{"id":39402,"date":"2020-06-07T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39402"},"modified":"2020-06-07T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T16:53:15","slug":"iran-pro-league-return-delayed-by-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/06\/07\/iran-pro-league-return-delayed-by-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Pro League return delayed by a week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN<strong>, The long-awaited return of Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s top domestic football division, the Pro League, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, June 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Announced on Sunday, the new date represents a six-day delay from the June 18 return which had been announced previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement on the league\u2019s official website, league boss Haidar Baharvand contacted all participating clubs to advise them of the new development, which is aimed at giving players more preparation time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foolad Khuzestan\u2019s meeting with Esteghlal on June 24 will be the first league match in Iran since February 28, as the league came to a sudden halt due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With nine matches remaining for most clubs, reigning champions Persepolis hold a 10-point lead on their nearest challengers Sepahan and FC Tractor, while Esteghlal, who hold a game in hand, are a point further back in fourth place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, The long-awaited return of Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s top domestic football division,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":945,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39402","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=39402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39404,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39402\/revisions\/39404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}