{"id":36342,"date":"2019-05-09T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36342"},"modified":"2019-05-09T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:32:47","slug":"afc-u-19-championship-rising-stars-set-for-2020-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/09\/afc-u-19-championship-rising-stars-set-for-2020-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC U-19 Championship: Rising stars set for 2020 Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The draw for the AFC U-19 Championship 2020 Qualifiers concluded at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday with the 46 teams discovering their opponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teams were divided into two zones of WEST (West + South + Central) with 25 teams and EAST (East +ASEAN) with 21 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group A will see five-time champions Iraq face Pakistan, Kuwait, Palestine and Oman, while 2014 winners and 2018 semi-finalists Qatar have Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan and Yemen for company in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarter-finalists in 2018, Turkmenistan will make their presence felt in Group C alongside Maldives, Lebanon and 1994 champions Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four-time champions Islamic Republic of Iran missed the last edition in Indonesia and will be hoping to make amends in Group D when they host Nepal, Kyrygz Republic and United Arab Emirates, who were the champions in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group E pits 2016 quarter-finalists Bahrain against Bhutan, Bangladesh and Jordan, while defending champions Saudi Arabia will entertain Afghanistan, India and Uzbekistan in Group F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top spot in the respective groups will earn direct qualification, while the four best second-placed teams will also advance to the 2020 Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should the yet to be determined host for the Finals finish either top of their group or among the best four second-placed teams, the next (5th) second-placed team in the ranking among all groups will qualify instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Qualifiers will be played on November 2-10, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The draw for the AFC U-19 Championship 2020 Qualifiers concluded at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,140,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-iran-u19","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":608,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342","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=36342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36344,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342\/revisions\/36344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}