{"id":44630,"date":"2022-01-06T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44630"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T02:48:34","slug":"afc-futsal-asian-cup-kuwait-2022-qualifiers-iran-learns-group-stage-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/afc-futsal-asian-cup-kuwait-2022-qualifiers-iran-learns-group-stage-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Futsal Asian Cup Kuwait 2022 Qualifiers: Iran learns group stage fate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Asia\u2019s futsal stars discovered their challengers following the AFC Futsal Asian Cup Kuwait 2022 Qualifiers virtual draw ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With host nation Kuwait already assured of a place in the tournament, the 30 participating Member Associations (MAs) were divided into the East and West Zones while the Central and South Zones were combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the combined Central and South Zones, 12-time champions the Islamic Republic of Iran were drawn in Group A alongside Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan, and Maldives. Four-time runners-up Uzbekistan will face Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Nepal in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the East Zone, three-time champions Japan will have China PR and Mongolia for company in Group A, while Chinese Taipei, Korea Republic, and Hong Kong are in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matches will be played between April 1-15, 2022 with UAE hosting the West Zone, the-afc.com reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the West Zone, Iraq &#8211; who finished fourth in 2018 &#8211; will have Bahrain and United Arab Emirates for company in Group B, while Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and newcomers Oman were drawn in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ASEAN Zone was not drawn as the AFF Futsal Championship will serve as the qualifying competition for the AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six group winners &#8211; two each from East, West, and the combined Central and South Zones &#8211; will advance to the Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will be joined by the respective group runners-up from the Central and South Zones. The third team from the East Zone will be decided through a playoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The respective runners-up from the West Zone will also qualify with the fifth spot to be decided via a playoff between the third-placed teams from the two groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central &amp; South Zone Qualifiers will be played in Kyrgyz Republic while the UAE will host the West Zone Qualifiers. The host for the East Zone will be announced in due course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Asia\u2019s futsal stars discovered their challengers following the AFC Futsal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,84,88,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1650,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44630","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=44630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44632,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44630\/revisions\/44632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}