{"id":53407,"date":"2025-05-24T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53407"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:03:54","slug":"wcq-2026-tehran-to-host-iran-n-korea-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/05\/24\/wcq-2026-tehran-to-host-iran-n-korea-match\/","title":{"rendered":"WCQ 2026: Tehran to host Iran, N. Korea match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The match between Iran and North Korea football teams in the third round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) will be held in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are scheduled to host North Korea on June 10. Before that, Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s Iran will face Qatar at Lusail Stadium in Doha on June 5.<\/p>\n<p>The match was originally set to be held in Mashhad\u2019s Imam Reza Stadium, but the football federation confirmed that the venue has been changed to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran have already secured their place in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The match between Iran and North Korea football teams in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1644,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53407","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=53407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53409,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53407\/revisions\/53409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}