{"id":8462,"date":"2017-11-04T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T07:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T02:15:25","slug":"al-ain-win-licensing-appeal-compete-2018-afc-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/04\/al-ain-win-licensing-appeal-compete-2018-afc-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Ain win licensing appeal to compete in 2018 AFC Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-title side-padding\">Al Ain win licensing appeal\u00a0by the UAE Pro League Committee (PLC)\u00a0to compete in next year&#8217;s AFC Champions League,\u00a0it was announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 2003 Asian champions\u00a0had initially been denied a license since they did not meet certain criteria set by the PLC and based upon Asian Football Confederation guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the PLC First Instance Body rejected licence applications from Al Ain, Shabab Al Ahli Dubai, Bani Yas, Dibba, Kalba and Hatta.<\/p>\n<p>Al Ain were the most affected by the decision because it meant they would have been ruled out of next year\u2019s AFC Champions League, missing the tournament for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ain win licensing appeal\u00a0by the UAE Pro League Committee (PLC)\u00a0to compete in next year&#8217;s AFC Champions League,\u00a0it was announced on Tuesday. The 2003 Asian champions\u00a0had initially been denied a license since they did not meet certain criteria set by the PLC and based upon Asian Football Confederation guidelines. Earlier this month, the PLC First Instance Body rejected licence applications from Al Ain, Shabab Al Ahli Dubai, Bani Yas, Dibba, Kalba and Hatta. Al Ain were the most affected by the decision because it meant they would have been ruled out of next year\u2019s AFC Champions League, missing the tournament for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,43],"tags":[1035,188],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-champions-league","category-uae","tag-2018-afc-champions-league","tag-al-ain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","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=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}