{"id":34646,"date":"2018-12-25T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34646"},"modified":"2018-12-25T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T18:21:46","slug":"acl-zob-ahan-selects-karbala-as-neutral-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/25\/acl-zob-ahan-selects-karbala-as-neutral-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: Zob Ahan selects Karbala as neutral venue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Zob Ahan has chosen Iraqi city of Karbala as the neutral venue to host the Saudi Arabian team in the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zob Ahan will face the winner of Al-Wehdat of Jordan and Kuwait\u2019s Al-Kuwait in the Preliminary round 2 and the winner of the match will meet Al-Gharafa of Qatar in Play-off round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Nassr of Saudi Arabia will also play the winner of AGMK from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan\u2019s Istiklol in Play-off round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Nassr and Zob Ahan will be drawn in Group A if they defeat their opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Asian Football Confederation, clubs from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran should play on a home and away basis as per the AFC regulations, but Saudi Arabia violated the order as their teams will not come to Iran to play the country\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 AFC Champions League is scheduled to be played from 5 February to 24 November 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISFAHAN, Zob Ahan has chosen Iraqi city of Karbala as the neutral venue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34646","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":614,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34646","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=34646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34648,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34646\/revisions\/34648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}