{"id":47936,"date":"2023-01-12T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=47936"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:47:09","slug":"iran-handed-easy-group-at-paris-2024-womens-asian-qualifiers-round-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/01\/12\/iran-handed-easy-group-at-paris-2024-womens-asian-qualifiers-round-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran handed easy group at Paris 2024 Women&#8217;s Asian Qualifiers Round 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The path has been set for the 26 teams competing in the Women\u2019s Olympic Football Tournament 2024 Asian Qualifiers Round 1, and Iran has been handed an easy draw.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Round 1 of the Asian Qualifiers will be divided into five groups of four and two groups of three, with teams competing in a one-round league format in a centralized venue from April 3 to 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hosts for the groups will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draw saw Uzbekistan, Jordan, Timor-Leste, and Bhutan drawn in Group A while Myanmar, Iran, Bangladesh, and Maldives will battle in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group C has Vietnam, Nepal, Palestine, and Afghanistan with Thailand, Mongolia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka in Group D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines, Hong Kong, Tajikistan, and Pakistan are the sides in Group E with Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and Lebanon set to vie for the sole automatic spot into the next round in Group F. Group G will see India, Kyrgyz Republic, and Turkmenistan facing off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners of each group will advance to Round 2 where they will be joined by the five highest-seeded teams &#8211; DPR Korea, Japan, Australia, China PR, and Korean Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia finished fourth in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics while Japan<em>\u00a0<\/em>was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Sweden. China\u2019s campaign ended on the group stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four teams from Round 2 &#8211; the three group winners and the best-ranked runners-up &#8211; will then face off in Round 3 where they will play two pairs of home and away matches with the eventual winners qualifying for the Paris 2024 Women\u2019s Olympic Football Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-67-700x453.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47938\" width=\"795\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-67-700x453.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-67-350x227.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-67-150x97.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-67-768x497.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Capture-67.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The path has been set for the 26 teams competing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":47937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,156,86,155,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-olympics","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-womens","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":956,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47936","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=47936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47939,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47936\/revisions\/47939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}