{"id":12141,"date":"2011-05-06T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/06\/acl-attendance-inches-towards-million-mark\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T03:17:10","slug":"acl-attendance-inches-towards-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/06\/acl-attendance-inches-towards-million-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL attendance inches towards million mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"acl_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/acl_logo.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>After match day 5 action in the AFC Champions League, the group stage attendance is inching towards the one million mark.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>A total of 823,846 fans have watched the 80 games \u2013 an average of  10,298 &#8211; played so far across the length and breadth of the continent. <\/p>\n<p>The  best match day 5 attendance was logged by the fans of Chinese outfit  Tianjin Teda, who qualified for the Round of 16 with a 3-0 rout of  Korean side Jeju United. More than 26,000 turned out to watch the  Chinese club earn their berth in the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian giants\u2019  Piroozi aka Persepolis\u2019 match against Saudi outfit Al Ittihad was  attended by more than 25,000 fans, who of course failed to fill out the  massive 100,000-seater Azadi Stadium. Despite Piroozi beating Al Ittihad  3-2 their chances of qualifying disappeared after Uzbeks Bunyodkor  stole a march on head-to-head to cross the tape.<\/p>\n<p>Korean side FC  Seoul was cheered by 23,000 fans as they beat UAE\u2019s Al Ain 3-0 at the  Seoul World Cup Stadium. FC Seoul have already qualified for the Round  of 16.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year the best attended match has been the  Piroozi versus Bunyodkor match, watched by more than 31,000 spectators  at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, After match day 5 action in the AFC Champions League, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2460,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","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=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}