{"id":51524,"date":"2024-06-28T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T21:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51524"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T21:48:42","slug":"cafa-u20-championship-2024-iran-to-play-turkmenistan-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/06\/28\/cafa-u20-championship-2024-iran-to-play-turkmenistan-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"CAFA U20 Championship 2024: Iran to play Turkmenistan in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BISHKEK, <strong>Iran will kick off the 2024 CAFA U20 Championship with a match against Turkmenistan on July 7.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Persians will then meet Uzbekistan two days later in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Group A consists of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 CAFA U20 Championship is the upcoming 2nd edition of the Championship, the international youth football championship organized by Central Asian Football Association for the men&#8217;s under-20 national teams of Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgyzstan will host the tournament from July 5 to 12.<\/p>\n<p>A total of six teams will play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2004 eligible to participate. It will be the first CAFA tournament to implement video assistant referees (VAR).<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan are the defending champions being crowned champions of the inaugural edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BISHKEK, Iran will kick off the 2024 CAFA U20 Championship with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,84,169,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cafa","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u20","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":897,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524","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=51524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51526,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524\/revisions\/51526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}