{"id":34192,"date":"2018-11-17T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34192"},"modified":"2018-11-17T08:06:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T16:06:39","slug":"saipa-and-zob-ahan-learn-fates-at-acl-qualifying-play-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/11\/17\/saipa-and-zob-ahan-learn-fates-at-acl-qualifying-play-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipa and Zob Ahan learn fates at ACL qualifying play-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iranian football clubs Saipa and Zob Ahan have learned their fates at the 2019 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saipa will face Indian Minerva Punjab on Feb. 12 in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan will also meet the winners of Al-Wehdat of Jordan and Kuwait\u2019s Al-Kuwait on Feb. 12 in Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis as Iran Professional League champions and Esteghlal, champions of Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup, will represent the country in ACL group stage.<\/p>\n<p>In the qualifying play-offs, each tie is played as a single match. Extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winners if necessary (Regulations Article 9.2). The eight winners of the play-off round advance to the group stage to join the 24 direct entrants. All losers in each round from associations with only play-off slots enter the AFC Cup group stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iranian football clubs Saipa and Zob Ahan have learned their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34192","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"],"views":774,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34192","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=34192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34194,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34192\/revisions\/34194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}