2015–16 Tractor S.C. season
# 2015–16 Tractor S.C. season

The 2015–16 season is Tractor's 7th season in the Persian Gulf Pro League. They will also be competing in the Hazfi Cup & AFC Champions League. Tractor is captained by Mohammad Iranpourian.

## Club

### Current coaching staff

| Position | Staff |
| - | - |
| Head coach | Amir Ghalenoei |
| First team coach | Younes Bahonar |
| Assistant coach | Amir Masoud Eghbali |
| Assistant coach | Luiz Migonez |
| Fitness coach | Saeid Nikokheslat |
| Goalkeeper coach | George Tabárez |
| Analyzer | António Oliveira |
| Doctor & Physiotherapist | Ramzan Norouzzadeh |
| Psychologist | Akbar Sobhi |
| B team manager | Farhad Pourgholami |
| Technical manager | Ahad Sheykhlari |

### Management

| Position | Staff |
| - | - |
| President | Saeed Abbasi |
| Vice President | Khosro Abdollahzadeh |
| Board chairman | Ali Akbar Pourjamshidian |
| Board members | Sadegh Najafi-Khazarlou Alireza Navin Mohammad Javad Dolfkar Muhammad Ismail Saidi Ghafour Kargari Dara Ghaznavi Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi |
| Fans club president | Rahman Yavaran |
| Academy manager | Sadegh Pourhossein |

## First Team Squad

### Current squad

    As of 7 July 2015

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | GK | IRN | Mohammadreza Akhbari $^{U23}$ (on loan from Saipa) |
| 2 | DF | IRN | Mohammad Iranpourian |
| 3 | DF | IRN | Shoja' Khalilzadeh (on loan from Sepahan) |
| 4 | DF | IRN | Khaled Shafiei |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Cardoso |
| 6 | MF | IRN | Sina Ashouri (on loan from Zob Ahan) |
| 7 | MF | IRN | Saman Nariman Jahan (2nd captain) |
| 8 | FW | IRN | Shahin Saghebi (on loan from Malavan) |
| 9 | FW | IRN | Farid Karimi |
| 10 | MF | IRN | Soroush Rafiei |
| 11 | MF | IRN | Bakhtiar Rahmani |
| 16 | MF | IRN | Mohammad Pour Rahmatollah $^{U21}$ (on loan from Malavan) |
| 18 | MF | PHI | Iain Ramsay |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | BRA | Augusto César |
| 20 | MF | IRN | Ahmad Abdollahzadeh $^{U23}$ (on loan from Foolad) |
| 22 | GK | IRN | Mohammad Ali Ramezanian $^{U23}$ |
| 23 | DF | IRN | Mirhani Hashemi |
| 27 | FW | CMR | Aloys Nong |
| 29 | FW | IRN | Peyman Keshavarz $^{U21}$ |
| 33 | GK | IRN | Mehrdad Tahmasbi |
| 40 | DF | IRN | Ali Hamoudi (on loan from Sepahan) |
| 66 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Kiani (Captain) |
| 77 | MF | IRN | Saeid Aghaei $^{U21}$ (on loan from Gostaresh Foulad) |
| 88 | DF | IRN | Fardin Abedini |
| 99 | FW | IRN | Mehrdad Bayrami |
| — | DF | IRN | Farzad Jafari |

## Transfers

### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| — | DF | IRN | Farzad Jafari (from Esteghlal Khuzestan – conscription) |
| 1 | GK | IRN | Mohammadreza Akhbari (from Saipa — conscription) |
| 10 | MF | IRN | Soroush Rafiei (from Foolad — conscription) |
| 20 | MF | IRN | Ahmad Abdollahzadeh (from Niroo Zamini, originally from Foolad — conscription) |
| 11 | MF | IRN | Bakhtiar Rahmani (from Foolad — conscription) |
| 33 | GK | IRN | Mehrdad Tahmasbi (from Saba Qom) |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Carlos Cardoso (from Neftchi) |
| 17 | FW | TUN | Hamza Younés (from Ludogorets Razgrad) |
| 19 | MF | BRA | Augusto César (from Internacional) |
| 18 | DF | PHI | Iain Ramsay (from Melbourne City) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | MF | IRN | Farshad Ahmadzadeh (to Persepolis – return from conscription) |
| 35 | FW | IRN | Peyman Babaei (Released) |
| 21 | FW | IRN | Mohsen Delir (to Gostaresh Foulad – return from conscription) |
| 44 | GK | SEN | Issa Ndoye (Released) |
| 1 | GK | IRN | Hamed Lak (to Saba Qom) |
| 3 | DF | IRN | Habib Gordani (to Sepahan) |
| 6 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Kiani (to Gostaresh Foulad) |
| 33 | DF | IRN | Shahriar Shirvand (to Gostaresh Foulad – return from conscription) |
| 13 | DF | BRA | Célio (to Al-Shaab) |
| 10 | FW | BRA | Edinho (to Al-Sailiya) |
| 14 | MF | IRN | Andranik Teymourian (to Umm Salal) |
| 18 | MF | IRN | Ahmad Amir Kamdar (to Siah Jamegan Khorasan) |
| 69 | DF | IRN | Mehdi Ghoreishi (to Aluminium Arak) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| 66 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Kiani (from Gostaresh Foolad) |
| 15 | MF | IRN | Ayoub Kalantari (from Gostaresh Foolad) |
| 24 | FW | IRN | Farzad Hatami (from Malavan) |
| 77 | DF | IRN | Saeid Aghaei (from Gostaresh Foolad – previously on conscription) |
| — | FW | IRN | Mehran Ghorbanpour (promoted from Academy) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | IRN | Farid Karimi (to Saba Qom – return from conscription) |
| 7 | MF | IRN | Saman Nariman Jahan (to Gostaresh Foolad – return from conscription) |
| 99 | FW | IRN | Mehrdad Bayrami (Released) |
| 17 | FW | TUN | Hamza Younés (Released) |
| 31 | MF | IRN | Ebrahim Abednezhad (Released) |

## Competitions

### Overall

| Competition | Started round | Current position / round | Final position / round | First match | Last match |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Persian Gulf Pro League | 30 July 2015 | _ | 4th | 31 July 2015 | May 2016 |
| Hazfi Cup | Round of 32 | _ | Semi-Final | 11 September 2015 | |
| AFC Champions League | Group-Stage | _ | Round of 16 | 24 February 2016 | 3 May 2016 |

Source: Competitions

### Competition record

| Competition | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Competition | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Persian Gulf Pro League | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 43 | 27 | +16 | 043.33 |
| Hazfi Cup | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 075.00 |
| AFC Champions League | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 8 | +6 | 062.50 |
| Total | 42 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 64 | 38 | +26 | 050.00 |

### Persian Gulf Pro League

**Standings**

| Pos | Team v t e | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | Persepolis | 30 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 50 | 34 | +16 | 57 | 2017 AFC Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Esteghlal | 30 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 43 | 28 | +15 | 52 | 2017 AFC Champions League play-off round |
| 4 | Tractor Sazi | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 43 | 27 | +16 | 51 | |
| 5 | Naft Tehran | 30 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 30 | 21 | +9 | 49 | |
| 6 | Zob Ahan | 30 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 46 | 2017 AFC Champions League group stage |

* ↑ Zob Ahan secured qualification for the 2017 AFC Champions League through winning the 2015–16 Hazfi Cup.

### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |

Last updated: 25 September 2015. Source: Ipl Stats

### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | D | L | D | D | L | W | W | D | L | D | W | D | W | W | D | D | L | D | W | D | W | W | W | D | L | W | W | W |
| Position | 8 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Hazfi Cup

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Tractor Sazi | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 12 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Al-Hilal | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 11 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Pakhtakor | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 10 | |
| 4 | Al-Jazira | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 1 | |

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

## Kit and sponsorship

Tractor is currently sponsored by the Hamrah-e Aval (Mobile Telecommunication Company) and also Javanane Khayer Foundation. They were previously sponsored by the Bank Sepah. In July 2014, the club signed a contract with Kelme, starting from 2014–15 season.

| Years | Shirt sponsors |
| - | - |
| 1970–2009 | TMC |
| 2007–2010 | Bank Sepah |
| 2009–2012 | Hamrah-e Aval |
| 2012–2014 | Javanane Khayer Foundation |
| 2013– | Aysan Tabriz |
| 2014– | Hamrah-e Aval |
| Years | Kit manufacturers |
| 1970–1974 | Umbro |
| 1974–2005 | Puma |
| 2005–2010 | Daei Sport |
| 2010–2013 | Uhlsport |
| 2013–2014 | Merooj |
| 2014– | Kelme |
