{"id":35867,"date":"2019-03-26T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T02:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35867"},"modified":"2019-03-26T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T02:57:22","slug":"iran-advances-to-2020-afc-u23-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/26\/iran-advances-to-2020-afc-u23-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran advances to 2020 AFC U23 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran and Iraq football teams ended the 2020 AFC U23 Championship qualification with a goalless draw on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq advanced to the 2020 AFC U23 Championship as Group C winners and Iran booked a place at the competition as one of four best runners-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 11 group winners and four best runners-up joined hosts Thailand in the 2020 finals in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 AFC U23 Championship will be the fourth edition of the AFC U23 Championship, the biennial international age-restricted football championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men&#8217;s under-23 national teams of Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament will be held from Jan. 8 to 26, 2020 in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This AFC U23 Championship will act as the AFC qualifiers for the Olympic football tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics men&#8217;s football tournament in Japan as the AFC representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran and Iraq football teams ended the 2020 AFC U23 Championship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,156,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-olympics","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1018,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35867","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=35867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35869,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35867\/revisions\/35869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}