{"id":5611,"date":"2025-11-05T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:47:59","slug":"iran-chasing-unprecedented-14th-futsal-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/iran-chasing-unprecedented-14th-futsal-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran chasing unprecedented 14th futsal crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reigning 13-time record champions Iran will headline Group D, with Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia their challengers at the AFC Futsal Asian Cup to be held in Indonesia from 27<sup>th<\/sup> January to 7<sup>th<\/sup> February next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draw for the tournament was conducted earlier today held at the MNC Conference Hall with the 16 teams divided into four groups. The top two teams from each to advance to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosts Indonesia were drawn in Group A alongside Iraq, Kyrgyz Republic and Korea Republic and &#8211; with their fans behind them &#8211; will be hopeful of advancing to the knockout stage.<br><br>Thailand, runners-up in the previous edition, will have Vietnam, Kuwait and Lebanon for company in Group B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoping to deny four-time champions Japan from Group C progression will be Uzbekistan &#8211; who have finished second four times, Tajikistan and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Draw Result<\/strong><br>Group A: Indonesia, Iraq, Kyrgyz Republic, Korea Republic<br>Group B: Thailand, Vietnam, Kuwait, Lebanon<br>Group C: Japan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Australia<br>Group D: Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning 13-time record champions Iran will headline Group D, with Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia their challengers at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-futsal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal.jpg",800,557,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal-300x209.jpg",300,209,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal-768x535.jpg",640,446,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal.jpg",640,446,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal.jpg",800,557,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal.jpg",800,557,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal.jpg",800,557,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/international\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AFC-futsal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}