{"id":16626,"date":"2013-12-10T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16626"},"modified":"2013-12-10T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:03:56","slug":"sepahan-in-tough-asian-champions-league-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/10\/sepahan-in-tough-asian-champions-league-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan in tough Asian Champions League draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran\u2019s Sepahan football team has been drawn in a tough group at the 2014 AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the draw which took place at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday, the four Iranian teams have been drawn in Group A to D.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan is in a tough group along with Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia, Al Ahli of the UAE and Qatar\u2019s Al Sadd.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 32 teams were divided into eight groups of four teams, based on region. East Asian and South-east Asian clubs are drawn in Group E to H, while the rest are grouped in Group A to D.<\/p>\n<p>Each group is a double round robin, which will see each side play six matches. The eight group winners and eight runners-up qualify for the Knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP A<\/strong><br \/>\nA1. Esteghlal (IRN)<br \/>\nA2. Al Rayyan (QAT)<br \/>\nA3. Al Jazira (UAE)<br \/>\nA4. Al Shabab (KSA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP B<\/strong><br \/>\nB1. Al Fateh (KSA)<br \/>\nB2. Foolad (IRN)<br \/>\nB3. Winner of Playoff 3.1 (West)<br \/>\nB4. Bunyodkor (UZB)<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP C<\/strong><br \/>\nC1. Al Ain (UAE)<br \/>\nC2. Al Ittihad (KSA)<br \/>\nC3. Tractor Sazi (IRN)<br \/>\nC4. Winner of Playoff 3.2 (West)<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP D<\/strong><br \/>\nD1. Al Sadd (QAT)<br \/>\nD2. Al Ahli (UAE)<br \/>\nD3. Al Hilal (KSA)<br \/>\nD4. Sepahan (IRN)<\/p>\n<p><strong>EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP E<\/strong><br \/>\nE1. Pohang Steelers (KOR)<br \/>\nE2. Buriram United (THA)<br \/>\nE3. Shandong Luneng Taishan (CHN)<br \/>\nE4. League 3rd place (JPN)<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP F<\/strong><br \/>\nF1. Sanfrecce Hiroshima (JPN)<br \/>\nF2. Central Coast Mariners (AUS)<br \/>\nF3. FC Seoul (KOR)<br \/>\nF4. Winner of Playoff 3.1 (East)<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP G<\/strong><br \/>\nG1. Guangzhou Evergrande (CHN)<br \/>\nG2. Knockout Champion (JPN)<br \/>\nG3. Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (KOR)<br \/>\nG4. Winner of Playoff 3.2 (East)<\/p>\n<p><strong>GROUP H<\/strong><br \/>\nH1. Western Sydney Wanderers (AUS)<br \/>\nH2. Guizhou Renhe (CHN)<br \/>\nH3. League Runner-up (JPN)<br \/>\nH4. Ulsan Hyundai (KOR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran\u2019s Sepahan football team has been drawn in a tough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3001,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626","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=16626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}