipment supplier contract with Nike, which pays US Soccer €32m per year. The amount received by…