{"id":54249,"date":"2025-12-07T07:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54249"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:56:52","slug":"2026-fifa-wc-iran-to-play-group-stage-matches-in-l-a-and-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/12\/07\/2026-fifa-wc-iran-to-play-group-stage-matches-in-l-a-and-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA WC: Iran to play group stage matches in L.A. and Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; WASHINGTON D.C., <strong>Iran\u2019s national football team will play its group stage matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Los Angeles and Seattle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli will face Belgium, Egypt, and New Zealand in Group G.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s first match is against New Zealand on June 15 at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s side will also play Belgium on June 21 at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and Egypt on June 26 at the Lumen Field in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 World Cup will be Iran&#8217;s 7th appearance in the sport&#8217;s biggest tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; WASHINGTON D.C., Iran\u2019s national football team will play its group stage matches of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1831,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54249","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=54249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54251,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54249\/revisions\/54251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}