Behrouz Ataei (Persian: بهروز عطایی, born August 5, 1970, in Amol, Mazandaran Province) is an Iranianvolleyball coach and current manager. He is former head coach of Iran men's national volleyball team[1] He started playing volleyball in 1985, and two years later, for eight consecutive years, he was a member of the national teams of different categories of youth and adults.
Ataei began coaching in 2007 and in 2008 he won the first division league of the country with Kalleh Mazandaran team and brought this team to the Super League. Ataei has been the head coach of the Kalleh team for eleven years.[2][3][4][5] He also led Matin Varamin's volleyball team in 2015 for a year.[6] He became the head coach of the Iranian national youth team in 2017, and this contract was extended in 2019. Ataei inspired Iran to win the 2019 FIVB U21 World Championship for the first time. He returned to the Kalleh team in 2018 and remained the team's head coach until 2020.[7]
