{"id":43348,"date":"2021-08-26T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43348"},"modified":"2021-08-26T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:56:29","slug":"2021-22-ipl-season-to-kick-off-on-oct-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/08\/26\/2021-22-ipl-season-to-kick-off-on-oct-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"2021\/22 IPL season to kick off on Oct. 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s Football League Organization announced that the 2021\/22 Iran Professional League (IPL) season will kick off on Oct. 19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head of The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Shahabeddin Azizi Khadem had previously said the new season will start between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis are defending champions and look to win the IPL title for the sixth in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fajr Sepasi and Havadar will take part in the upcoming season as the newcomers after secured promotion to the league last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Machine Sazi and Saipa were also relegated from the IPL to the First Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran Professional League is the highest division of professional football in the west Asian country. It is the top-level football league in Iran since its foundation in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2013, the league comprises 16 teams. The winners of IPL and Hazfi Cup automatically qualify for the AFC Champions League group stages. The runners-up and the third-place teams should participate at the AFC Champions League Play-off round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis are the most successful club with seven titles in IPL and 14 in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran\u2019s Football League Organization announced that the 2021\/22 Iran Professional League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":457,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43348","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=43348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43349,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43348\/revisions\/43349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}