{"id":22632,"date":"2015-09-12T17:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T00:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22632"},"modified":"2015-09-12T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T00:21:29","slug":"iran-drawn-in-group-a-of-afc-under-23-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/09\/12\/iran-drawn-in-group-a-of-afc-under-23-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran drawn in Group A of AFC Under-23 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran has been drawn in Group A of the 2016 AFC Under-23 Championship on Saturday along with Qatar, Syria and China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official draw was conducted at the Four Seasons Hotel in the Qatari capital city of Doha on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>The 16 participating teams are split into four groups of four teams. The top two teams in each group (eight teams in total) will qualify for the knockout stage. <\/p>\n<p>The top three teams will qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Football Tournament. <\/p>\n<p><strong>AFC Under-23 Championship 2016 &#8211; Groups<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A:<\/strong> Qatar, Syria, Iran, China PR <\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B:<\/strong> Saudi Arabia, Japan, DPR Korea, Thailand <\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C:<\/strong> Iraq, Korea Republic, Uzbekistan, Yemen <\/p>\n<p><strong>Group D:<\/strong> Jordan, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Iran has been drawn in Group A of the 2016 AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2060,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632","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=22632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}