{"id":31137,"date":"2018-03-15T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31137"},"modified":"2018-03-15T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T22:44:42","slug":"iran-remain-as-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-ranking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/15\/iran-remain-as-asias-best-in-latest-fifa-ranking-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran remain as Asia&#8217;s best in latest FIFA Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR,<strong> The Islamic Republic of Iran remained Asia\u2019s top-ranked team at 33, in the latest FIFA World Ranking which was released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australia dropped one rung to 37th to be Asia&#8217;s second best-ranked team ahead of Japan, who at 55th, maintained the position they were at in the February 15th, 2018, rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Korea Republic dropped one spot to 59th and are the continent\u2019s fourth-best ranked team.<\/p>\n<p>China PR complete Asia&#8217;s top five, moving up three places to 65th, while Saudi Arabia occupies sixth after dropping five places to 69th.<\/p>\n<p>Australia, Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the Korea Republic will be in action in the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 in June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia\u2019s Top 10 (global rankings in brackets)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IR Iran (33rd)<br \/>\nAustralia (37th)<br \/>\nJapan (55th)<br \/>\nKorea Republic (59th)<br \/>\nChina PR (65th)<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia (69th)<br \/>\nUzbekistan (72nd)<br \/>\nPalestine (73rd)<br \/>\nSyria (74th)<br \/>\nUAE (79)<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The Islamic Republic of Iran remained Asia\u2019s top-ranked team at 33,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31137","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2565,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137","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=31137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31138,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137\/revisions\/31138"}],"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=31137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}