{"id":26571,"date":"2016-11-24T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T19:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26571"},"modified":"2016-11-24T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T19:52:43","slug":"iran-still-lead-the-way-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/24\/iran-still-lead-the-way-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran still lead the way in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran have remained Asia&#8217;s top-ranked team, despite dropping three places to be 30th overall in the latest FIFA World Ranking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s continued dominance sees them lead the way from Korea Republic, who claimed second spot after moving up seven spots to be ranked 37th globally, third-placed Japan (45th), Australia (48th) in fourth and Saudi Arabia (56th) who are ranked fifth in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>All five teams are currently competing in the third round of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a race to Russia that currently has an unbeaten Iran leading Group A and Saudi Arabia edging out Japan to sit atop Group B.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Thailand\u2019s continued renaissance helped them climb 17 places to be ranked 129th in the world, while Macau moved up 12 spots to be ranked 184th globally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia&#8217;s Top 10 (global ranking in brackets)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran (30th)<br \/>\nKorea Republic (37th)<br \/>\nJapan (45th)<br \/>\nAustralia (48th)<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia (56th)<br \/>\nUzbekistan (62nd)<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates (64th)<br \/>\nChina PR (83rd)<br \/>\nQatar (88th)<br \/>\nSyria (94th)<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on December 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Islamic Republic of Iran have remained Asia&#8217;s top-ranked team, despite dropping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26571","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-world-cup"],"views":2371,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571","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=26571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}