{"id":53685,"date":"2025-07-31T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53685"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:02:12","slug":"india-replaces-malaysia-at-cafa-nations-cup-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/india-replaces-malaysia-at-cafa-nations-cup-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"India replaces Malaysia at CAFA Nations Cup 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aljazeera.com &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>India will participate in the Central Asian Football Association\u2019s (CAFA) Nations Cup next month, the regional football federation has confirmed, alongside FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers Iran and Uzbekistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second edition of the tournament \u2013 Iran won the inaugural event in 2023 \u2013 will run from August 29 to September 8.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are the host countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith one month to go, preparations are in full swing to deliver a tournament aimed at developing football and strengthening international collaboration across the region,\u201d CAFA said.<\/p>\n<p>India replaces Malaysia, who dropped out, to join the six members of CAFA \u2013 Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan \u2013 will compete.Oman was also invited and will play in the tournament for the second time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20250731_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"446\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20250731_1.png 495w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20250731_1-350x315.png 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20250731_1-111x100.png 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aljazeera.com &#8211; TASHKENT, India will participate in the Central Asian Football Association\u2019s (CAFA) Nations Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,213,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-cafa","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1890,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685","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=53685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53688,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53685\/revisions\/53688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}