{"id":11999,"date":"2011-03-08T05:44:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T13:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/08\/iran-seventh-seed-for-world-cup-2014\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T05:44:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T13:44:19","slug":"iran-seventh-seed-for-world-cup-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/08\/iran-seventh-seed-for-world-cup-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran seventh seed for World Cup 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"wc2014_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wc2014_logo.jpg\" height=\"458\" width=\"399\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>AFC has announced the rankings for the FIFA World Cup 2014 Asian  Qualifiers Round 1 draw that takes place on 30 March 2010 at AFC House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rankings are based on the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Finals  as well as the Asian qualifying rounds for the main tournament. The  final number of entries will be confirmed later by FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Newly crowned Asian champions Japan are the top-ranked team, followed  in second place by fellow East Asians Korea Republic. Both the sides  had reached the Round of 16 in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Australia and DPR Korea, the two other Asian teams which had played  in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and 2010 FIFA World Cup Asian play-off  participants Bahrain round off the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Brunei DS, who are suspended by FIFA, are the only team not ranked among AFC\u2019s 46 Member Associations.<strong><\/p>\n<p>Rankings for the FIFA World Cup 2014 Asian Qualifiers Round 1<\/strong><br \/> 1.\u00a0Japan, 2. Korea Republic, 3. Australia, 4. DPR Korea, 5. Bahrain,  6. Saudi Arabia, 7. Iran, 8, Qatar, 9. Uzbekistan, 10. UAE, 11. Syria,  12. Oman, 13. Jordan, 14. Iraq, 15. Singapore, 16, China, 17, Kuwait,  18. Thailand, 19. Turkmenistan, 20. Lebanon, 21, Yemen, 22. Tajikistan,  23. Hong Kong, 24. Indonesia, 25. Kyrgyzstan, 26. Maldives, 27. India,  28. Malaysia, 29-30, Afghanistan, Cambodia, 31. Nepal, 32. Bangladesh,  33-34. Sri Lanka, Vietnam, 35. Mongolia, 36. Pakistan, 37. Palestine,  38. Timor Leste, 39. Macau, 40-41. Chinese Taipei, Myanmar, 42-43.  Bhutan, Guam, 44-45. The Philippines, Laos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, AFC has announced the rankings for the FIFA World Cup 2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":10408,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}