{"id":7580,"date":"2017-10-04T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2017-10-05T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T07:42:48","slug":"thai-league-1-cut-16-teams-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/10\/04\/thai-league-1-cut-16-teams-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai League T1 cut down to 16 teams in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 209 Thai League 1 will be cut down from 18 to 16 teams, the <a href=\"http:\/\/fathailand.org\/news\/1295\">Football Association of Thailand (FAT) announced in a meeting <\/a>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This means that five teams\u00a0will be relegated to the second tier at the conclusion of next year&#8217;s league battles.<\/p>\n<p>The FAT expects that the downsizing scale of the top-flight league will allow players in the national teams fully recover for the important international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, all Thai League 1 sides are required to play 34 matches in one season. On the other hand, the players have to\u00a0compete in\u00a0other\u00a0major knock-out tournaments, including the FA Cup and\u00a0the League Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 209 Thai League 1 will be cut down from 18 to 16 teams, the Football Association of Thailand (FAT) announced in a meeting on Tuesday. This means that five teams\u00a0will be relegated to the second tier at the conclusion of next year&#8217;s league battles. The FAT expects that the downsizing scale of the top-flight league will allow players in the national teams fully recover for the important international competitions. At the moment, all Thai League 1 sides are required to play 34 matches in one season. On the other hand, the players have to\u00a0compete in\u00a0other\u00a0major knock-out tournaments, including the FA Cup and\u00a0the League Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[95,200,68],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-slider","tag-thai-league","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}