{"id":54226,"date":"2025-12-05T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54226"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T20:41:18","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-draw-iran-to-meet-belgium-egypt-and-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/12\/05\/2026-fifa-world-cup-draw-iran-to-meet-belgium-egypt-and-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup Draw: Iran to meet Belgium, Egypt and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; WASHINGTON D.C., <strong>Iran national football team discovered their opponents at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The draw for the 2026 World Cup took place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are drawn in Group G along with Belgium, Egypt, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Nations are listed in order of their position in the group, which determines the order of opponents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb905750-d1b2-11f0-a892-01d657345866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"518\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb905750-d1b2-11f0-a892-01d657345866.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb905750-d1b2-11f0-a892-01d657345866-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb905750-d1b2-11f0-a892-01d657345866-700x393.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb905750-d1b2-11f0-a892-01d657345866-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fb905750-d1b2-11f0-a892-01d657345866-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20251205_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"883\" height=\"462\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20251205_2.png 883w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20251205_2-350x183.png 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20251205_2-700x366.png 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20251205_2-150x78.png 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20251205_2-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; WASHINGTON D.C., Iran national football team discovered their opponents at the 2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54226","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":2042,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54226","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=54226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54229,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54226\/revisions\/54229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}