125 Matches on a Three-Year Deal: Beiranvand Set to Fully Move Past Persepolis!

Extending Beiranvand's contract could make Tractor one of the two main clubs in his career.

According to Sport Se, Alireza Biranvand's new contract with Tractor has put an interesting comparison in front of this goalkeeper. He is now spending his third season in Tabriz, and continuing to work for three more seasons can increase the number of seasons in Tractor to six. A number equal to the total seasons that Biranvand played for Persepolis in two periods.

Biranvand was a member of Persepolis for four seasons from the summer of 2015 to the summer of 2019, and after two seasons in European football, he returned in the summer of 2011 to play for this team for two more seasons. The result of these two periods was 199 official matches, which is still the most number of his games for one club. With this history, Persepolis has the first place in Biranund's club record.

Traktor is still far from Persepolis in terms of the number of matches. Biranvand has played 74 times for Tabrizi Red Lions and is approaching his 85 games for Naft Tehran. With 12 more appearances in Tractor, he will pass Naft so that Tabrizi will become the second team in his career in terms of the number of official matches.

This comparison becomes more interesting when we consider Biranund's European period. He played 12 games for Antwerp and 9 for Boavista. In this way, the number of his games in Tractor is more than three times the total of his appearances in two European clubs. In the third season of cooperation, Tabriz has taken a significant share of the career of the goalkeeper of the Iranian team.

In terms of honors, Biranvand entered the history of the club in his first season at Tractor. He was one of the members of the team that won the first Premier League championship for Tabrizi. Recording 16 clean sheets in 29 league matches was an important individual contribution to that success and made the first year of cooperation a lasting memory for the goalkeeper and the fans.

Of course, the weight of the Persepolis era in Biranvand's record is not limited to the number of seasons and competitions. Domestic championships and participation in the finals of the Asian Champions League in 2018 have become part of his most important club experiences. In order to reach such a position, Tractor has the opportunity to add new honors to Biranvand's presence in the coming years.

Drafting also has an effect on the number of games Biranvand will play during this period. He announced that he will go to the service on the first of November and will return to the tractor after the end of this period. Therefore, the cooperation period reaching six seasons does not necessarily mean six seasons of full participation in the competitions, and his time away from the team will be important in this comparison.

With the new contract, Biranvand has the opportunity to turn Traktor into one of his longest club seasons alongside Persepolis. There is still a long way to go to reach 199 matches, but three more seasons can significantly increase Tabriz's share. How much weight this period will have on his career at the end will depend on the games and trophies he will win after returning to the tractor jersey.

If Biranvand plays 40 games in the Tractor team every season, he will have a chance to add 120 games to his record, and in that case, maybe with three seasons in Tractor, his record will pass Persepolis. However, it is not clear how much Alireza Biranvand will commit to this three-year contract and whether he will continue to work at Tractor until the end of it or not.