{"id":415266,"date":"2026-08-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=415266"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:31:55","slug":"palestinian-club-football-to-resume-after-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/palestinian-club-football-to-resume-after-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian club football to resume after 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ramallah \u2013 The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) announced on Monday (10) that it would resume activity in September after a nearly three-year pause due to the Gaza war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The association has named the first tournament back the \u201cThousand Martyrs\u2019 Cup\u201d to honor the 1,014 Palestinian athletes killed during the war according to the association\u2019s data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe announce the resumption of sports activities and the football association\u2019s league beginning September 4,\u201d association president Jibril Rajoub said at a Ramallah press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 200 clubs will compete in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The war, started in October 2023, \u201ccreated difficult conditions for all Palestinians that led to the suspension of our competitions and activities,\u201d said Rajoub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut we have not lost our Palestinian national will, nor have we lost our belief that sport will remain a symbol of hope and life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the press conference, he called on FIFA and other federations to stand by Palestinian sports and to protect the rights of players, clubs and children to enjoy sports in \u201cfreedom and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official also announced that the Palestinian national team will play a friendly against China in September as part of its preparations for the AFC Asian Cup, which kicks off in Saudi Arabia in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reproduction of this content is prohibited.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-415248\">\u00a9Hassan Jedi \/Anadolu\/Anadolu via AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian Football Association announced the return of the competition, featuring 226 clubs. The Palestinian national team will also begin preparations for the AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":415248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[3260,31497,41654,29300,5910],"class_list":{"0":"post-415266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-gaza-en-2","10":"tag-jibril-rajoub-en","11":"tag-palestina-en-2","12":"tag-sports"},"wps_subtitle":"The Palestinian Football Association announced the return of the competition, featuring 226 clubs. The Palestinian national team will also begin preparations for the AFC Asian Cup.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415268,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415266\/revisions\/415268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}