{"id":54724,"date":"2026-04-16T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54724"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:47:27","slug":"2025-26-pgpl-likely-to-be-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/04\/16\/2025-26-pgpl-likely-to-be-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"2025\/26 PGPL likely to be cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>After several intensive meetings in recent days aimed at determining the fate of the 2025\/26 Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL) season, new reports indicate a significant development: the competition is now considered unlikely to resume.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The uncertainty grew after the League Organization held two separate meetings with PGPL club officials\u2014sessions that were expected to provide clarity on the league\u2019s continuation but ultimately concluded without a definitive decision.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussions, clubs presented differing viewpoints, citing issues ranging from financial pressures and player salary obligations to the status of Iranian teams in Asian competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Several potential scenarios were put forward, including holding centralized fixtures or organizing a limited tournament among the top-ranked teams. However, none of the proposals reached a final agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, After several intensive meetings in recent days aimed at determining the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":92,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54724","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54725,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54724\/revisions\/54725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}