{"id":40520,"date":"2020-09-28T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40520"},"modified":"2020-09-28T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:25:44","slug":"acl-west-zone-qf-persepolis-to-meet-pakhtakor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/28\/acl-west-zone-qf-persepolis-to-meet-pakhtakor\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL: West zone QF: Persepolis to meet Pakhtakor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Iran&#8217;s Persepolis football club will meet Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan in the 2020 AFC Champions League (West) quarter-finals in the west region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis, runners-up in 2018, will play Pakhtakor on Wednesday at the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s semi-final also will be played at the same venue. The two quarter-finals and semi-final will be one-legged affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis sealed their quarter-final berth in dramatic fashion on Sunday, with Issa Alekasir scoring an 88th minute winner for the Iran Pro League champions against Qatar&#8217;s Al Sadd SC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Nassr and Al Ahli will play in an all-Saudi Arabia clash in another quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of the four West Zone quarter-finalists have won the AFC Champions League before, with Al Ahli Saudi and Persepolis finishing runners-up in 2012 and 2018 respectively. Al Ahli Saudi were also runners-up in the 1985-86 season of the Asian Club Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakhtakor were semi-finalists in 2003 and 2004 while Al Nassr, runners-up in the 1995 Asian Club Championship, will be appearing in their second successive AFC Champions League quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Quarter-finals<\/strong><br \/><strong>Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Nassr (KSA) vs Al Ahli Saudi FC (KSA)<br \/>Wednesday 16:40 (UTC +3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis FC (IRN) vs Pakhtakor (UZB)<br \/>Wednesday 20:45 (UTC +3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Iran&#8217;s Persepolis football club will meet Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-persepolis"],"views":508,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520","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=40520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40522,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520\/revisions\/40522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}