{"id":24207,"date":"2016-02-03T22:08:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T06:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24207"},"modified":"2016-02-03T22:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T06:08:57","slug":"afc-futsal-championship-2016-top-five-teams-to-qualify-for-fifa-futsal-world-cup-colombia-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/03\/afc-futsal-championship-2016-top-five-teams-to-qualify-for-fifa-futsal-world-cup-colombia-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Championship 2016: Top five teams to qualify for FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>With less than a week to go until the start of the eagerly anticipated AFC Futsal Championship Uzbekistan 2016, join the-afc.com as we take a look at all you need to know ahead of the tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUALIFIED TEAMS<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup A: Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia<br \/>\n<strong>Group B: Iran, Iraq, China, Jordan<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup C: Thailand, Vietnam, Chinese Taipei, Tajikistan<br \/>\nGroup D: Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Qatar<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOURNAMENT FORMAT<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe 16 participating teams have been divided into four groups of four teams and each group will play a one-round league where each team in the group will play one match against every other team.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in each group (eight teams in total) will qualify for the knockout stage and the four winners of the quarter-finals will qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the semi-finals will advance to the final and the two losing teams will play in the 3rd\/4th placing match. The four losers of the quarter-finals will then feature in play-off matches to determine the 5th placed team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT\u2019S ON OFFER<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nApart from the AFC Futsal Championship Uzbekistan 2016 title, the top five teams will qualify for the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEY FIXTURES:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n10 Feb 2016: Opening match &#8211; Iraq v China<br \/>\n17 Feb 2016: Quarter-finals<br \/>\n18 Feb 2016: Play-offs for four losing quarter-finalists<br \/>\n19 Feb 2016: 5th place play-off, semi-finals<br \/>\n21 Feb 2016: 3rd\/4th place match, final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TASHKENT, With less than a week to go until the start of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2106,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207","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=24207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}