{"id":53003,"date":"2025-03-17T15:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53003"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T22:27:34","slug":"afc-iran-and-japan-at-top-of-afc-beach-soccer-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/03\/17\/afc-iran-and-japan-at-top-of-afc-beach-soccer-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Iran and Japan at top of AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, <strong>The AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup Thailand 2025 is just around the corner, with 16 teams set to vie for the coveted title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japan and Iran have each emerged champions three times. Japan clinched the title in 2009, 2011 and 2019, while Iran emerged victorious in 2013, 2017 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates has won the title twice, achieving back-to-back successes in 2007 and 2008. Japan is the only other team to emerge victorious in successive editions.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain won the inaugural edition in 2006 while Oman is the third West Asian nation to have lifted the trophy, emerging champion in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>With the 2021 edition cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic, Asia\u2019s finest gathered in Pattaya in 2023 with Iran simply unstoppable, cruising to a 6-0 win over Japan to claim its third title.<\/p>\n<p>Iran holds the record for the most goals scored in a single edition, netting an astonishing 50 during its run to their 2017 title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BANGKOK, The AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup Thailand 2025 is just around the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,141,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-cup","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":964,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53003","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=53003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53005,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53003\/revisions\/53005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}