Append date to custom post type url slug

Question

I have a sports website that will have very similar slugs:

http://example.com/match/teamA-vs-teamB

Sooner than later, teams A and B will play again, and the slugs will repeat themselves:

http://example.com/match/teamA-vs-teamB-1

The solution I found was to prepend a date to the match, making it look like this:

http://example.com/match/2017-01-31/teamA-vs-teamB

This will guarantee I have unique slugs and is also user friendly.

I tried to change "rewrite" option on register_post_type without success, because whatever I add there will be the same for all "match" post types.

How can I append the scheduled post date to the slug?

How about creating a custom post type with a taxonomy? Where the CP is match and its tax. is teamA vs teamB — klewis, Commented Feb 1, 2017 at 3:16
There's a lot of related questions around this. I think this answer stackoverflow.com/a/23702560/450127 (or a modification of it) will do what you want. — Ian Dunn, Commented Jan 20, 2018 at 20:29

Lucas Bustamante · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-01 03:31:32Z

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Works pretty well:

answered Feb 1, 2017 at 3:31

Lucas Bustamante

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