{"id":358335,"date":"2026-03-26T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/358335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:12:08","slug":"asian-champions-league-elite-irans-tractor-fc-in-line-for-quarter-final-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/358335\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Champions League Elite: Iran\u2019s Tractor FC in line for quarter-final in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian club Tractor FC are set to travel to Saudi Arabia for a play-off against Shabab Al-Ahli of Dubai for a place in the Asian Champions League Elite quarter-finals against Buriram United of Thailand.<\/p>\n

The Asian Football Confederation held the draw on Wednesday to determine the quarter-final pairings, a day after announcing that the western zone play-offs that were postponed because of the war in the Middle East had been rescheduled for April 13-14 in Jeddah.<\/p>\n

The Saudi city is also slated to host the tournament quarter-finals, semi-finals and final from April 16 to 25, with organisers setting the dates and hoping for peace in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all want to play matches as soon as possible. So hopefully we\u2019re able to finish fixtures in April, as we have planned,\u201d AFC general secretary Windsor John said. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping that things will calm down very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The participating clubs have been \u201cquite supportive of the measures we\u2019ve put in place to ensure that we only play when things have calmed down\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"AFCAFC general secretary Windsor John hopes \u201cthings will calm down very soon\u201d. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Vissel Kobe \u2013 who finished second in the east zone \u2013 were drawn on Wednesday to play the winner of the play-off between four-time champion Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia and Al-Sadd of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian club Tractor FC are set to travel to Saudi Arabia for a play-off against Shabab Al-Ahli of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10389,173510,20873,173513,23521,173506,173512,120878,92077,173511,173507,173514,173508,173509,17558,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-358335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afc","tag-afc-challenge-league","tag-afc-champions-league-two","tag-afc-general-secretary-windsor-john","tag-al-nassr","tag-al-ahli-saudi","tag-al-duhail","tag-al-hilal","tag-al-ittihad","tag-al-sadd","tag-al-wahda","tag-asian-champions-league-elite","tag-asian-football-confederation","tag-buriram-united","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}