{"id":30041,"date":"2017-12-12T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30041"},"modified":"2017-12-12T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:57:00","slug":"iran-discover-opponents-for-afc-futsal-championship-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/12\/iran-discover-opponents-for-afc-futsal-championship-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran discover opponents for AFC Futsal Championship 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Reigning champions Iran, who have won the title 11 times, were drawn in Group C alongside Iraq, China PR and Myanmar in the AFC Futsal Championship 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three-time winners Japan will have Uzbekistan, Korea Republic and Tajikistan for company in Group B. Japan last won the tournament with back-to-back titles in 2012-2014 with their first being in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN powerhouse Thailand will face off against the Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon and Jordan in Group D.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand, who recently won the AFF Futsal Championship 2017, were runners-up in 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam, who finished fourth in Uzbekistan 2016, will face off against hosts Chinese Taipei, Malaysia and Bahrain in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams in each group will advance to the quarter-finals. The first matches will be played on February 1, 2018, with the final set for February 11.<\/p>\n<p>The 15th edition of the AFC Futsal Championship will be played in Chinese Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will kick off the competition with a match against Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Reigning champions Iran, who have won the title 11 times, were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30041","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":1162,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041","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=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}