{"id":48308,"date":"2023-02-24T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48308"},"modified":"2023-02-24T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:51:02","slug":"2023-afc-u-20-asian-cup-iran-to-face-qatar-in-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/02\/24\/2023-afc-u-20-asian-cup-iran-to-face-qatar-in-opening-match\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 AFC U-20 Asian Cup: Iran to face Qatar in opening match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tasnim &#8211; FERGANA, <strong>Iran will play Qatar in the opening match of the 2023 AFC U-20 Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samad Marfavi\u2019s boys are scheduled to meet the Qatari side on March 1st at the Istiqlol Stadium in Fergana, Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran will also play Australia and Vietnam on March 4th and 7th, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uzbekistan is set to host the AFC U-20 Asian Cup, kicking off March 1st, which will qualify four AFC nations for the U-20 World Cup 2023 to be hosted in May\/June in Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U-20 tournament is a revisioning of the U-19 tournament that was last won in 2018 by Saudi Arabia who beat South Korea 2-1 in Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2020 edition was scheduled to take place in Uzbekistan but was postponed twice due to the Covid pandemic and then adjusted to a U-20 format to qualify teams for the Indonesian-hosted U-20 World Cup finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; FERGANA, Iran will play Qatar in the opening match of the 2023 AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,169,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48308","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-iran-u20","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1209,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308","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=48308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48310,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308\/revisions\/48310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}