{"id":27648,"date":"2017-03-30T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27648"},"modified":"2017-03-30T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:40:08","slug":"iran-discover-rivals-at-afc-futsal-u-20-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/30\/iran-discover-rivals-at-afc-futsal-u-20-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran discover rivals at AFC Futsal U-20 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Twenty-one AFC Futsal U-20 Championship Thailand 2017 hopefuls learned their opponents on Thursday when the official draw for the inaugural competition took place in the capital of Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 21 teams were drawn into one group of six teams and three groups of five teams.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will take place in the Thai capital from May 16 to 26, 2017 at the Bangkok Arena and the Huamark Indoor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The group winners and runners-up from each group, eight teams in total, will qualify for the knockout stage (quarter-finals).<\/p>\n<p>The four winners of the quarter-finals will qualify to the semi-finals, and subsequently the winners of the semi-finals will advance to the final, while the two losing teams will play in the third place Play-off match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A1 Thailand (hosts)<\/p>\n<p>A2 Iraq<\/p>\n<p>A3 Malaysia<\/p>\n<p>A4 Brunei Darussalam<\/p>\n<p>A5 Bahrain<\/p>\n<p>A6 Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>B1 Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>B2 Japan<\/p>\n<p>B3 Chinese Taipei<\/p>\n<p>B4 Tajikistan<\/p>\n<p>B5 Indonesia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C1 Uzbekistan<\/p>\n<p>C2 Qatar<\/p>\n<p>C3 Lebanon<\/p>\n<p>C4 Myanmar<\/p>\n<p>C5 Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>D1 Islamic Republic of Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>D2 Kyrgyz Republic<\/p>\n<p>D3 China PR<\/p>\n<p>D4 Mongolia<\/p>\n<p>D5 United Arab Emirates<\/p>\n<p>(Source: the-afc)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Twenty-one AFC Futsal U-20 Championship Thailand 2017 hopefuls learned their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,140,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u19","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":6219,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648","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=27648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}