{"id":41506,"date":"2021-01-22T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T23:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41506"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T23:25:50","slug":"foolad-to-meet-al-ain-at-2021-acl-play-off-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/01\/22\/foolad-to-meet-al-ain-at-2021-acl-play-off-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad to meet Al Ain at 2021 ACL play-off round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Foolad football team will meet Emirati club Al Ain in play-off round of the 2021 AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will have three direct slots in the group stage of the 2021 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis will represent Iran in the competition as league champions, while Tractor will take part in the upcoming event as Hazfi Cup winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal, the league runners-up, will also have a direct slot in the group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foolad, who finished third in the league last season, will start the campaign with a match against Al Ain in play-off round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs will be played from March 2021 to April 2021. A total of 19 teams will compete in the qualifying play-offs to decide the remaining eight of the 40 places in the group stage of the 2021 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Foolad football team will meet Emirati club Al Ain in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41506","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-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":496,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41506","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=41506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41508,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41506\/revisions\/41508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}