{"id":12031,"date":"2011-03-25T02:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T09:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/25\/iran-18th-in-asian-olympics-rankings\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T09:31:05","slug":"iran-18th-in-asian-olympics-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/25\/iran-18th-in-asian-olympics-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran 18th in Asian Olympics rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, <strong>The 2012 London Olympics men\u2019s football tournament Asian  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/men_olympic\/qualifiers\/2012\/300x200\/olympic_2010_logo.jpg\" height=\"243\" width=\"365\" \/>qualifiers will enter the second phase with a draw to be held at the AFC  House on March 30. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eleven teams, who have qualified from Round 1, will join the 13 direct entrants into the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait,  Thailand, Oman, UAE, Iran, Malaysia, Yemen, Hong Kong, Jordan, India  and Turkmenistan have won their respective first round encounters while  Korea Republic, Australia, China, Japan, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi  Arabia, DPR Korea, Syria, Lebanon, Uzbekistan and Vietnam were given  direct entry in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>The 24 teams have been ranked  on the basis of Asian qualifiers and final round of 2008 Beijing  Olympics men\u2019s football tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will be divided into 12 groups and will play home-and-away on June 19 and June 23.<\/p>\n<p>RANKINGS<\/p>\n<p>1.  Korea Republic, 2. Australia, 3. China, 4. Japan, 5. Iraq, 6. Bahrain,  7. Qatar, 8. Saudi Arabia, 9. DPR Korea, 10. Syria, 11. Lebanon, 12.  Uzbekistan, 13. Vietnam, 14. Kuwait, 15. Thailand, 16. Oman, 17. UAE,  18. <strong>Iran<\/strong>, 19. Malaysia, 20. Yemen, 21. Hong Kong, 22. Jordan, 23. India,  24. Turkmenistan.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, The 2012 London Olympics men\u2019s football tournament Asian qualifiers will enter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4371,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}