{"id":21602,"date":"2015-05-22T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T20:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21602"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T20:05:20","slug":"participants-for-afc-u-23-championship-qatar-2016-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/22\/participants-for-afc-u-23-championship-qatar-2016-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants For AFC U-23 Championship Qatar 2016 Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR &#8211; <strong>With Jordan sealing their passage to the AFC U-23 Championship Qatar 2016 on Wednesday, all the participants for January\u2019s prestigious event are now known.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In total, 16 teams will compete for honours and they include host nation Qatar, the ten qualifying group winners and the five teams who finished as the best second placed sides during qualification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualified teams:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qatar \u2013 hosts<br \/>\nIraq \u2013 winners Group A<br \/>\nJordan \u2013 Winners Group B<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia \u2013 Winners Group C<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates \u2013 Winners Group D<br \/>\nSyria \u2013 Winners Group E<br \/>\nAustralia \u2013 Winners Group F<br \/>\nDPR Korea \u2013 Winners Group G<br \/>\nKorea Republic \u2013 Winners Group H<br \/>\nJapan \u2013 Winners Group I<br \/>\nChina \u2013 Winners Group J<br \/>\nThailand \u2013 1st best second placed team<br \/>\nIran \u2013 2nd best second placed team<br \/>\nVietnam \u2013 3rd best second placed team<br \/>\nYemen \u2013 4th best second placed team<br \/>\nUzbekistan &#8211; 5th best second placed team<\/p>\n<p>The competition, which will see Iraq defending the title they won in 2013, will begin on January 12, 2016 with the final set to be played on January 30, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR &#8211; With Jordan sealing their passage to the AFC U-23 Championship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,139,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1674,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}