{"id":13020,"date":"2012-06-14T22:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T05:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/14\/acl-draw-sepahan-face-al-ahli\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T22:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T05:20:35","slug":"acl-draw-sepahan-face-al-ahli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/06\/14\/acl-draw-sepahan-face-al-ahli\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL draw: Sepahan face Al Ahli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"sepahan-cheer22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/sepahan-cheer22.jpg\" height=\"227\" width=\"350\" \/>GOAL &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Marcello Lippi&#8217;s big spenders have the pick of the matches away to two-time champions Al Ittihad, while Sepahan play host to Al Ahli and Al Hilal go to Ulsan Hyundai.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Big spending Chinese outfit Guangzhou Evergrande will face two-time Asian champions Al Ittihad in the pick of the games after the draw for the 2012 AFC Champions League quarterfinals was decided in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Marcello Lippi&#8217;s side will make the trip to Saudi Arabia for the first leg on September 19, before hosting the return leg in early October.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ittihad were one of three Saudi Arabian clubs in the draw, with Al Ahli drawn to face Iranian champions Sepahan, while Al Hilal meet Ulsan Hyundai. <\/p>\n<p>Australian outfit Adelaide United will renew their rivalry with Uzbek champions Bunyodkor, who they met in the 2008 semifinals as well as the 2012 group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the Al Ittihad-Guangzhou and Sepahan-Al Ahli clashes will meet in the semis, while the victors of the Adelaide-Bunyodkor and Ulsan-Al Hilal will meet in the final four, with the side to progress from that half of the draw to host the final on November 9 or 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarter-final draw:<\/strong><br \/>Al Ittihad v Guangzhou Evergrande<br \/>Sepahan v Al Ahli<br \/>Adelaide United v Bunyodkor <br \/>Ulsan Hyundai v Al Hilal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Marcello Lippi&#8217;s big spenders have the pick of the matches away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":5936,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020","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=13020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}