{"id":28764,"date":"2017-08-10T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28764"},"modified":"2017-08-10T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T21:04:19","slug":"iran-remain-as-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/08\/10\/iran-remain-as-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran remain as Asia&#8217;s best in latest FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Kuala Lumpur: The Islamic Republic of Iran dropped one rung to 24 but remain Asia\u2019s top ranked team, in the latest FIFA World Ranking which was released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japan moved up two places to 44th to be Asia&#8217;s second best-ranked team ahead by Australia, who at 45th, maintained the position they were at in the July rankings. <\/p>\n<p>The Korea Republic improved to 49th, up two places and are the continent\u2019s fourth best-ranked team.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia complete Asia&#8217;s top five, moving up two places to 59th in the FIFA Ranking. <\/p>\n<p>Asia\u2019s teams will be in action in the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 Qualifiers and AFC 2019 Asian Cup Qualifiers later in August and early September. <\/p>\n<p>Iran has already confirmed their place as the first Asian team to earn a place in Russia next year. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia\u2019s Top 10 (global rankings in brackets)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran (24th)<br \/>\nJapan (44th)<br \/>\nAustralia (45th)<br \/>\nKorea Republic (49th)<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia (59th)<br \/>\nUzbekistan (64th)<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates (74th)<br \/>\nChina PR (77th)<br \/>\nQatar (78th)<br \/>\nSyria (80th)<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on September 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Kuala Lumpur: The Islamic Republic of Iran dropped one rung to&#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-28764","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":4278,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764","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=28764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764\/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=28764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}