Chadormalu claimed a narrow 1:0 win over Shams Azar Kazvin in the Persian Gulf Pro League's sixth regular season round on Saturday, 6 September 2026. The result keeps both sides level on five points in the table, though the hosts move up to thirteenth while the visitors drop to twelfth. We had tipped a home victory at 44 per cent confidence, and it came true — not through dominance, but through one moment when it mattered.
The match stayed level for most of its first half, with neither side creating much. Chadormalu's A. Mohkamkar picked up a yellow card in the fortieth minute, a sign of the physical tone. Then came the blitz of substitutions at the break: three changes for Shams Azar Kazvin in quick succession, trying to shift the momentum. By then the game felt like it was waiting for something to break.
Chadormalu made two changes at sixty-one minutes, bringing on S. Hosseini and R. Dehghan. The visitors added A. Arta in the seventieth and R. Mirzaei four minutes later, looking for an answer. Discipline frayed — R. Mahmoudabadi was booked in the seventy-eighth, M. Sourgi in the eightieth, and Sourgi was then substituted off in the eighty-first after his second caution.
Then came the moment. In the eighty-third minute Renny found the net, and the match turned. The visitors pushed for a response but could not find the equaliser. M. Tabatabaei and D. Torres both received yellow cards on either side of the eighty-seventh minute, and S. M. Hosseini was booked in stoppage time. Both sides ended with three yellows and no reds, but the difference was in the scoreline.
Chadormalu's win ends a run of poor form — their last five matches produced just one draw and four defeats. Shams Azar Kazvin had shown more resilience before this, including a 2:0 victory over Nassaji Mazandaran, but could not hold out against the hosts. The result leaves both teams on five points from six games, separated only by position in the table.
