{"id":48899,"date":"2023-05-11T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48899"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:46:35","slug":"2023-afc-asian-cup-iran-drawn-into-group-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/05\/11\/2023-afc-asian-cup-iran-drawn-into-group-c\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 AFC Asian Cup: Iran drawn into Group C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA,<strong>Iran national football team are handed an easy draw at the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three-time winner Team Melli are drawn along the UAE, Hong Kong and Palestine in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>The continental showpiece, scheduled for January 12 to February 10, 2024 promises to be a thrilling affair with seven former winners among the 24 teams &#8211; seeded in accordance with the latest FIFA World Ranking &#8211; divided into six groups.<\/p>\n<p>The top two sides from each group and the four best third-placed teams will advance to the Round of 16 at Qatar 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Group A: Qatar, China PR, Tajikistan, Lebanon<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Australia, Uzbekistan, Syria, India<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Iran, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong China, Palestine<\/p>\n<p>Group D: Japan, Indonesia, Iraq, Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Group E: Korea Republic, Malaysia, Jordan, Bahrain<\/p>\n<p>Group F: Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Kyrgyz Republic, Oman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA,Iran national football team are handed an easy draw at the AFC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48899","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":1958,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48899","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=48899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48901,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48899\/revisions\/48901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}