{"id":278660,"date":"2026-02-26T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=278660"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:30:27","slug":"khelo-india-tribal-games-football-arunachal-mens-and-womens-team-qualify-for-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/khelo-india-tribal-games-football-arunachal-mens-and-womens-team-qualify-for-final-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Khelo India Tribal Games Football: Arunachal men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s team qualify for final round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 25 Feb:<\/strong> Hosts Arunachal Pradesh qualified for the final round of the inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 in both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s categories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the final day of the group stage, the men&#8217;s team secured a crucial 2-1 victory over Nagaland, confirming their top position in the standings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The women&#8217;s team delivered a dominant performance by defeating Manipur 8-0, thereby finishing as group toppers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final round of the championships will be held in Chhattisgarh next month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another match, the men&#8217;s team from Assam defeated Sikkim 3-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 25 Feb: Hosts Arunachal Pradesh qualified for the final round of the inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games 2026 in both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s categories. On the final day of the group stage, the men&#8217;s team secured a crucial 2-1 victory over Nagaland, confirming their top position in the standings. The women&#8217;s team delivered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278683,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278660\/revisions\/278683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}