{"id":28550,"date":"2017-07-06T15:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28550"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T22:45:43","slug":"iran-stay-as-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/07\/06\/iran-stay-as-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran stay as Asia&#8217;s best in latest FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The Islamic Republic of Iran remains Asia\u2019s top-ranked team, climbing seven places in the process to be 23rd globally in the latest FIFA World Ranking which was released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia leapfrogged the Korea Republic and Japan to be Asia\u2019s second best-ranked team, having climbed three spots to 45th globally, while Japan &#8211; despite dropping one place to 46th &#8211; remains as the third best in Asia. The Korea Republic dropped eight spots to 51st globally and are the Continent\u2019s fourth best-ranked team.<\/p>\n<p>Palestine was again Asia\u2019s biggest mover, climbing 22 places to 94th having risen eight positions to 116th last month.<\/p>\n<p>Asia\u2019s top 10 teams are currently competing in the third round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, with unbeaten Iran having confirmed their place as the first Asian nation to earn a place in Russia next year and Japan edging Saudi Arabia to sit atop Group B.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia\u2019s Top 10 (global rankings in brackets):<\/strong><br \/>\nIran (23rd)<br \/>\nAustralia (45th)<br \/>\nJapan (46th)<br \/>\nKorea Republic (51st)<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia (61st)<br \/>\nUzbekistan (65th)<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates (75th)<br \/>\nChina (77th)<br \/>\nQatar (79nd)<br \/>\nSyria (82th)<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on August 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The Islamic Republic of Iran remains Asia\u2019s top-ranked team, climbing seven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5335,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28550","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=28550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28550\/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=28550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}