{"id":28292,"date":"2017-06-06T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T00:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28292"},"modified":"2017-06-06T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T00:34:06","slug":"persepolis-to-meet-al-ahli-of-saudi-arabia-in-acl-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/06\/06\/persepolis-to-meet-al-ahli-of-saudi-arabia-in-acl-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis to meet Al-Ahli of Saudi Arabia in ACL quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Persepolis football team from Iran have been drawn with Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Ahli in the 2017 AFC Champions Lea<\/strong>gue quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>In the competition\u2019s Knockout Stage draw held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday, Persepolis will face Al-Ahli on August 22 in the first leg and will play the Saudi Arabian team on September 12 in the second leg.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian Football Confederation ruled during the group stage that matches between teams from Iran and Saudi Arabia would be moved to neutral venues until there was a return to normal diplomatic relations between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>2016 runners-up Al-Ain will meet Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Hilal in another quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in East Asia, China\u2019s Shanghai SIPG will come up against domestic rivals and two-time AFC Champions League winners Guangzhou Evergrande, while Kawasaki Frontale of Japan have been drawn to face compatriots and 2007 winners Urawa Red Diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>For the competition\u2019s semi-finals, the winners of both QF1 (Al-Ain v Al-Hilal) and QF3 (Shanghai SIPG v Guangzhou Evergrande) will host the first leg, with the winners of QF2 (Persepolis v Al-Ahli) and QF4 (Kawasaki Frontale v Urawa Red Diamonds) due to host the return fixture.<\/p>\n<p>While for the final, the winners of SF1 &#8211; West Asia &#8211; will host the first leg, and the winner of SF2 &#8211; East Asia &#8211; will host the second leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Persepolis football team from Iran have been drawn with Saudi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":5308,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292","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=28292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}