{"id":28544,"date":"2017-07-06T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28544"},"modified":"2017-07-06T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:42:37","slug":"afc-futsal-championship-2018-hopefuls-learn-their-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/07\/06\/afc-futsal-championship-2018-hopefuls-learn-their-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Championship 2018 hopefuls learn their opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>AFC Futsal Championship 2018 hopefuls discovered their qualifying opponents during the official draw at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teams competing in the qualifiers were divided into four zones &#8211; East, ASEAN, South &#038; Central and West where they were seeded within their zones based on the AFC Futsal Championship Uzbekistan 2016 ranking.<\/p>\n<p>In the East Zone and Central &#038; South Zone, seven teams from each zone were drawn into two groups of four and three teams respectively. The matches will be played from November 1 to 11 for the East Zone and October 13 to 22 for the Central &#038; South Zones.<\/p>\n<p>The ASEAN Football Federation Futsal Championship Vietnam 2017 on October 23 to November 3 will serve as the qualification competition for the ASEAN Zone with four slots up for grabs.<\/p>\n<p>In the West Zone, eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The Group Winners and Runners-up from each group will qualify for the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship on February 6 to 18. Sixteen teams will compete in the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran emerged Champions in the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship with Uzbekistan the Runners-up while Thailand and Vietnam finished third and fourth respectively .<\/p>\n<p><strong>DRAW RESULT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>East Zone<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup A: A1 Japan A2 Chinese Taipei A3 Macau A4 Mongolia<\/p>\n<p>Group B: B1 China PR B2 Korea Republic B3 Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p><strong>South &#038; Central Zone<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup A: A1 Uzbekistan A2 Kyrgyz Republic A3 Turkmenistan A4 Nepal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B: B1 Islamic Republic of Iran B2 Tajikistan B3 Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>West Zone<\/strong><br \/>\nGroup A: A1 Iraq A2 Saudi Arabia A3 United Arab Emirates A4 Bahrain<\/p>\n<p>Group B: B1 Qatar B2 Lebanon B3 Jordan B4 Syria<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, AFC Futsal Championship 2018 hopefuls discovered their qualifying opponents during the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4250,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544","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=28544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}