# Persepolis F.C.–Tractor S.C. rivalry

The rivalry between Persepolis and Tractor is a footballing rivalry played between Iranian clubs Persepolis and Tractor.

## 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 |
| 1 | 1975–Apr-19 | Tractor | 0–3 | Persepolis | – | Jahangir Fattahi 21', 90' – Safar Iranpak 37' | Tabriz | Takht Jamshid Cup 3rd |
| 2 | 1975–Oct-10 | Persepolis | 1–0 | Tractor | Ali Parvin 32'(p.) | – | Tehran | Takht Jamshid Cup 3rd |
| 3 | 1977–Mar-11 | Persepolis | 1–1 | Tractor | Ali Parvin 87' | Ahad Dayani 51'(o.g.) | Tehran | Takht Jamshid Cup 5th |
| 4 | 1977–Sep-08 | Tractor | 2–2 | Persepolis | Rahim Mahnamay Aghdam 52' – Parviz Mazloumi 67' | Alan Whittle 15' – Mahmoud Khordbin 75' | Tabriz | Takht Jamshid Cup 5th |
| 5 | 1978–Jul-14 | Tractor | 1–1 | Persepolis | Kamel Anjabini 64' | Ali Parvin 44' | Tabriz | Takht Jamshid Cup 6th |
| 6 | 1989–Aug-18 | Persepolis | 2–0 | Tractor | Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard 17' – Morteza Kermani Moghaddam 52' | – | Tehran | Qods League |
| 7 | 1990–Jan-05 | Tractor | 0–0 | Persepolis | – | – | Tabriz | Qods League |
| 8 | 1991–Sep-06 | Tractor | 1–4 | Persepolis | Ahad Sheykhlari 48' | Farshad Pious 8', 32', 43', 90' | Tabriz | Azadegan Cup 1st |
| 9 | 1991–Feb-26 | Persepolis | 2–1 | Tractor | Hassan Shirmohammadi 6' – Farshad Pious 83' | Akbar Zolmajidian 35' | Tehran | Azadegan Cup 1st |
| 10 | 1993–Dec-03 | Tractor | 2–1 | Persepolis | Hassan Alishiri 25' – Habib Paknejad 88' | Jamshid Shahmohammadi 89' | Tabriz | Azadegan Cup 3rd |
| 11 | 1994–Feb-07 | Persepolis | 1–1 | Tractor | Hamid Derakhshan 39' | Akbar Zolmajidian 20' | Tehran | Azadegan Cup 3rd |
| 12 | 1994–Jun-24 | Tractor | 1–1 | Persepolis | Hossein Hassandokht 52' | Farshad Pious 78' | Tabriz | Azadegan Cup 4th |
| 13 | 1994–Nov-04 | Persepolis | 2–1 | Tractor | Farshad Pious 35'(p.), 87' | Yousef Bakhshizadeh 14' | Tehran | Azadegan Cup 4th |
| 14 | 1996–Oct-13 | Tractor | 1–1 | Persepolis | Aref Mohammadvand 77'(p.) | Reza Torabian 47' | Tabriz | Azadegan League 6th |
| 15 | 1997–Jul-05 | Persepolis | 2–2 | Tractor | Farshad Pious 5' – Mehdi Mahdavikia 44' | Davoud Rostami 55' – Nasser Ferasati 88' | Tehran | Azadegan League 6th |
| 16 | 1997–Jan-16 | Tractor | 2–2 | Persepolis | Mohammad Farshbaf 18' – Mohammad Azadi 79' | Edmond Bezik 21' – Mehdi Mahdavikia 73' | Tabriz | Azadegan League 7th |
| 17 | 1999–Jan-12 | Tractor | 2–4 | Persepolis | Kourosh Barmak 10'(p.), 84'(p.) | Esmaeil Halali 22'(p.) – Mehdi Hasheminasab 42' – Ali Karimi 53' – Hamid Estili 55' | Tabriz | Azadegan League 8th |
| 18 | 1999–Apr-18 | Persepolis | 0–0 | Tractor | – | – | Tehran | Azadegan League 8th |
| 19 | 1999–Oct-07 | Tractor | 1–1 | Persepolis | Afshin Peyrovani 62'(o.g.) | Ali Baghmisheh 88' | Tabriz | Azadegan League 9th |
| 20 | 2000–Mar-09 | 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–Dec-03 | Persepolis | 1–0 | Tractor | Hamid Estili 44' | – | Tehran | Azadegan League 10th |
| 22 | 2001–Feb-28 | Tractor | 0–3 | Persepolis | – | Ali Karimi 5' – Payan Rafat 46' – Ebrahim Asadi 79' | Tabriz | Azadegan League 10th |
| 23 | 2001–Nov-18 | Tractor | 0–1 | Persepolis | – | Reza Jabbari 85' | Tabriz | IPL 1st |
| 24 | 2002–Mar-12 | Persepolis | 2–1 | Tractor | Esmaeil Halali 10' – Sohrab Entezari 84' | Farhad Aliyari 68' | 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 55 | 2024–Feb-21 | Persepolis | 2–0 | Tractor | Issa Alekasir 57' – Mehdi Torabi 59' | – | Tehran | IPL 23rd |
| 56 | 2024–Aug-22 | Tractor | 1–1 | Persepolis | Shoja Khalilzadeh 60' | Ayoub El Amloud 89' | Tabriz | IPL 24th |
| 57 | 2025–Jan-26 | Persepolis | 2–0 | Tractor | Soroush Rafiei 11' – Giorgi Gvelesiani 73' | – | Tehran | IPL 24th |

## Summary of results

| | Apps | Persepolis wins | Draws | Tractor wins |
| League (before IPL) | 22 | 10 | 11 | 1 |
| IPL | 34 | 18 | 6 | 10 |
| Super Cup | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 57 | 29 | 17 | 11 |
| Position | Teams | Matches | Wins | Draws | Loses | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference |
| 1 | Persepolis | 57 | 29 | 17 | 11 | 82 | 49 | +33 |
| 2 | Tractor | 57 | 11 | 17 | 29 | 49 | 82 | –33 |

## Trophies

| Team | Domestic | Domestic | Domestic | Domestic | International | International | International | Grand Total |
| Team | Iranian League | Hazfi Cup | Super Cup | Domestic Total | AFC Champions League Elite | Asian Cup Winners' Cup | International Total | Grand Total |
| Persepolis | 16 | 7 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 |
| Tractor | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |

## Goal scorers

* Player in Bold is still active in Persepolis or Tractor.
* Player in Italic is still active in football playing.
| Position | Player | Club(s) | Goals |
| 1 | Farshad Pious | Persepolis | 9 |
| 2 | Ali Parvin | Persepolis | 3 |
| 2 | Edmond Bezik | Persepolis | 3 |
| 2 | Ali Karimi | Persepolis | 3 |
| 2 | Mehdi Seyed-Salehi $^1$ | Tractor / Persepolis | 3 |
| 2 | Kamal Kamyabinia | Persepolis | 3 |
| 2 | Mohammad Abbaszadeh | Tractor | 3 |
| 2 | Issa Alekasir | Persepolis | 3 |
| 9 | Jahangir Fattahi | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Akbar Zolmajidian | Tractor | 2 |
| 9 | Mehdi Mahdavikia | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Kourosh Barmak | Tractor | 2 |
| 9 | Davoud Rostami | Tractor | 2 |
| 9 | Mehdi Hasheminasab | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Hamid Estili | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Esmaeil Halali | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Farhad Kheirkhah | Tractor | 2 |
| 9 | Flávio Paixão | Tractor | 2 |
| 9 | Farzad Hatami | Tractor | 2 |
| 9 | Ramin Rezaeian | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Vahid Amiri | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Ali Alipour | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Mehdi Abdi | Persepolis | 2 |
| 9 | Peyman Babaei | Tractor | 2 |
| 9 | Mehdi Torabi | Persepolis | 2 |
| 26 | Safar Iranpak | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Alan Whittle | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Rahim Mahnamay Aghdam | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Parviz Mazloumi | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mahmoud Khordbin | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Kamel Anjabini | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Morteza Kermani Moghaddam | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Ahad Sheykhlari | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Hassan Shirmohammadi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Hassan Alishiri | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Habib Paknejad | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Jamshid Shahmohammadi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Hamid Derakhshan | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Hossein Hassandokht | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Yousef Bakhshizadeh | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Reza Torabian | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Aref Mohammadvand | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Nasser Ferasati | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mohammad Farshbaf | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mohammad Azadi | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Ali Baghmisheh | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Asadollah Tavakkoli | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Behnam Seraj | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Payan Rafat | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Ebrahim Asadi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Reza Jabbari | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Sohrab Entezari | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Farhad Aliyari | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mojtaba Zarei | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Hawar Mulla Mohammed | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Hadi Norouzi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Gholamreza Rezaei | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Karrar Jassim | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Siavash Akbarpour | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mohammad Ebrahimi | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Alireza Nourmohammadi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Mehdi Karimian | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Reza Haghighi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Geílson | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Karim Ansarifard | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mohsen Bengar | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Edinho | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Saman Nariman Jahan | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Shahin Saghebi | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Jerry Bengtson | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Mohammad Iranpourian | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Mehdi Taremi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Godwin Mensha | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Danial Esmaeilifar | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Ehsan Hajsafi | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Jalal Hosseini | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Ahmad Nourollahi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Siamak Nemati | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Mohammad Omri | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Vahdat Hanonov | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Saeid Sadeghi | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Shoja Khalilzadeh | Tractor | 1 |
| 26 | Ayoub El Amloud | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Soroush Rafiei | Persepolis | 1 |
| 26 | Giorgi Gvelesiani | Persepolis | 1 |
$^1$ Seyed-Salehi scored 2 goals as the Tractor player and 1 goal as the Persepolis player.

### Own goals

* Ahad Dayani (against Tractor)
* 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 | 8', 32', 43', 90' | 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 $^1$ | Persepolis | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 72% |
| 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% |
$^1$ Golmohammadi in Persepolis earned 8 wins and 2 losses, in Tractor earned 1 lost