{"id":12034,"date":"2011-03-25T02:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T09:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/25\/u-16-qualifying-draw-format-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T02:41:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T09:41:35","slug":"u-16-qualifying-draw-format-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/25\/u-16-qualifying-draw-format-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"U-16 qualifying draw format confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/logo\/comps\/2011\/logo_u16_cship_3x2.jpg\" alt=\"logo_u16_cship_3x2\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, <strong>The draw for the 2012 AFC U-16 Championship qualifiers will be held at the AFC House on March 30. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-nine teams have entered the fray for this edition of the  tournament and have been divided into two zones \u2013 West (22) and East  (17).<\/p>\n<p>The teams will be divided into seven groups of six and five  teams each. West Zone will have two groups of six and two of five teams  while East will have two groups of six teams each and one of five.<\/p>\n<p>Top two teams from each of the groups and third best team from West and East zones will qualify for the tournament proper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TEAMS AND ZONES <\/p>\n<p>West by ranking<\/strong><br \/>1.  Uzbekistan, 2. UAE, 3. Syria, 4. Iraq, 5. <strong>Iran<\/strong>, 6. Kuwait, 7.  Tajikistan, 8. Oman, 9. Saudi Arabia, 10. Bahrain, 11. Yemen, 12.  Bangladesh, 13. Qatar, 14. Nepal, 15. Kyrgyzstan, 16. Pakistan, 17.  India, 18. Afghanistan, 19. Lebanon, 20. Palestine, 21. Maldives, 22.  Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>East by ranking<\/strong><br \/>1.\u00a0 DPR Korea, 2.  Australia, 3. Japan, 4. Indonesia, 5. Vietnam, 6. China, 7. Timor Leste,  8. Chinese Taipei, 9. Thailand, 10. Laos, 11. Hong Kong, 12. Singapore,  13. Korea Republic, 14. Myanmar, 15. Malaysia, 16. Guam, 17. Macau.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Kuala Lumpur, The draw for the 2012 AFC U-16 Championship qualifiers will be&#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-12034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3027,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034","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=12034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}