{"id":55324,"date":"2026-09-11T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55324"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:30:18","slug":"iran-learns-fate-at-2026-afc-beach-soccer-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/09\/11\/iran-learns-fate-at-2026-afc-beach-soccer-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran learns fate at 2026 AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The pathway to AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup Thailand 2026 glory was revealed following the Draw at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 12 teams, led by defending champions Iran, were divided into three groups.<\/p>\n<p>In Group A, hosts Thailand will have to battle it out with three-time winners Japan, 2006 champions Bahrain and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, seeking a record-extending fifth title, were drawn in Group B where they will face Lebanon, Vietnam and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Group C will see 2015 champions Oman locking horns with two-time champions the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>The winners and runners-up of each group, as well as the two best third-placed teams, will advance to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 12th edition of the competition is set to take place in the city of Phang Nga between Nov. 18 to 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Draw result<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A: Thailand (H), Japan, Bahrain, Iraq<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Iran, Lebanon, Vietnam, Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The pathway to AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup Thailand 2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,141,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-cup","category-beach-soccer","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":177,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55324","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=55324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55326,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55324\/revisions\/55326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}