{"id":25352,"date":"2016-06-02T20:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T03:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25352"},"modified":"2016-06-02T20:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T03:29:48","slug":"iran-moves-up-three-places-to-39th-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/06\/02\/iran-moves-up-three-places-to-39th-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran moves up three places to 39th in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran moved up three spots to reach No. 39 in the latest FIFA rankings announced on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran remains the best Asian football team, followed by South Korea (50), Japan (53) and Australia (59).<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been pooled in Group A in the final Asian qualifying round for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, along with South Korea (50), Uzbekistan (66), China (81), Qatar (No.84) and Syria (101).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Argentina maintained first place, followed by Belgium, Colombia, Germany, and Chile.<\/p>\n<p>The top movers were Slovakia and Madagascar. The Europeans climbed eight positions to take 24th place, while the island nation located off Africa\u2019s southeast coast climbed 29 positions into 108.<\/p>\n<p>The regional composition of the Top 50 this month is: UEFA (29), CONMEBOL (8), CAF (7), CONCACAF (4) AFC (2), OFC (0).<\/p>\n<p>FIFA rankings are based on the average number of points that a team accumulates over a four-year period. The ranking points in each match are determined by its result, its value and the relative strength of the opponent and their confederation. The system also has a yearly basis depreciation for the value of the matches.<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 14 July 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran moved up three spots to reach No. 39 in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":1772,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25352","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}