{"id":39784,"date":"2020-07-24T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39784"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:53:13","slug":"ipl-2020-21-to-start-in-early-october-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/24\/ipl-2020-21-to-start-in-early-october-official\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2020-21 to start in early October: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Fariborz Mahmoudzadeh, head of the Transfer Committee of the Iran Football League Organization, said that the new season of Iran Professional League (IPL) will start in early October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no dates set for when the 2020-21 season will begin but Mahmoudzadeh has said it will most likely start in early October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are going to start the new season of IPL and Azadegan League (First Division) in early October. The first four weeks of the 2020-21 season will take place with the transfer window still open,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iran Professional League is the highest division of professional football in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\n\n\n<p>Each year, the top finishing team in the league become the Iranian football champions, and the lowest finishing teams are relegated to Azadegan League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis are the most decorated football team in the IPL with five titles out of 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Fariborz Mahmoudzadeh, head of the Transfer Committee of the Iran Football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39784","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-c20-other-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":390,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39784","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=39784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39786,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39784\/revisions\/39786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}