{"id":24754,"date":"2016-03-31T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24754"},"modified":"2016-03-31T22:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:33:45","slug":"iran-and-saudi-arabia-acl-clubs-to-play-in-oman-qatar-and-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/03\/31\/iran-and-saudi-arabia-acl-clubs-to-play-in-oman-qatar-and-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Saudi Arabia ACL clubs to play in Oman, Qatar and UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League 2016 matches involving clubs from Saudi Arabia and IR Iran will be played in Oman, Qatar, and the UAE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AFC Competitions Committee decided in January that the matches would be moved to neutral grounds if there had not been a return to normal relations between Saudi Arabia and IR Iran by March 15, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>With no significant developments in the relationship between the two countries by the deadline, both the Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF) and the IR Iran Football Federation (IRIFF) were required to propose neutral venues for their clubs\u2019 remaining fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>After assessing the proposals submitted by both Member Associations, the AFC approved the IRIFF\u2019s proposal to play their home matches in Oman and the SAFF\u2019s proposal to move their matches to Qatar and the UAE.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The full details of the matches are listed below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A \u2013 Match Day 5<br \/>\nApril 20, 2016          Al Ittihad (KSA) vs. Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan (IRN)<br \/>\nStadium:                   Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar<br \/>\nKick-off time:            1900 hrs<\/p>\n<p>Group B \u2013 Match Day 5<br \/>\nApril 20, 2016          Zobahan (IRN) vs. Al Nassr (KSA)<br \/>\nStadium:                   Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat,Oman<br \/>\nKick-off time:             2030 hrs<\/p>\n<p>Group B \u2013 Match Day 6<br \/>\nMay 04, 2016           Al Nassr (KSA) vs. Zobahan (IRN)<br \/>\nStadium:                   Rashid Stadium, Dubai, UAE<br \/>\nKick-off time:             2115 hrs<\/p>\n<p>Group C \u2013 Match Day 5<br \/>\nApril 19, 2016          Al Hilal (KSA) vs. Tractorsazi Tabriz (IRN)<br \/>\nStadium:                   Thani Bin Jassim Stadium, Doha, Qatar<br \/>\nKick-off time:            1835 hrs<\/p>\n<p>The venues for the two remaining matches &#8211; Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan (IRN) vs. Al Ittihad (KSA) and Tractorsazi Tabriz (IRN) vs. Al Hilal (KSA) &#8211; will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League 2016 matches involving clubs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2325,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754","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=24754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}