{"id":788007,"date":"2026-07-08T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788007\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:51:09","slug":"basketball-fc-porto-learn-their-champions-league-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788007\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: FC Porto learn their Champions League opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/porto-13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Porto<\/a> already know the opponents they will face in the Champions League. The Dragons have been drawn in Group H alongside Bnei Penlink Herzliya (Israel), Joventut (Spain), and Bonn (Germany).<\/p>\n<p>After ending a ten-year drought and being crowned national champions, Fernando S\u00e1\u2019s side will compete in the group stage of the tournament for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n<p>The Champions League group stage begins on October 6 and features eight groups of four teams. The group winners advance to the second group stage, while the runners-up and third-placed teams will contest the \u201cplay-in\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Porto already know the opponents they will face in the Champions League. The Dragons have been drawn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-788007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}