{"id":28081,"date":"2017-05-17T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28081"},"modified":"2017-05-17T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:37:06","slug":"iran-will-enter-race-for-2023-afc-asian-cup-masoud-soltanifar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/17\/iran-will-enter-race-for-2023-afc-asian-cup-masoud-soltanifar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran will enter race for 2023 AFC Asian Cup: Masoud Soltanifar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar says that they are ready to enter the race to host the 2023 Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran is hoping to stage the quadrennial event for the first time since 1976 when they defeated Kuwait 1-0 to win the title for the third time in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has hosted the prestigious tournament two times.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will hand in our formal bid to host the tournament. Iran has the ability to host the international competitions,\u201d Soltanifar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 3,800 unfinished projects and we\u2019ve completed 1,210 projects in the last four years,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Isfahan, we have a 75,000-seat stadium, in Tabriz, we have a 50,000-seat stadium and a stadium with the same capacity in Shiraz and Ahvaz. We also have well-equipped stadiums in the other cities,\u201d Soltanifar concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 AFC Asian Cup will be the 18th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men&#8217;s football championship of Asia organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will involve 24 national teams, including that of the host nation, assuming the current format of the finals is maintained.<\/p>\n<p> The winner of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup will earn the right to participate in the 2025 FIFA Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>China, Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand have already expressed interest in bidding for hosting the competition.<\/p>\n<p>IR Iran Football Federation had submitted final bids to host the 2019 AFC Asian Cup but the United Arab Emirates was awarded the hosting rights of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar says that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":4899,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28081","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=28081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}