Marked for Mohammad Ghoddos
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Triumph
Match5 Dec 2026
Padideh cannot stop winning
12 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad7 Dec 2026
5 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Dec 2026
Padideh march on in the cup
Foolad are out and Padideh go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match5 Dec 2026
6‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Ali Vafaei at 17 — 7.81
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ali Vafaei did not need any: 7.81, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match5 Dec 2026
Padideh are at home on the road
6 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Squad7 Dec 2026
44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Triumph
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Karim Rezaeian
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Padideh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
Padideh make it 9 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Padideh have 9 straight wins of it.
Match23 Nov 2026
Padideh refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 49 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match21 Nov 2026
4‑1, and Masoud Hajsafi took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Padideh tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.39, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Hossein Taremi out for 59 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Padideh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ramin Khodadad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nobody wins at Padideh
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
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Triumph
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match14 Nov 2026
Padideh make it 8 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Padideh have 8 straight wins of it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Hossein Taremi out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Padideh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Vouria Mohammadi at 21 — 8.04
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vouria Mohammadi did not need any: 8.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad16 Nov 2026
He is 20, he is averaging 7.39, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Morteza Taremi yet — 7.89
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.89 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Padideh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
Three points for Padideh, 3‑1 the final word against Esteghlal in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Mohammad Ghoddos has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Triumph
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
Padideh make it 8 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Padideh have 8 straight wins of it.
Match12 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Mohammad Ghoddos took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Padideh tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Hossein Taremi out for 131 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Padideh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.37, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ali Vafaei, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02
A mark of 8.02 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
Padideh supporters have found a favourite in Ali Vafaei
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Ali Vafaei has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Padideh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alireza Amirkhani is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ashkan Taremi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Triumph
Match15 Aug 2026
9‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Vouria Mohammadi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match15 Aug 2026
Padideh cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ramin Khodadad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
Hossein Karimi among the goals in a wild afternoon
9 goals in one match, Hossein Karimi on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Padideh and Naft Tehran.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Esteghlal Khuzestan, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Saeid Torabi, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Majid Beiranvand, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66
A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market10 Aug 2026
Saba come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Padideh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ramin Khodadad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Saba have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mohammad Ghoddos. The answer from Padideh has not changed — yet.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Saeid Torabi at his very best
Marked 9.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Padideh.