{"id":46205,"date":"2022-07-06T19:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=46205"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:21:30","slug":"%ef%bf%bc-new-domestic-league-season-to-begin-in-august-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/07\/06\/%ef%bf%bc-new-domestic-league-season-to-begin-in-august-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"New domestic league season to begin in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The 2022\/23 Iran Professional League will start on Aug. 12th, according to the Iran Football League Organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal, who will be headed by Portuguese coach Ricardo Sa Pinto in the new season, are defending champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malavan Bandar Anzali and Mes Kerman won promotion and replaced Fajr Sepasi and Shahr Khodro.<\/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, The 2022\/23 Iran Professional League will start on Aug. 12th, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46205","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":876,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46205","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=46205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46207,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46205\/revisions\/46207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}