{"id":27042,"date":"2017-01-27T17:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27042"},"modified":"2017-01-27T17:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T01:53:40","slug":"persepolis-al-hilals-matches-to-be-held-in-muscat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/persepolis-al-hilals-matches-to-be-held-in-muscat\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis, Al Hilal\u2019s matches to be held in Muscat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran\u2019s Persepolis and Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia will play in Muscat, Oman in the 2017 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League group stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Persian Gulf Pro League professional football club and Saudi Arabian professional football team have chosen Oman as the neutral venue to host the forthcoming matches in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>The first match will be held at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat, Oman on February 21.<\/p>\n<p>The second match will be held in the same stadium on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 AFC Champions League group stage will be played from 20 February to 10 May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 32 teams compete in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the knockout stage of the 2017 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the tournament will qualify as the AFC representative for the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran\u2019s Persepolis and Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia will play in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2894,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042","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=27042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}