{"id":6655,"date":"2025-05-29T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:00:29","slug":"pakistan-to-face-iraq-cambodia-oman-in-afc-u23-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/2025\/05\/29\/pakistan-to-face-iraq-cambodia-oman-in-afc-u23-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to face Iraq, Cambodia, Oman in AFC U23 Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"The AFC U23 Asian Cup Qualifiers are set to commence from September with Pakistan placed in Group G alongside Iraq, Cambodia, and Oman. Hosted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the group-stage fixtures will unfold between 3 and 9 September 2025.<br \/><br \/>Pakistan&#8217;s campaign begins on 3 September against Iraqi side, followed by a second group match against hosts Cambodia on 6 September. The team will wrap up its group fixtures against Oman on 9 September. All matches will be played at a central venue in Phnom Penh, with kick-off times yet to be confirmed.<br \/><br \/>As per the tournament structure, each team in Group G will play three matches in a single round-robin format. The top team from each group, along with the best second-placed sides across all groups, will advance to the final round of the AFC U23 Asian Cup \u2013 a gateway to the 2026 AFC U23 Championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFC U23 Asian Cup Qualifiers are set to commence from September with Pakistan placed in Group G alongside Iraq, Cambodia, and Oman. Hosted in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the group-stage fixtures will unfold between 3 and 9 September 2025. Pakistan&#8217;s campaign begins on 3 September against Iraqi side, followed by a second group match against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-national","9":"category-example-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6658,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/6658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}