{"id":27450,"date":"2017-03-09T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27450"},"modified":"2017-03-09T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:06:00","slug":"iran-maintain-position-as-asias-top-team-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/09\/iran-maintain-position-as-asias-top-team-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran maintain position as Asia&#8217;s top team in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran maintained their position as Asia\u2019s top-ranked team in the latest FIFA World Ranking, despite dropping to 33rd place globally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The continent&#8217;s top five teams remained unchanged with Korea Republic second and 40th overall, while Japan &#8211; third in Asia &#8211; moved up one spot to 50th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Asia\u2019s fourth and fifth ranked teams, Australia and Saudi Arabia, both dropped one place to 55th and 57th respectively.<\/p>\n<p>All of Asia\u2019s top ten teams are currently competing in the third round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, with unbeaten Iran leading Group A and Saudi Arabia edging out Japan to sit atop Group B.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia\u2019s Top 10 (global rankings in brackets):<\/strong><br \/>\nIran (33rd)<br \/>\nKorea Republic (50th)<br \/>\nJapan (51st)<br \/>\nAustralia (55th)<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia (57th)<br \/>\nUzbekistan (63rd)<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates (68th)<br \/>\nQatar (84th)<br \/>\nChina PR (86th)<br \/>\nSyria (95th)<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Islamic Republic of Iran maintained their position as Asia\u2019s top-ranked team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2900,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450","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=27450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27450\/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=27450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}