{"id":27924,"date":"2017-05-04T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27924"},"modified":"2017-05-04T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:29:34","slug":"saba-relegated-from-iran-first-division-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/04\/saba-relegated-from-iran-first-division-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Saba relegated from PGPL after 13 years in the top flight [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; QOM, <strong>Saba&#8217;s 13-year stay in the first division came to an end on Thursday after a 2-1 home defeat at the hands of Esteghlal Khuzestan sealed its relegation to the Azadegan League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meysam Majidi found the back of the net for Saba in the 37th minute from the penalty spot but Aliasghar Ashouri scored a brace for the visitors in the 45th and 88th minutes.  <\/p>\n<p>Saba joined Machine Sazi who were relegated from the PGPL three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis won the league title for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>Pars Jonoubi Jam and Sepidrood Rasht have sealed promotion to the Persian Gulf Pro League.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8dVm-wcyHXk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8dVm-wcyHXk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; QOM, Saba&#8217;s 13-year stay in the first division came to an end on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4006,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27924","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=27924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}