{"id":36921,"date":"2019-07-04T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36921"},"modified":"2019-07-04T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T01:51:48","slug":"ipl-clubs-forced-to-meet-adequate-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/07\/04\/ipl-clubs-forced-to-meet-adequate-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL clubs forced to meet adequate standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football federation considers shutting down the Iran Professional League due to lack of adequate standards.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federation has threatened the clubs it will shot down the IPL if they fail to meet standards.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaotic scenes broke out during the matches between Iranian football teams last season. The fans broke the seats in the stadiums and clashed with the security forces many times.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Football Federation of Iran Disciplinary Committee made penalties for some clubs and their violent fans in previous similar cases but the incidents were repeated at pitches everywhere in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many incidents have been out of the football federation control and clubs must take responsibility and play an active role in stamping out violence among their supporters.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe league competition should be equipped with electronic ticketing and seat numbering systems in the new season. There will be a zero-tolerance policy in relation to any threats against the competition,\u201d Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj was quoted as saying.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to security reasons, the organizers should not allow the fans to attend a match more than the capacity of the stadiums and all pitches should be equipped with CCTV cameras, he said.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe clubs should also be awarded TV broadcast rights in the new season,\u201d Taj added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video Assistant referee (VAR) should be available in all stadiums, with many leagues around the world opting to put the method into practice following a successful run at the 2018 World Cup.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA wants to display transparency to the teams and supporters.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Masoud Soltanifar, has recently said that football hooligans will face sever action if they try to make trouble at the stadiums.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe matches should not be marred by misbehavior of some fans who violate the rules. Fortunately, the clubs have helpful cultural plans for the new season. Sport is a factor of making tens of millions of people happy,\u201d Soltanifar said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran Professional League (IPL) 2019-20 season will kick off on July 30.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football federation considers shutting down the Iran Professional League due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36921","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","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":969,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921","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=36921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36922,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921\/revisions\/36922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}