Faraz Kamalvand (Persian: فراز کمالوند, born 26 December 1976) is an Iranian football coach. He is currently the Head-coach of Sanat Naft since March 2024.

Faraz Kamalvand
Kamalvand in 2021
Personal information
Full name Faraz Kamalvand
Date of birth (1976-12-26) December 26, 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Abadan, Iran
Team information
Current team
Kheybar Khorramabad
Managerial career
Years Team
1996–2002 Pas B
2002–2003 Esteghlal Ahvaz (assistant)
2005 Payam Khorasan
2006–2007 Shirin Faraz
2007–2008 Sanaye Arak
2008 Sorkhpooshan
2008–2011 Tractor
2011–2012 Pas Hamedan
2012–2013 Shahrdari Tabriz
2014–2017 Gostaresh
2017–2018 Sanat Naft
2018 Oxin Alborz
2018–2019 Aluminium Arak
2019 Pars Jonoubi
2020–2021 Shahin Bushehr
2021 Esteghlal (Technical manager)
2021 Saipa
2021 Tractor
2021 Naft Masjed Soleyman
2021–2022 F.C. Kheybar Khorramabad
2024– Sanat Naft

Early life

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He was born on 27 December 1976 in Khoramabad,[1] Iran and is from Lorestan. From 1998 to 2001, He worked for Abrarvarzeshi Newspaper and was a sport journalist. He learned coaching with Firouz Karimi. Karimi nominated him to PAS Tehran chairman, Hamid Malahi as club's Under-19 team. With PAS, he won club's first under-19 championship. He was Assistant manager of Esteghlal Ahvaz along with Karimi in 2002.

Coaching career

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Kamalvand is youngest head coach history of Iran Pro League[2] He became famous after coaching Shirin Faraz and promoting to Persian Gulf Cup in 2006-07 season. He was appointed as the Tractor manager in the summer of 2008. Tractor won 2008–09 Azadegan League and promoted to Iran Pro League with Kamalvand after eight years. The best result of Tractor in the highest Iranian division under his coaching was fifth in 2010-11 Persian Gulf Cup. In June 2011, Kamalvand's contract expired and Amir Ghalenoei was appointed as Tractor's coach on 13 June 2011[3] He was named as PAS Hamedan F.C.'s new head coach on 18 June 2011.[4] He resigned on 18 January 2012 after some bad results and was appointed as new head coach of Shahrdari Tabriz on 14 June 2012 and then On 4 October 2014, Kamalvand officially took over as the head coach of Gostaresh. after 3 seasons He joined at the Sanaat Naft as head coach. Kamalvand achieved the best result in the history of Gostaresh and Sanaat Naft in Persian Gulf Pro League in 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Then after a season in the Azadegan League with Gol Reyhan Alborz F.C. and Aluminium Arak, he returned to the Persian Gulf Pro League with Pars Jonoubi.

Statistics

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As of 10 July 2021
Team From To Record
G W D L Win % GF GA +/-
Shirin Faraz July 2006 July 2007 23 12 7 4 52.17 30 13 +17
Tractor July 2008 July 2011 94 42 32 20 44.68 128 92 +36
PAS Hamedan July 2011 January 2012 13 5 5 3 38.46 16 14 +2
Shahrdari Tabriz June 2012 April 2013 27 13 8 6 48.14 33 20 +13
Gostaresh October 2014 May 2017 84 25 34 25 29.76 100 86 +14
Sanat Naft May 2017 June 2018 34 13 19 11 38.23 43 41 +2
Gol Reyhan Alborz July 2018 October 2018 10 4 4 2 40.00 6 4 +2
Aluminium Arak December 2018 May 2019 15 6 7 2 40.00 11 6 +5
Pars Jonoubi Jam June 2019 December 2019 15 1 8 6 6.66 11 17 -6
Shahin Bushehr October 2020 March 2021 16 5 8 3 31.25 9 7 +2
Saipa May 2021 July 2021 7 1 2 4 14.28 7 11 -4
Total 338 127 134 86 37.57 394 311 +83

Honours

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Shirin Faraz
Tractor

References

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  1. ^ [1] Archived March 26, 2014, at the Wayback Machine www.18ghadam.ir (Iranian Soccer Fans-Farsi)
  2. ^ "Persepolis striker moves to Teraktorsazi". Tehran Times. June 28, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  3. ^ . Ghalenoei becomes Tractor's head coach
  4. ^ Faraz Kamalvand became head coach of PAS Hamedan
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