{"id":27817,"date":"2017-04-21T15:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27817"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T22:38:21","slug":"draw-for-afc-u-16-championship-2018-qualifiers-finalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/21\/draw-for-afc-u-16-championship-2018-qualifiers-finalised\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw for AFC U-16 Championship 2018 Qualifiers finalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Some 45 Member Associations from across Asia learned their opponents for the upcoming AFC U-16 Championship 2018 qualifiers on Friday following the official draw at AFC House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Iraq, have been grouped with India, Palestine and Nepal who will host the qualifiers in Group D, while the Islamic Republic of Iran &#8211; last year\u2019s runners-up &#8211; are scheduled to meet Kyrgyz Republic, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Bhutan in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, two-time champions and 2016 semi-finalists DPR Korea, will face Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Macau and Brunei Darussalam in Group F, with Japan, who also reached last year\u2019s semi-finals drawn in Group J, along with Singapore, Malaysia and Guam.<\/p>\n<p>The ten (10) group winners and five (5) best second-placed teams will advance to the final stage of the tournament, along with the host Member Association. The AFC U-16 Championship 2018 qualifiers are set to take place from September 16 to 24, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEST Zone<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup A:<br \/>\n1. Uzbekistan<br \/>\n2. Saudi Arabia (Host for qualifiers)<br \/>\n3. Jordan<br \/>\n4. Bahrain<br \/>\n5. Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Group B:<br \/>\n1. Oman<br \/>\n2. Tajikistan (Host for qualifiers)<br \/>\n3. Syria<br \/>\n4. Turkmenistan<br \/>\n5. Maldives<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C:<br \/>\n1. Islamic Republic of Iran (Host for qualifiers)<br \/>\n2. Kyrgyz Republic<br \/>\n3. Afghanistan<br \/>\n4. Lebanon<br \/>\n5. Bhutan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group D:<br \/>\n1. Iraq<br \/>\n2. India<br \/>\n3. Palestine<br \/>\n4. Nepal (Host for qualifiers)<\/p>\n<p>Group E:<br \/>\n1. United Arab Emirates<br \/>\n2. Yemen<br \/>\n3. Qatar (Host for qualifiers)<br \/>\n4. Bangladesh<\/p>\n<p><strong>EAST Zone<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup F:<br \/>\n1. DPR Korea<br \/>\n2. Hong Kong<br \/>\n3. Chinese Taipei<br \/>\n4. Macau<br \/>\n5. Brunei Darussalam<\/p>\n<p>Group G:<br \/>\n1. Thailand (Host for qualifiers)<br \/>\n2. Laos<br \/>\n3. Timor-Leste<br \/>\n4. Northern Mariana Islands<br \/>\n5. Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>Group H:<br \/>\n1. Korea Republic<br \/>\n2. China PR<br \/>\n3. Myanmar<br \/>\n4. Philippines<\/p>\n<p>Group I:<br \/>\n1. Vietnam<br \/>\n2. Australia<br \/>\n3. Mongolia  (Host for qualifiers)<br \/>\n4. Cambodia<\/p>\n<p>Group J:<br \/>\n1. Japan<br \/>\n2. Malaysia<br \/>\n3. Singapore<br \/>\n4. Guam<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Some 45 Member Associations from across Asia learned their opponents for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,137,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u16","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":4152,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27817","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=27817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}