# 2017–18 Tractor S.C. season

The 2017–18 season is Tractor's 10th season in the Persian Gulf Pro League. They will also be competing in the Hazfi Cup & AFC Champions League. Tractor is captained by Mehdi Kiani.

## Club

| Position | Staff |
| Head coach | Yahya Golmohammadi |
| First team coach | Mojtaba Hosseini |
| Assistant coach | Ali Reza Pezhman |
| Assistant coach | Rodolfo Correa |
| Fitness coach | Mazaher Rahimpour |
| Goalkeeper coach | Rui Tavares |
| Analyzer | Mohammad Asgari |
| Doctor & Physiotherapist | Ramzan Norouzzadeh |
| Psychologist | Akbar Sobhi |
| B team manager | Farhad Pourgholami |
| Technical manager | Ahad Sheykhlari |

### Management

| Position | Staff |
| President | Mostafa Ajorlu |
| Vice President | Kazem Mahmoudi |
| 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 January 2018
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 | Farzin Garousian |
| 2 | DF | IRN | Mohammad Iranpourian |
| 3 | DF | IRN | Reza Sharbati (on loan from Meshki Pooshan) |
| 5 | DF | CRO | Šime Gregov |
| 6 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Kiani (Captain) |
| 7 | MF | IRN | Omid Alishah (on loan from Persepolis) |
| 8 | DF | IRN | Danial Esmaeilifar (on loan from Zob Ahan) |
| 9 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Mehdipour (on loan from Zob Ahan) |
| 10 | FW | IRN | Mohammad Ebrahimi |
| 11 | FW | IRN | Shahram Goudarzi |
| 14 | MF | IRN | Mohammad Nouri |
| 15 | FW | IRN | Ehsan Pahlavan (on loan from Zob Ahan) |
| 16 | DF | IRN | Mohammadreza Mehdizadeh |
| 17 | FW | IRN | Amir Arsalan Motahari |
| 18 | FW | BIH | Sulejman Krpić |
| 19 | FW | IRN | Mohammad Reza Azadi |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | DF | IRN | Aref Aghasi (on loan from Foolad) |
| 24 | FW | IRN | Farzad Hatami |
| 27 | FW | IRN | Fakher Tahami (on loan from Sanat Naft) |
| 28 | DF | IRN | Mohammad Naderi$^{U23}$ |
| 29 | FW | IRN | Reza Abdi $^{U23}$ |
| 30 | MF | IRN | Amir Asadzadeh $^{U23}$ |
| 32 | FW | IRN | Hamed Hosseinalizadeh $^{U21}$ |
| 33 | GK | IRN | Mahdi Mohammadian $^{U21}$ |
| 34 | DF | IRN | Jafar Dehghan $^{U23}$ |
| 38 | DF | IRN | Amir Mehdi Janmaleki $^{U21}$ |
| 40 | DF | IRN | Ali Esmaeili $^{U23}$ |
| 44 | GK | BRA | Jordi Almeida (on loan from Vasco da Gama) |
| 47 | FW | IRN | Mehdi Sharifi (on loan from Sepahan) |
| 66 | MF | IRN | Sina Ashouri |
| 70 | DF | IRN | Amir Reza Nasr Azadani $^{U23}$ |
| 77 | DF | IRN | Mohammad Moslemipour $^{U21}$ |
| 88 | MF | IRN | Ali Taheran $^{U21}$ |
| 99 | MF | IRN | Ghaem Eslamikhah $^{U23}$ (on loan from Baadraan Tehran) |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | IRN | Mohammad Reza Akhbari (Loan return to Saipa) |
| — | DF | IRN | Saeid Aghaei (to Sepahan) |
| — | MF | IRQ | Karrar Jassim (to Sanat Naft) |
| — | FW | BRA | Éder Luciano (Released) |
| — | DF | IRN | Mohsen Bengar (Released) |
| — | DF | IRN | Khaled Shafiei (to FC Seoul) |
| — | MF | IRN | Mohammad Papi (to Fajr Sepasi) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | FW | BIH | Sulejman Krpić (from Sloboda Tuzla) |
| 17 | FW | IRN | Amir Arsalan Motahari (from Pars Jonoubi Jam) |
| 15 | FW | IRN | Ehsan Pahlavan (on loan from Zob Ahan) |
| 9 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Mehdipour (on loan from Zob Ahan) |
| 8 | DF | IRN | Danial Esmaeilifar (on loan from Zob Ahan) |
| 5 | DF | CRO | Šime Gregov (from Viking) |
| 3 | DF | IRN | Reza Sharbati (on loan from Meshki Pooshan) |
| 44 | GK | BRA | Jordi Almeida (from Vasco da Gama) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 47 | FW | IRN | Mehdi Sharifi (Loan return to Sepahan) |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Pro League | 27 July 2017 | 27 April 2018 | — | 10th | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 33 | −5 | 026.67 |
| Hazfi Cup | 8 September 2017 | 19 December 2017 | Round of 32 | Quarter-Final | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 066.67 |
| AFC Champions League | 30 January 2018 | 17 April 2018 | Group stage | Group stage | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 025.64 |
Last updated: 27 April 2018 (2018-04-27). Source: Competitions

### Persian Gulf Pro League
#### Standings

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 8 | Sanat Naft | 30 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 40 |
| 9 | Gostaresh | 30 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 24 | 32 | −8 | 37 |
| 10 | Tractor Sazi | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 33 | −5 | 34 |
| 11 | Padideh | 30 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 33 |
| 12 | Est. Khuzestan | 30 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 25 | 42 | −17 | 31 |
* ↑ Padideh deducted 6 points by FIFA

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: April 27, 2018. 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 | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | L | W | W | D | L | W | D | L | D | L | W | D | D | W | L | D | L | L | D | W | W | D | L | L | D | L | D | W |
| Position | 13 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 |

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Hazfi Cup
#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### AFC Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Al-Ahli | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 14 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Al-Jazira | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Al-Gharafa | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 8 | |
| 4 | Tractor Sazi | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 2 | |
* 1 2 Head-to-head results: Al-Jazira 3–2 Al-Gharafa, Al-Gharafa 2–3 Al-Jazira.
Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

## Statistics
### Squad statistics

    As of 27 April 2018
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Persian Gulf Pro League | Persian Gulf Pro League | Hazfi Cup | Hazfi Cup | Champions League | Champions League |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | IRN | Farzin Garousian | 23 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | IRN | Mohammad Iranpourian | 35 | 8 | 27 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | DF | IRN | Reza Sharbati | 18 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | CRO | Šime Gregov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Kiani | 30 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | MF | IRN | Omid Alishah | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | IRN | Danial Esmaeilifar | 18 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | IRN | Mehdi Mehdipour | 20 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | IRN | Mohammad Ebrahimi | 29 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | IRN | Ehsan Pahlavan | 17 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | IRN | Mohammadreza Mehdizadeh | 36 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | IRN | Amir Arsalan Motahari | 18 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 18 | FW | BIH | Sulejman Krpić | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | IRN | Mohammad Reza Azadi | 33 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 23 | DF | IRN | Aref Aghasi | 14 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 24 | FW | IRN | Farzad Hatami | 30 | 6 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 27 | FW | IRN | Fakher Tahami | 14 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | DF | IRN | Mohammad Naderi | 34 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | IRN | Reza Abdi | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | IRN | Amir Asadzadeh | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | IRN | Hamed Hosseinalizadeh | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | IRN | Mahdi Mohammadian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | IRN | Jafar Dehghan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | DF | IRN | Amir Mehdi Janmaleki | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 | DF | IRN | Ali Esmaeili | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | GK | BRA | Jordi Almeida | 16 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 66 | MF | IRN | Sina Ashouri | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | DF | IRN | Amir Reza Nasr Azadani | 15 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | DF | IRN | Mohammad Moslemipour | 16 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 88 | MF | IRN | Ali Taheran | 26 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 99 | MF | IRN | Ghaem Eslamikhah | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season ||||||||||||
| 11 | FW | IRN | Shahram Goudarzi | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | IRN | Mohammad Nouri | 12 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | FW | IRN | Mehdi Sharifi | 15 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 27 April 2018 (2018-04-27) Source: Competitions

### Goals

    As of 27 April 2018
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Pro League | Hazfi Cup | AFC CL | Total |
| 1 | 2 | DF | | Mohammad Iranpourian | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | 15 | FW | | Ehsan Pahlavan | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 24 | FW | | Farzad Hatami | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | 47 | FW | | Mehdi Sharifi | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | 70 | DF | | Amir Reza Nasr Azadani | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 8 | DF | | Danial Esmaeilifar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 6 | MF | | Mehdi Kiani | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 16 | DF | | Mohammadreza Mehdizadeh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 27 | FW | | Fakher Tahami | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 9 | MF | | Mehdi Mehdipour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 19 | FW | | Mohammad Reza Azadi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 7 | MF | | Omid Alishah | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 28 | 7 | 2 | 37 |

### Clean sheets

| Rank | Name | Pro League | Hazfi Cup | AFC CL | Total |
| 1 | Farzin Garousian | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Jordi Almeida | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Total | Total | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |