{"id":26082,"date":"2016-09-15T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26082"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T00:05:47","slug":"iran-moves-two-spots-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/09\/15\/iran-moves-two-spots-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran moves two spots in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran leapt two places to 37th in the FIFA world rankings, released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team still is the best Asian football team, followed by Australia at 45th and Korea Republic at 47th.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s victories in 2018 World Cup qualifying this month has lifted it from ninth to fourth in the ranking, with Argentina keeping hold of its place at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium remains in second, edging third-placed Germany, who has climbed one spot in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>This month, the following teams reached their best ever position on the FIFA World Ranking: Guinea-Bissau (73, up 2), St Kitts and Nevis (77, up 4), Kazakhstan (83, up 13), Comoros (152, up 3), and Kosovo (168, up 22).<\/p>\n<p>A notable mention goes to the four teams breaking into the top 50: Scotland (44, up 7), Australia (45, up 12), Greece (48, up 4), and Uzbekistan (49, up 6).<\/p>\n<p>A total of 126 international A-matches were played over the past few weeks, bringing the total number of games for the 2016 to 632.<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 20 October 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran leapt two places to 37th in the FIFA world rankings,&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2267,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26082","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=26082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26082\/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=26082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}