{"id":48630,"date":"2023-03-31T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48630"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:20:25","slug":"afc-asian-cup-2023-pots-announced-iran-in-pot-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/03\/31\/afc-asian-cup-2023-pots-announced-iran-in-pot-1\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Asian Cup 2023 pots announced, Iran in Pot 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The Asian Football Confederation confirmed the pots for the AFC Asian Cup 2023, in which Iran is in Pot 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The draw is scheduled to take place on May 11, 2023 at the Katara Opera House in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>It has been confirmed that pots were assigned based on FIFA rankings and not seeding in relation to Asian Cup qualification performance.<\/p>\n<p>Pot 1 comprises the titleholder of the Asian Cup, Qatar, along with Japan, Iran, South Korea, Australia, and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Pot 2 includes Iraq, the UAE, Oman, Uzbekistan, China, and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>Pot 3 contains Bahrain, Syria, Palestine, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>India is placed in Pot 4 in the draw along with Tajikistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The teams who qualify for the second qualification round are assigned Pot 1 and Pot 2, while the exact pot is decided on the FIFA Ranking of the team.<\/p>\n<p>The draw will see one team from each pot drawn into a group. There will be a total of six groups of four.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed tournament dates are set between January 12 to February 10, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The Asian Football Confederation confirmed the pots for the AFC Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1123,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48630","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=48630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48632,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48630\/revisions\/48632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}