{"id":55128,"date":"2026-07-14T07:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55128"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:58:30","slug":"iran-coach-ghalenoei-to-remain-in-charge-for-asian-cup-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/07\/14\/iran-coach-ghalenoei-to-remain-in-charge-for-asian-cup-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran coach Ghalenoei to remain in charge for Asian Cup challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Coach Amir Ghalenoei has extended his contract with the Iran national team until \u200bthe Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia in \u200cJanuary, the country&#8217;s football federation confirmed on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghalenoei, who led his nation to three consecutive draws during the World \u200bCup to narrowly miss out on a place \u200bin the knockout rounds, has been in \u2060charge of the team since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Ghalenoei will \u200bremain the head coach of the national team,&#8221; \u200bthe Tehran Times quoted Iran football federation president Mehdi Taj as saying. &#8220;We have already received his plans for the AFC \u200bAsian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The national team&#8217;s training camp for \u200bthe upcoming FIFA international window will start soon. There are \u200calso \u2060several developments planned for our national teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ghalenoei is in his second stint in charge of Iran having led the team to the quarter-finals of the \u200bAsian Cup \u200bin 2007 \u2060and the semi-finals in 2023. The country has won the continental title on \u200bthree occasions, the most recent coming \u200bin 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060next edition of the Asian Cup will kick off on January 7 with the final to \u2060be \u200bplayed in Riyadh on February 5. \u200bIran have been drawn in Group C alongside Syria, Kyrgyzstan \u200band China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; TEHRAN, Coach Amir Ghalenoei has extended his contract with the Iran national team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":99,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55128","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=55128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55130,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55128\/revisions\/55130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}