{"id":11418,"date":"2010-08-13T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/13\/35-teams-to-vie-for-2012-olympics-slots\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T14:36:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T21:36:28","slug":"35-teams-to-vie-for-2012-olympics-slots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/13\/35-teams-to-vie-for-2012-olympics-slots\/","title":{"rendered":"35 teams to vie for 2012 Olympics slots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/logo\/comps\/logo_london2012_asian_quali_3x2.gif\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>AFC has announced the format of the 2012 London Olympics preliminary men\u2019s football competition. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five teams have entered the fray for three-and-a-half  slots in the men\u2019s Olympics football tournament. Twenty-two lowest  ranked teams will play home-and-away playoff in Round One and the  winners will qualify for the second round. <\/p>\n<p>First leg of the first round will be played on February 23, 2011, while the return leg will be played on March 9, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The  Round One winners will join 13 highest ranked teams in Round Two and 12  teams will make it to the third round after playing home-and-away  playoff on June 19, 2011, and June 23, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will be  divided into three groups of four teams each in the third round which  will have a home-and-away format. The winners of each group will qualify  for the 2012 London Olympics. All the second-placed teams will play in a  round robin format and the winner will take on CAF\u2019s representative for  a place in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The third round matches will be played  on September 21, 2011, November 23, November 27, February 5, 2012,  February 22 and March 14. The round robin matches between the  second-placed teams will be played at a centralised venue from March 25  to 29, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MATCH DAYS<\/p>\n<p>Round 1<br \/>MD1: <\/strong>February 23, 2011<br \/><strong>MD2:<\/strong> March 9, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 2<br \/>MD1:<\/strong> June 19, 2011<br \/><strong>MD2:<\/strong> June 23, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 3<br \/>MD1: <\/strong>September 21, 2011<br \/><strong>MD2:<\/strong> November 23, 2011<br \/><strong>MD3: <\/strong>November 27, 2011<br \/><strong>MD4: <\/strong>February 5, 2012<br \/><strong>MD5:<\/strong> February 22, 2012<br \/><strong>MD6: <\/strong>March 14, 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playoff<br \/>MD1-MD3: <\/strong>March 25-29, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, AFC has announced the format of the 2012 London Olympics preliminary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3059,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}