{"id":43891,"date":"2021-10-18T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43891"},"modified":"2021-10-18T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:31:56","slug":"2021-22-ipl-season-to-kick-off-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/18\/2021-22-ipl-season-to-kick-off-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"2021\/22 IPL season to kick off on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The 21st edition of the Iran Professional League (IPL) will kick off on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021\/22 IPL season will be held with the participation of 16 teams.<\/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\n\n\n<p>Matchweek 1 Fixture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Paykan \u2013 Naft Masjed Soleyman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Padideh Mashhad \u2013 Aluminum Arak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Nassaji Mazandaran \u2013 Fajr Sepasi Shiraz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Sepahan Isfahan\u2013 Mes Rafsanjan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Sanat Naft Abadan \u2013 Zob Ahan Isfahan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Gol Gohar Sirjan \u2013 Tractor Tabriz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Esteghlal \u2013 Havadar<br \/><br \/><strong>Friday:<\/strong><br \/>*Foolad Khuzestan \u2013 Persepolis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The 21st edition of the Iran Professional League (IPL) will kick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":899,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43891","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=43891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43893,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43891\/revisions\/43893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}