{"id":33341,"date":"2018-09-03T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33341"},"modified":"2018-09-03T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:30:02","slug":"esteghlal-persepolis-learn-fate-at-irans-hazfi-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/09\/03\/esteghlal-persepolis-learn-fate-at-irans-hazfi-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal, Persepolis learn fate at Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian football giants Esteghlal and Persepolis learned their fates in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup Round of 32 on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reigning champions Esteghlal will face Naft Masjed Soleyman in Masjed Soleyman whil Persepolis host first tier Navad Urmia in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Hazfi Cup is a knockout cup competition, run by the Iranian Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football league was not being held during the 1980s, hence the winners of Hazfi Cup represented Iran in the Asian Club Championship.<\/p>\n<p>After the revive of the league system, the champions of Iranian league qualified for Asian Club Championship and the winners of Hazfi Cup participated at the Asian Cup Winners&#8217; Cup. However, the Asian Cup Winners&#8217; Cup merged with the Asian Champions Cup in 2002-03 to form the AFC Champions League and Iran had been initially given two (and later four) slots in this competitions.<\/p>\n<p> The Iranian football federation decided to award one of Iran&#8217;s AFC Champions League spots to the winner of the Hazfi Cup, and since then, the winners of Hazfi Cup have always been allocated a spot in the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was founded in 1975. Esteghlal are the most successful club with seven titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian football giants Esteghlal and Persepolis learned their fates in Iran\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,135,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-irans-hazfi-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":822,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33341","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=33341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33343,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33341\/revisions\/33343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}