Iranian Football Clubs Withdraw from AFC Champions League

Maryam Khy
IFP News ( Iran Front Page )
1 min readJan 18, 2020

Four Iranian football clubs have officially withdrawn from the AFC Champions League in protest at AFC’s “politically-motivated” decision to ban them from hosting their rivals in Iran.

The decision was taken after a meeting between the Iranian Sports Ministry and the presidents of the four football clubs — Persepolis, Esteqlal, Sepahan, and Shahr-Khodro — at the Iranian Football Federation.

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