{"id":55151,"date":"2026-07-23T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55151"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:24:22","slug":"iran-u23-drawn-into-group-b-for-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/07\/23\/iran-u23-drawn-into-group-b-for-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran U23 drawn into Group B for Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua.net &#8211; NAGOYA, <strong>Iran will face China, the United Arab Emirates and the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Group B of the 2026 Asian Games men&#8217;s football tournament following Thursday&#8217;s draw in Nagoya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s tournament will feature 15 teams following Iraq&#8217;s withdrawal, with the top two sides from each of the four groups advancing to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Groups A, B and C each contain four teams, while Group D consists of three, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Host Japan will face Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and Hong Kong in Group A, while Vietnam was drawn alongside Uzbekistan, the Philippines and Kuwait in Group C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua.net &#8211; NAGOYA, Iran will face China, the United Arab Emirates and the Democratic People&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":90,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55151","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=55151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55154,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55151\/revisions\/55154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}