{"id":29843,"date":"2017-11-23T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29843"},"modified":"2017-11-23T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:58:36","slug":"iran-climb-two-spots-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/23\/iran-climb-two-spots-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran climb two spots in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran have climbed two spots in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli remain Asia&#8217;s top-ranked team as they moved up to 32 in the rankings, an improvement of two places from October.<\/p>\n<p>Australia &#8211; thanks to their FIFA World Cup 2018 Play-off wins over Syria and Honduras &#8211; also saw an improvement as the Asian champions jumped to 39th from 43rd spot previously.<\/p>\n<p>Japan are Asia&#8217;s third highest ranked team but they dropped to 55th, down 11 places.<\/p>\n<p>Korea Republic improved three spots to 59 while China PR dropped from 57th to 60th.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Korea Republic and Australia will be Asia&#8217;s representatives at the FIFA World Cup 2018 Russia.<br \/>\nThe top five remain unchanged in the World Rankings, with Germany still ranked as the best team in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Spain have risen two places to sixth, with Switzerland also entering the top ten after rising three places to eighth.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea was the most improved team, climbing 18 places to 114th, while Laos fell by 22 and are ranked 184th in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Anguilla, the Bahamas, Eritrea, G, braltar, Somalia and Tonga are jointly ranked as the worst team in the world, with zero points.<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on December 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran have climbed two spots in the latest FIFA rankings released&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1544,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29843","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=29843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29843\/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=29843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}