{"id":55485,"date":"2026-10-16T20:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55485"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:36:57","slug":"jafari-and-beiranvand-nominated-for-afc-awards-bangkok-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/10\/16\/jafari-and-beiranvand-nominated-for-afc-awards-bangkok-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Jafari and Beiranvand nominated for AFC Awards Bangkok 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Marzieh Jafari and Alireza Beiranvand from Iran have been nominated for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Awards Bangkok 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A glittering list of nominees was revealed by the AFC for the ceremony, which is slated to take place on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The 30th edition of the star-studded ceremony will be staged in Thailand for a second time since its capital city first played host in 2017, with the intricate Aksra Theatre King Power to serve as the venue once again.<\/p>\n<p>Jafari and Park Youn-jeong each vie for a second win in the AFC Coach of the Year (Women) prize with Ma Xiaoxu. Jafari helped Bam Khatoon qualify for the Group Stage of the AFC Women\u2019s Champions League 2026\/27.<\/p>\n<p>She also had impressive performance with Iran\u2019s women\u2019s national football team.<\/p>\n<p>Beiranvand, Feras Al Brikan and Salem Al Dawsari are in contention for the AFC Player of the Year trophy.<\/p>\n<p>A stellar showing at the FIFA World Cup 2026 underlined Alireza Beiranvand\u2019s world-class abilities as Iran narrowly missed out on the Round of 32 on goal difference. His nation\u2019s most-capped custodian, he also enjoyed a solid club campaign by helping Tractor FC to the AFC Champions League Elite 2025\/26 Round of 16. This is the 34-year-old\u2019s second nomination, after his first in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Hossein Tayebi (Gohar Zamin [IRN] and IRN) and Saeid Ahmad Abbasi (Giti Pasand [IRN] and IRN) vie for the AFC Futsal Player of the Year with Muhammad Osamanmusa (Jimbee Cartagena [ESP] and THA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Marzieh Jafari and Alireza Beiranvand from Iran have been nominated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":97,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485","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=55485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55488,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55485\/revisions\/55488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}