{"id":36347,"date":"2019-05-10T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36347"},"modified":"2019-05-10T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:01:09","slug":"2018-19-iran-professional-league-cup-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/10\/2018-19-iran-professional-league-cup-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"2018\u201319 Iran Professional League cup unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Football League Organization unveiled the cup and medals of the 18th edition of the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With two weeks to spare, three teams have chance to win IPL title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis sit top of the table with 57 points, three points ahead of Sepahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal also are a favorite to win the title while the team have a little chance, with four points adrift of the leaders. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis will host Machine Sazi in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium Saturday night, while Sepahan meet Padideh in Mashhad and Esteghlal face Sanat Naft in Abadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Sepahan and Esteghlal fail to win their away matches, Persepolis will lift the trophy for the third time in a row with a win over Machine Sazi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran Professional League is the highest division of professional football in Iran. The league was also known as the Persian Gulf Cup from 2006. It is the top-level football league in Iran since its foundation on Nov. 2, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Football League Organization unveiled the cup and medals of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":821,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36347","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=36347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36349,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36347\/revisions\/36349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}