{"id":12159,"date":"2011-05-15T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/15\/esteghlal-fans-set-record-in-afc-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T20:39:49","slug":"esteghlal-fans-set-record-in-afc-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/15\/esteghlal-fans-set-record-in-afc-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal fans set record in AFC Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"plargpicpane\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.farsnews.com\/Media\/9002\/ImageReports\/9002211347\/13_9002211347_L600.jpg\" alt=\"\u0647\u0648\u0627\u062f\u0627\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u062a\u064a\u0645 \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u062a\u0647\u0631\u0627\u0646\" height=\"231\" width=\"380\" \/><\/div>\n<p>TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) &#8212; <strong>Fans of Esteghlal have set a new record in the 2011 AFC Champions League group stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 85,000 spectators watched Esteghlal match against Al Nasr of  Saudi Arabia in Group B Match Day 6 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, AFC  reported. <\/p>\n<p>The AFC Champions League 2011 attendance figure after the group stage stands just shy of the one million mark. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 995,133 spectators watched the 96 group stage games played  across the 12 countries where the continent\u2019s top club tournament was  played. This gives an average of 10,365 per game. <span id=\"Newsdetails2_lblBody\"> <\/p>\n<p>The last match day saw the attendance spike up dramatically as more  than 85,000 fans turned up to see Iran\u2019s Esteghlal defeat Al Nassr 2-1  at the Azadi Stadium. Though the win pulled Esteghlal level with the  Saudis on the head-to-head record they failed to make it through to the  Round of 16 because of an inferior goals record. <\/p>\n<p>The second best watched match on the final day of action was the Al  Hilal versus Al Gharafa encounter at the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh.  The home side easily defeated Qataris Al Gharafa 2-0, setting up a  mouthwatering all-Saudi encounter with archrivals Al Ittihad of Jeddah. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"Newsdetails2_lblBody\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) &#8212; Fans of Esteghlal have set a new record in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":5251,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159","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\/22617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}