{"id":26999,"date":"2017-01-21T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26999"},"modified":"2017-01-21T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T16:19:29","slug":"iran-learn-afc-womens-asian-cup-2018-qualifying-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/21\/iran-learn-afc-womens-asian-cup-2018-qualifying-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran learn AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup 2018 qualifying opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Twenty-one nations learned their opponents for the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup Jordan 2018 qualifiers when the official draw was held in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Korea Republic, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, Myanmar, Chinese Taipei, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, India, Palestine, DPR Korea, Guam, Iraq, Singapore, Syria, Tajikistan and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Draw Result<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A: A1 Jordan A2 Philippines A3 Bahrain A4 Iraq A5 UAE A6 Tajikistan (hosts)<br \/>\nGroup B: B1 Korea Republic B2 Uzbekistan B3 Hong Kong B4 India B5 DPR Korea (hosts)<br \/>\nGroup C: C1 Thailand C2 Chinese Taipei C3 Lebanon C4 Palestine (hosts) C5 Guam<br \/>\nGroup D: D1 Vietnam (hosts) D2 Myanmar D3 IR Iran D4 Syria D5 Singapore<\/p>\n<p>The three highest-ranked women\u2019s national teams from the last AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup \u2013 Japan, Australia and China PR &#8211; received automatic qualification into the eight-team finals. The group winners of each of the four qualifying groups will qualify for the finals in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan as hosts also received automatic qualification, but they have expressed interest to participate in the qualifiers. Therefore, if case they finish top of their qualifying group, the runner-up team will also advance to the final competition. The qualifiers will kick off on April 3, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The finals, which will be held from April 7 to 22, 2018, which will also serve as the Asian qualifiers for the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup France 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Match Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A<br \/>\nApril 3: A3 v A1, A4 v A6, A2 v A5<br \/>\nApril 5: A1 v A5, A2 v A4, A3 v A6<br \/>\nApril 7: A5 v A3, A6 v A2, A1 v A4<br \/>\nApril 10: A4 v A5, A6 v A1, A2 v A3<br \/>\nApril 12: A5 v A6, A3 v A4, A1 v A2<\/p>\n<p>Groups B through D<br \/>\nApril 3: BCD3 v BCD 2, BCD5 v BCD4<br \/>\nApril 5: BCD4 v BCD1, BCD5 v BCD3<br \/>\nApril 7: BCD1 v BCD5, BCD2 v BCD4<br \/>\nApril 9: BCD2 v BCD5, BCD3 v BCD1<br \/>\nApril 11: BCD4 v BCD3, BCD1 v BCD2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Twenty-one nations learned their opponents for the AFC Women\u2019s Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens"],"views":4189,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26999","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=26999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}