Machine Sazi F.C.

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Machine Sazi
ماشین‌سازی

Full name	Machine Sazi Tabriz Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Green Machine (Persian: ماشین سبز)
Founded	1969
Dissolved	2022
Owner	Younes Ghorbani
Chairman	Seyyed Mohammad Alavi
Head Coach	Alireza Akbarpour
League	League 3 (Iran)
2021–22	Azadegan League 18th (relegated)
Website	http://www.mst-club.ir/
Home colours Away colours

Machine Sazi Tabriz Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال ماشین‌سازی تبریز, Bashgah-e Futbal-e Mashinsazi-ye Tebriz) more commonly known as Machine Sazi was an Iranian professional football club based in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan, Iran competing in the Azadegan League.

In 1969, Machine Sazi Tabriz Industrial Group decided to create a new football team by the name of Machine Sazi. Machine Sazi Tabriz football club played its first official match in 1970.

In 1973, the Takht Jamshid Cup was established. The Takht Jamshid Cup, was Iran's first ever nationwide football league and Machine Sazi entered the league in its first year of establishment in 1973. The club participated in Takht Jamshid Cup between 1973 and 1977.

Like most sporting clubs in Iran, the Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War severely limited the team's activities. From 1979 to 1980 the club participated in almost no meaningful competitions.

In 1980 the Tabriz Football League and Tabriz Hazfi Cup was established. Machine Sazi participated in the Tabriz Football League and Tabriz Hazfi Cup between 1980 and 1988. Machine Sazi was the most successful Tabriz Football League club, winning seven championship titles and finishing two times as runners-up. The club also won the Tabriz Hazfi Cup six times. After the war the local and provincial leagues were scrapped in favor of nationwide leagues.

After the war, the Azadegan League was established as Iran's national league. Machine Sazi was promoted to the Azadegan League in 1994. They stayed in the Azadegan League for two seasons and the club finished 8th the following year. But, in 1997 the club was relegated to the 2nd Division. Machine Sazi played in the 2nd Division between 1997 and 2001 until the Iran Pro League was formed.

With the launch of Iran Pro League in 2001, Machine Sazi were placed into the Azadegan League. After a 3rd-place finish in the new Azadegan League's inaugural season, Machine Sazi had a string of mid table finishes. In the 2007–08 season the club finished 11th in the Azadegan League and was relegated to 2nd Division but following the Iranian Football Federations' decision to increase the number of teams in the league to 28, Machine Sazi remained in the Azadegan League.

The club had a mixed start to the 2008–09 season in the Azadegan League. 2008 heralded major changes for Machine Sazi, as the terrible state of the club's finances was revealed; they were unable to pay wages and had massive debts. After a drop in form, recording 10 losses in 12 matches, Asghar Etebari was sacked as manager and was replaced by Sirous Bayrami. In March 2008 Javad Shahlaei resigned as chairman and Farhad Sedaghat was elected chairman by the club council. Seyed Javad Mousavi was brought in as the new club manager. Machine Sazi finished 13th in the 2008–09 Azadegan League season. Thus, being relegated to 2nd Division.

On 25 April 2009 the club was bought by businessman Shahram Dabiri. After a year in the 2nd Division, Machine Sazi bought the licence of a club in the Azadegan League and was allowed to compete in the 2010–11 edition of the league. Following a 3rd-place finish in 2012 which almost brought the club back to the Iran Pro League, the club was again relegated to the 2nd Division in 2013. Machine Sazi escaped relegation to the 3rd Division the following year via a relegation play–off.

Following Machine Sazi's dismal 2013–14 season the team was taken over by the Municipality of Tabriz.

In June 2015 Machine Sazi replaced Shahrdari Tabriz in the 2015–16 Azadegan League as East Azerbaijan's representative. In winter of 2016 Rasoul Khatibi was named head coach of Machine Sazi and the club began the push for promotion to the Persian Gulf Pro League. On 10 May 2016 after a 3–0 win against Mes Rafsanjan, Machine Sazi confirmed their promotion to the Persian Gulf Pro League after a 19-year absence from the top flight of Iranian football. Machine Sazi managed to draw 1–1 with Esteghlal at the Azadi Stadium in week 5.

Khatibi was fired midway through the season for Machine's bad performances and was replaced with Farhad Kazemi. Machine Sazi finished the season in last place and were relegated to the Azadegan League once again. In the season of 2018–19, the club replaced the Gostaresh Foulad and returned to the top flight.

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 Mohammad Bagher Sadeghi 2 DF  IRN Fardin Abedini 3 DF  IRN Ali Jalilzadeh 4 DF  IRN Meysam Bagheri 5 DF  IRN Bahman Kamel 6 DF  IRN Mohammad Rasoul Goudarzi 7 MF  IRN Babak Alizadeh 8 MF  IRN Amir Shahsavari 9 FW  IRN Mohammad Hossein Bayrami 10 FW  IRN Zabihollah Kohkan 11 FW  IRN Akbar Khodadadeh

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  IRN Aliraza Jafarpour 14 MF  IRN Amirreza Bakhshi 15 DF  IRN Majid Eydi 16 MF  IRN Alireza Nadimi 17 FW  IRN Fardin Seyfipour 18 FW  IRN Mohammad Aboutorabi 19 DF  IRN Amirreza Najafizadeh 20 MF  IRN Meysam Namvar 21 GK  IRN Amir Faal 22 GK  IRN Erfan Akrami 23 MF  IRN Sadigh Barani

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2022-23.

Before the construction of Sahand Stadium, Machine Sazi played all of its matches at Bagh Shomal Stadium, which currently has a capacity of 25,000. They occasionally play big games at Sahand Stadium. Football academy and training ground of Machine sazi is Marzdaran Stadium.^[1]

1969–71

1971–73

1973–74

1974–75

1975–76

1976–77

1977–82

1982–84

1984–88

1988–03

2003–05

2005–

Name	Period
Mohammad Ranjbar	1972–73
Ali Hashemi	1973–77
Garnik Mehrabian	1978–80
Hossein Fekri	1980–83
Ali Shirdel	1983–88
Yaghob Zeynali	1988–89
Hesam Golzar	1989–90
Biyok Sabaghi	1990–91
Asif Namazov	1991–92
Rahim Mehnamaye Aghdam	1994–95
Nasser Hejazi	1995–96
Adrian Szabo	1996–97
Hamid Nadimian
Majid Jahanpour	2001–02
Asghar Etebari	2002–03
Nasser Hejazi	2003
Vagif Sadygov	2003
Boyukagha Hajiyev	2003–04
Gholamhossein Karimpour	2004–05
Ahad Sheykhlari	2005–06
Gholamreza Baghabadi	July 2006 – July 7
Ali Nikbakht	July 2007 – Feb 08
Gholamreza Baghabadi	Feb 2008 – June 8
Asghar Etebari	July 2008 – Jan 09
Sirous Bayrami	Jan 2009 – April 9
Seyed Javad Mousavi	April 2009 – Oct 10
Ahad Sheykhlari	Oct 2010 – Sept 10
Ayyoub Zolfaghari	Sept 2010 – Dec 10
Zoran Smilevski	Dec 2010 – June 11
Rasoul Khatibi	June 2011 – July 12
Nasser Ebrahimi	Aug 2012 – Sept 12
Alireza Akbarpour	Sept 2012 – Nov 12
Asghar Etebari	Nov 2012 – Jan 13
Hossein Khatibi	Jan 2013 – March 13
Vali Hatami	March 2013 – Aug 13
Amir Dadash Ziaee	Aug 2013 – Sept 13
Seyed Javad Mousavi	Sept 2013
Saeed Parkhideh	Sept 2013 – Oct 13
Seyed Reza Sadat	Oct 2013 – Jan 14
Omid Tayeri	Jan 2014 – Feb 14
Amin Haml Abadi	Feb 2014 – March 14
Younes Bahonar	March 2014 – April 14
Amir Dadashziaei	April 2014 – Sept 14
Gholamreza Baghabadi	Sept 2014 – June 15
Nader Dastneshan	June 2015 – Nov 15
Rasoul Khatibi	Nov 2015– Dec 16
Farhad Kazemi	Dec 2016– Jul 17
Rasoul Khatibi	Jul 2017– Dec 17
Firouz Karimi	Jul 2018– Aug 18
Mohammad Reza Mohajeri	Aug 2018– Jan 19
Rasoul Khatibi	Jan 2019- Jun 19
Ahad Sheykhlari	Jun 2019- Feb 20
Human Afazeli	Feb 2020- Aug 20
Vahid Bayatloo	Aug 2020-May 2021
Alireza Akbarpour	May 2021-

mohanmad saeid akhbari 2020

Position	Name	Nation
Head coach	Alireza Akbarpour
Assistant managers	Gholamreza Baghabadi Naser farshbaf Adel Baba Pour
Goalkeeping coach	Davood faal
Fitness coach	Hamidreza joudaki
Analyzer	Bakhtiar Hosseinzadeh
Team manager[2]	Mohammad Pirozram

• Azadegan League
  • Runners-up (1): 2015–16

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