Ehsan Noorafkan

Left Forward - Tractor
15 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ehsan Noorafkan

14 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alireza Hosseini

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Amir Shojaei signs for Esteghlal Khuzestan while still at Padideh

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Amir Shojaei has agreed terms with Esteghlal Khuzestan for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Match

Whatever happens, Padideh do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mohammad Karimi

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Vahid Azmoun is the division's best young player this month

At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Padideh will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad

Alireza Hosseini named player of the month

The award goes to Alireza Hosseini, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Loan watch

Ehsan Noorafkan wants to come home

“I did not go to Tractor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Padideh and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Squad

Words at Padideh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majid Shojaei 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.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Kaveh Gholizadeh

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Kaveh Gholizadeh has come out of that comparison in the side, and Padideh have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Mohammad Karimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Both of them Alireza Hosseini's — 8.14

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Saman Yazdani in a row with a teammate

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.

Squad

Real improvement from Morteza Rezaeian at Padideh

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Morteza Rezaeian is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Padideh find a way past Gostaresh Foulad

Gostaresh Foulad made Padideh work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Loan watch

Ehsan Noorafkan wants to come home

“I did not go to Tractor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Padideh and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

In brief

5 Edition

The Tractor Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Alireza Beiranvand out for 125 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tractor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Tractor

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Tempers go at Tractor

Ramón Ortigoza 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.

Squad

Tomislav Štrkalj gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Domagoj Drožđek runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Mehdi Hashemnejad

A mark of 7.01, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

No goals between Tractor and Padideh

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Padideh will be the happier side with the point.

Market

Tomislav Štrkalj placed on the list

Tractor have made Tomislav Štrkalj available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief