{"id":11160,"date":"2010-04-17T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/17\/esteghlal-fans-set-attendance-record\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T08:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:35:34","slug":"esteghlal-fans-set-attendance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/17\/esteghlal-fans-set-attendance-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal fans set attendance record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/azad8i-teheran.jpg\" alt=\"azad8i-teheran\" style=\"float: right;\" height=\"234\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Nearly 65,000 Esteghlal fans flocked to the cavernous Azadi Stadium in  Tehran and set a season attendance record on Tuesday when they watched  the hosts defeat Saudi rivals Al Ahli 2-1 and book their berth in the  AFC Champions League Round of 16.<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This was the highest attendance in five group stage matches this  season, surpassing the previous figure of 60,000 set during the  Esteghlal versus Al Gharafa match.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The second-best stadium  attendance record was notched up at the Prince Abdullah Al Faisal  Stadium in Jeddah when Saudi giants Al Ittihad and Uzbek side Bunyodkor  drew 1-1. Nearly 18,000 spectators had their tickets punched for this  game.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh saw 17,000  fans cheer on home side Al Hilal into the last 16 after a goalless  stalemate with Qatari rivals Al Sadd.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The total attendance for  match day 5 stood at 890,876.<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The overall attendance record this  season is about a 100,000 short of one million and this is expected to  be breached on the last match day.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Nearly 65,000 Esteghlal fans flocked to the cavernous Azadi Stadium in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":6179,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}