{"id":22758,"date":"2015-09-28T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22758"},"modified":"2015-09-28T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:16:49","slug":"afc-u-19-championship-qualifiers-set-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/09\/28\/afc-u-19-championship-qualifiers-set-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-19 Championship Qualifiers set to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The qualifiers for the AFC U-19 Championship 2016 are set to start on Monday, with Groups G and H getting the process underway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A total of 43 Member Associations including finals hosts Bahrain and reigning champions Qatar will compete in the qualifiers and they will be divided into two zones \u2013 the West Zone which has 25 teams and the East Zone with 18 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Ten group winners and five best second-placed teams will qualify for the finals while hosts Bahrain received an automatic qualification (total 16 teams).<\/p>\n<p>If Bahrain finish top of their qualifying group or one of the five second best-placed teams, the next (sixth) second placed team will qualify for the final competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEST ZONE<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup A: Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (hosts), Bhutan<br \/>\nGroup B: Yemen, Saudi Arabia (hosts), Turkmenistan, Syria<br \/>\nGroup C: UAE, Palestine (hosts), India, Afghanistan<br \/>\nGroup D: Qatar (hosts), Oman, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan<br \/>\nGroup E: Iran (hosts), Kuwait, Jordan, Nepal<br \/>\nGroup F: Iraq, Bahrain, Maldives, Tajikistan (hosts)<\/p>\n<p><strong>EAST ZONE<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup G: Myanmar, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Brunei, Timor-Leste<br \/>\nGroup H: Thailand, Korea Republic, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Northern Mariana Islands<br \/>\nGroup I: DPR Korea, China, Malaysia, Macau<br \/>\nGroup J: Japan, Australia, Philippines, Laos<\/p>\n<p>The qualifiers will conclude on October 6, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s first Group E match will be played on October 2nd, 2015 vs. Nepal.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The qualifiers for the AFC U-19 Championship 2016 are set to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,140,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u19","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2400,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758","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=22758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}