{"id":34253,"date":"2018-11-22T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34253"},"modified":"2018-11-22T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T20:06:26","slug":"esteghlal-in-group-of-death-in-2019-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/11\/22\/esteghlal-in-group-of-death-in-2019-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal in \u2018Group of Death\u2019 in 2019 ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran\u2019s Esteghlal and Persepolis learned their fates at the new season of the 2019 AFC Champions League (IPL) on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The challenge for the group stage of the ACL was finalized following the competition\u2019s official draw in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal of Iran have been drawn with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al Hilal, the 2017 runners-up and two-time winners, Al Duhail SC of Qatar and the UAE&#8217;s Al Ain in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis, who lost 2-0 to Kashima Antlers on aggregate in this year\u2019s final, will begin their campaign in the West Zone\u2019s Group D where they have Qatar&#8217;s Al Saad SC, Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli Saudi FC and the Play-off 1 (UAE\/UZB\/IRQ) winners for company.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al Hilal, the 2017 runners-up and two-time winners, will face Al Duhail SC of Qatar, UAE&#8217;s Al Ain and Iran&#8217;s Esteghlal FC in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>In the East Zone, two-time winner Jeonbuk was drawn in Group G and is set to face Japan&#8217;s second-placed club, China PR&#8217;s runner-up and 2018 Thai League 1 champion Buriram United.<\/p>\n<p>Guangzhou Evergrande FC of China PR, champion in 2013 and 2015, will face the second qualifier from Korea Republic, Australia&#8217;s Melbourne Victory and winner of Play-off 3 (JPN, THA, PHI, MYA) in Group F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran\u2019s Esteghlal and Persepolis learned their fates at the new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,92,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1981,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34253","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=34253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34255,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34253\/revisions\/34255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}