{"id":25156,"date":"2026-11-01T06:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/afghanistan-u15-football-win-azerbaijan-fifa-world-cup-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:59:32","slug":"afghanistan-u15-football-win-azerbaijan-fifa-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/afghanistan-u15-football-win-azerbaijan-fifa-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Under-15 Football Team Ranks 83rd Globally After Win Against Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Under-15 football team secured 83rd place in the world after defeating Azerbaijan in a crucial match held on Friday in Baku, the host city of the FIFA Under-15 World Cup. After a 3-3 draw in regular time, Afghanistan triumphed 3-2 in the penalty shootout. This victory placed Afghanistan 83rd among the 189 participating teams.<\/p>\n<p>During the tournament, Afghanistan achieved six wins against Sierra Leone, Djibouti, Sudan, Namibia, India, and Azerbaijan, but faced defeats in four matches against Turkey, Russia, Thailand, and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural FIFA Under-15 World Cup and football festival was held in 2026 with extensive participation from 189 countries. Spain emerged as the champion of this edition by winning 3-0 against the Czech Republic in the final match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Under-15 football team ranked 83rd globally after beating Azerbaijan in penalties at the FIFA Under-15 World Cup in Baku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}