Persepolis F.C.–Tractor S.C. rivalry

The rivalry between Persepolis and Tractor is a footballing rivalry played between Iranian clubs Persepolis and Tractor.^[1]

Persepolis F.C. v Tractor S.C.

Location	Tehran, Iran Tabriz, Iran
Teams	Persepolis Football Club Tractor Sport Club
First meeting	Tractor 0–3 Persepolis (April 19, 1975)
Latest meeting	Tractor 0–1 Persepolis (August 16, 2023)
Next meeting	TBA
Statistics
Meetings total	54 matches
Most wins	Persepolis (27)
Top scorer	Farshad Pious (9)
Largest victory	Persepolis 5–2 Tractor 1999–2000 Azadegan League (March 2000 (2000-03)) Tractor 4–1 Persepolis 2011–12 Iran Pro League (26 April 2012 (2012-04-26))

History

Tractor return to first tier and Navad TV show

This rivalry started in 2009 when Tractor returned to first tier of Iranian football league after 8 years and their fans had passion about this event. For the first time, a club except Esteghlal and Persepolis had too much fans in many of Iran's stadiums including Azadi, Esteghlal and Persepolis home ground. Their passion was so great that the Navad TV show arranged a vote quiz about the hottest fans in Iran and Tractor became first. Their coach Faraz Kamalvand declared on that program "Our fans are most popular fans in Iran too." This caused on other night Navad program arranged a vote quiz about the most popular fans in Iran and Tractor became third after Persepolis and Esteghlal. their fans didn't accept this result and protested and also looked Esteghlal and Persepolis as a Rival. On the other hand, with Tractor getting stronger, the rivalry between them and Tehran giants became more intense and Tractor won many times in Azadi stadium, especially against Esteghlal. In the years after that this rivalry was a bit overwhelmed by violence from both fans.

All results

No.	Date	Home team	Score	Away team	Home goal scorers	Away goal scorers	Venue	Competition	Comments
1	1975–Apr-19	Tractor	0–3	Persepolis	–	Jahangir Fattahi 21', 90' – Safar Iranpak 37'	Tabriz	Takht Jamshid Cup 3rd
2	1975–76	Persepolis	1–0	Tractor	Ali Parvin 32'(p.)	–	Tehran	Takht Jamshid Cup 3rd
3	1977–78	Persepolis	1–1	Tractor	Ali Parvin 87'	Ahad Dayani 51'	Tehran	Takht Jamshid Cup 5th
4	1977–78	Tractor	2–2	Persepolis	? – ?	Alan Whittle – Mahmoud Khordbin	Tabriz	Takht Jamshid Cup 5th
5	1978–79	Tractor	1–1	Persepolis	?	Ali Parvin	Tabriz	Takht Jamshid Cup 6th
6	1989–90	Persepolis	2–0	Tractor	Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard – Morteza Kermani Moghaddam	–	Tehran	Qods League
7	1989–90	Tractor	0–0	Persepolis	–	–	Tabriz	Qods League
8	1991–92	Tractor	1–4	Persepolis	?	Farshad Pious (4)	Tabriz	Azadegan Cup 1st
9	1991–92	Persepolis	2–1	Tractor	Hassan Shirmohammadi – Farshad Pious	Akbar Zolmajidian	Tehran	Azadegan Cup 1st
10	1993–94	Tractor	2–1	Persepolis	Hassan Alishiri – Habib Paknejad	Jamshid Shahmohammadi	Tabriz	Azadegan Cup 3rd
11	1993–94	Persepolis	1–1	Tractor	Hamid Derakhshan	Akbar Zolmajidian	Tehran	Azadegan Cup 3rd
12	1994–95	Tractor	1–1	Persepolis	?	Farshad Pious	Tabriz	Azadegan Cup 4th
13	1994–95	Persepolis	2–1	Tractor	Farshad Pious (2)	?	Tehran	Azadegan Cup 4th
14	1996–97	Persepolis	2–2	Tractor	Farshad Pious – Mehdi Mahdavikia	? – ?	Tehran	Azadegan League 6th
15	1996–97	Tractor	2–2	Persepolis	? – ?	Edmond Bezik – Mehdi Mahdavikia	Tabriz	Azadegan League 6th
16	1997–98	Tractor	1–1	Persepolis	?	Reza Torabian	Tabriz	Azadegan League 7th
17	1998–99	Tractor	2–4	Persepolis	Kourosh Barmak (2 p.)	Esmaeil Halali (p.) – Mehdi Hasheminasab – Ali Karimi – Hamid Estili	Tabriz	Azadegan League 8th
18	1998–99	Persepolis	0–0	Tractor	–	–	Tehran	Azadegan League 8th
19	1999–2000	Tractor	1–1	Persepolis	Afshin Peyrovani 62'(o.g.)	Ali Baghmisheh 88'	Tabriz	Azadegan League 9th
20	1999–2000	Persepolis	5–2	Tractor	Edmond Bezik 37', 48' – Ali Karimi 65' – Behnam Seraj 78' – Mehdi Hasheminasab 82'(p.)	Asadollah Tavakkoli 9' – Davoud Rostami 46'	Tehran	Azadegan League 9th
21	2000–01	Persepolis	1–0	Tractor	Hamid Estili	–	Tehran	Azadegan League 10th
22	2000–01	Tractor	0–3	Persepolis	–	Ali Karimi – Payan Rafat 46' – Ebrahim Asadi 78'	Tabriz	Azadegan League 10th
23	2001–Nov-18	Tractor	0–1	Persepolis	–	Reza Jabbari	Tabriz	IPL 1st
24	2002–Mar-12	Persepolis	2–1	Tractor	Esmaeil Halali – Sohrab Entezari	Farhad Aliyari	Tehran	IPL 1st
25	2009–Oct-26	Persepolis	2–1	Tractor	Mojtaba Zarei 65' – Hawar Mulla Mohammed 86'	Farhad Kheirkhah 90+2'	Tehran	IPL 9th
26	2010–Apr-16	Tractor	1–1	Persepolis	Farhad Kheirkhah 38'	Hadi Norouzi 56'	Tabriz	IPL 9th
27	2010–Jul–27	Persepolis	1–0	Tractor	Gholamreza Rezaei 46'	–	Tehran	IPL 10th
28	2010–Dec-09	Tractor	1–0	Persepolis	Karrar Jassim 27'(p.)	–	Tabriz	IPL 10th
29	2011–Dec-02	Persepolis	0–1	Tractor	–	Siavash Akbarpour 65'	Tehran	IPL 11th
30	2012–Apr-26	Tractor	4–1	Persepolis	Flávio Paixão 51', 64' – Farzad Hatami 58' – Mohammad Ebrahimi 66'	Alireza Nourmohammadi 80'	Tabriz	IPL 11th
31	2012–Dec-03	Persepolis	0–1	Tractor	–	Seyed Mehdi Seyed-Salehi 77'	Tehran	IPL 12th
32	2013–May-10	Tractor	3–1	Persepolis	Seyed Mehdi Seyed-Salehi 33' – Mehdi Karimian 53' – Geílson Soares 90'	Reza Haghighi 70'	Tabriz	IPL 12th
33	2013–Jul–24	Persepolis	1–0	Tractor	Seyed Mehdi Seyed-Salehi 80'	–	Tehran	IPL 13th
34	2013–Nov-28	Tractor	1–0	Persepolis	Karim Ansarifard 40'	–	Tabriz	IPL 13th
35	2014–Sep-05	Persepolis	1–3	Tractor	Mohsen Bengar 39'	Sosha Makani 68'(o.g.) – Édinho 85' – Saman Nariman Jahan 90+2'	Tehran	IPL 14th
36	2015–Mar-08	Tractor	1–0	Persepolis	Shahin Saghebi 62'	–	Tabriz	IPL 14th
37	2015–Sep-25	Tractor	0–1	Persepolis	–	Jerry Bengtson 71'(p.)	Tabriz	IPL 15th
38	2016-Mar-06	Persepolis	1–1	Tractor	Ramin Rezaeian 13'	Mohammad Iranpourian 39'	Tehran	IPL 15th
39	2016–Sep-10	Tractor	0–0	Persepolis	–	–	Tabriz	IPL 16th
40	2017-Feb-05	Persepolis	3–0	Tractor	Mehdi Taremi 2' – Ramin Rezaeian 23' – Vahid Amiri 64'	–	Tehran	IPL 16th
41	2017–Aug-03	Tractor	1–2	Persepolis	Farzad Hatami 41'	Godwin Mensha 15' – Kamal Kamyabinia 67'	Tabriz	IPL 17th
42	2017–Dec-29	Persepolis	2–0	Tractor	Ali Alipour 45' – Kamal Kamyabinia 78'	–	Tehran	IPL 17th
43	2018–Nov-25	Persepolis	0–0	Tractor	–	–	Tehran	IPL 18th
44	2019–May-1	Tractor	1–1	Persepolis	Danial Esmaeilifar 79'	Kamal Kamyabinia 11'	Tabriz	IPL 18th
45	2019–Aug-30	Tractor	1–0	Persepolis	Ehsan Hajsafi 45+2'	–	Tabriz	IPL 19th
46	2020–Jan-26	Persepolis	2–0	Tractor	Ali Alipour 9' – Vahid Amiri 55'	–	Tehran	IPL 19th
47	2021–Feb-4	Tractor	0–1	Persepolis	–	Seyed Jalal Hosseini 53'	Tabriz	IPL 20th
48	2021–Jun-20	Persepolis	1–0	Tractor	Issa Alekasir 61'	–	Tehran	Iranian Super Cup
49	2021–Jul-26	Persepolis	3–1	Tractor	Mehdi Abdi 64', 90+4' – Ahmad Nourollahi 68'	Peyman Babaei 54'	Tehran	IPL 20th
50	2022–Jan–3	Persepolis	2–1	Tractor	Issa Aleksair 10' – Siamak Nemati 55'	Peyman Babaei 24'	Tehran	IPL 21st
51	2022–May–19	Tractor	0–3	Persepolis	–	–	Tabriz	IPL 21st	^[2]
52	2022–Oct-2	Persepolis	0–1	Tractor	–	Mohammad Abbaszadeh 75'	Tehran	IPL 22nd
53	2023–Mar–5	Tractor	2–3	Persepolis	Mohammad Abbaszadeh 77' - 84'(p.)	Mohammad Omri 18' - Mehdi Torabi 31' - Vahdat Hanonov 90+5'	Tabriz	IPL 22nd
54	2023–Aug–16	Tractor	0–1	Persepolis	–	Saeid Sadeghi 42'	Tabriz	IPL 23rd

Summary of results

	Apps	Persepolis wins	Draws	Tractor wins
League (before IPL)	22	10	11	1
IPL	31	16	5	10
Super Cup	1	1	0	0
Total	54	27	16	11

Position	Teams	Matches	Wins	Draws	Loses	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference
1	Persepolis	54	27	16	11	77	48	+29
2	Tractor	54	11	16	27	48	77	–29

Trophies

Team	Domestic				International			Grand Total
	Iranian League	Hazfi Cup	Super Cup	Domestic Total	AFC Champions League	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	International Total
Persepolis	15	7	5	27	0	1	1	28
Tractor	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Top goal scorers

• Player in Italic is still active in football playing.

 

Farshad Pious, top goalscorer of rivalry with 9 goals

 

Mohammad Abbaszadeh, Tractor's highest scorer of rivalry

Position	Player	Club(s)	Goals
1	Farshad Pious	Persepolis	9
2	Ali Parvin	Persepolis	3
	Edmond Bezik	Persepolis
	Ali Karimi	Persepolis
	Mehdi Seyed-Salehi ^1	Tractor / Persepolis
	Kamal Kamyabinia	Persepolis
	Mohammad Abbaszadeh	Tractor

¹ Seyed-Salehi scored 2 goals as the Tractor player and 1 goal as the Persepolis player.

Own goals

•   Afshin Peyrovani (against Tractor)
•   Sosha Makani (against Tractor)

Hat-tricks

A hat-trick is achieved when the same player scores three or more goals in one match. Listed in chronological order.

Sequence	Player	No. of goals	Time of goals	Representing	Final score	Opponent	Tournament
1.	Farshad Pious	4	?', ?', ?', ?'	Persepolis	4–1	Tractor	1991–92 Azadegan League

Most successful coaches

• Coaches in bold are still active for Persepolis or Tractor.

Rank	Head coach	Club	Matches	Win	Draw	Lost	Winning rate
1	Ali Parvin	Persepolis	12	9	3	0	75%
2	Yahya Golmohammadi	Persepolis	10	8	0	2	80%
3	Branko Ivanković	Persepolis	8	4	4	0	50%
4	Toni	Tractor	4	3	0	1	75%
5	Amir Ghalenoei	Tractor	5	2	2	1	40%

See also

• Football in Iran
• Persepolis F.C.
• Tractor S.C.
• Tehran Derby
• El Gilano
• Isfahan Derby
• Mashhad Derby
• Persepolis F.C.–Sepahan S.C. rivalry
• Esteghlal F.C.–Sepahan S.C. rivalry
• Major football rivalries

References

1. "Persepolis and Tractor Sazi rivalry history". mashreghnews.ir. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
2. "Disciplinary Committee declared verdict of Tractor vs. Persepolis match 3-0 in favor of Persepolis". tarafdari.com. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2022.