{"id":36696,"date":"2025-12-21T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/sepahan-knocked-out-of-2025-26-irans-hazfi-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:40:02","slug":"sepahan-knocked-out-of-2025-26-irans-hazfi-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/sepahan-knocked-out-of-2025-26-irans-hazfi-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan knocked out of 2025\/26 Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4002165.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Sepahan football team failed to secure a place in the 2025\/26 Iran Hazfi Cup quarterfinals after suffering a 3-1 defeat to Kheybar at the Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Mohsen Sefid Choghaei opened the scoring for the visiting team just five minutes into the match, but Mohammad Askari equalized in the 15th minute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Ali Khanzadi put Kheybar back in front in the 47th minute. Sepahan midfielder Omid Nourafkan had a chance to level the score with a penalty in the 65th minute but missed, as his spot kick was saved. Amirhossein Farsi sealed the result with a third goal for Kheybar in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Elsewhere, Paykan defeated Naft &amp; Gaz Gachsaran 1-0 thanks to a late goal from Mehdi Najafi.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/521937\/Sepahan-knocked-out-of-2025-26-Iran-s-Hazfi-Cup\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Sepahan football team failed to secure a place in the 2025\/26 Iran Hazfi Cup quarterfinals after suffering a 3-1 defeat to Kheybar at the Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium on Sunday. Mohsen Sefid Choghaei opened the scoring for the visiting team just five minutes into the match, but Mohammad Askari equalized in the 15th minute. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-36696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}