{"id":39475,"date":"2020-06-18T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39475"},"modified":"2020-06-18T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:40:17","slug":"iran-learns-afc-u16-championship-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/06\/18\/iran-learns-afc-u16-championship-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran learns AFC U16 Championship fate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran have been drawn with DPR Korea, Qatar and Bahrain at the AFC U16 Championship Bahrain 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-time winners and defending champions Japan are set to face Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and China PR in Group D following Thursday\u2019s official draw at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixteen teams will be vying for the title while the top four teams will qualify for the FIFA U17 World Cup Peru 2021, the-afc.com wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tajikistan, the 2018 runners-up, were drawn in Group B alongside Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two-time champions Korea Republic, who finished third in 2018, were drawn in Group C with Australia, India and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DPR Korea, winners in 2010 and 2014, will be up against hosts Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran and Qatar in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AFC U16 Championship Bahrain 2020 will be played on November 24 to December 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran have been drawn with DPR Korea, Qatar and Bahrain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,90,84,92,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u16","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":630,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39475","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=39475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39477,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39475\/revisions\/39477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}