{"id":29479,"date":"2017-10-16T13:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29479"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:39:56","slug":"iran-continue-to-dominate-fifa-rankings-as-asias-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/16\/iran-continue-to-dominate-fifa-rankings-as-asias-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran continue to dominate FIFA Rankings as Asia&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Islamic Republic of Iran remain the best Asian team in the latest FIFA Rankings released on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite dropping nine spots to 34th, Team Melli &#8211; who have qualified for the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, maintain their position as Asia&#8217;s top team. <\/p>\n<p>After securing a narrow win against Syria in the FIFA World Cup Continental Play-off, Australia climbed seven positions to 43rd to overtake Japan (44th) for second place. <\/p>\n<p>China PR continue to rise up in the rankings, moving five spots to 57th, while Korea Republic and Saudi Arabia are at 62nd and 63rd respectively. <\/p>\n<p>United Arab Emirates remained unchanged at eighth place, ranking 72nd, with Uzbekistan (76th), Syria (77th) and Iraq (80th) to complete Asia&#8217;s top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia\u2019s Top 10 (global rankings in brackets)<\/strong><br \/>\nIran (34th)<br \/>\nAustralia (43rd)<br \/>\nJapan (44th)<br \/>\nChina PR (57th)<br \/>\nKorea Republic (62nd)<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia (63rd)<br \/>\nUnited Arab Emirates (72nd)<br \/>\nUzbekistan (76th)<br \/>\nSyria (77th)<br \/>\nIraq (80th)<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA Ranking will be released on November 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Islamic Republic of Iran remain the best Asian team in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":3567,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29479","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=29479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29479\/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=29479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}