{"id":42499,"date":"2021-05-27T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42499"},"modified":"2021-05-27T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T17:46:33","slug":"iran-remain-unchanged-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/05\/27\/iran-remain-unchanged-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran remain unchanged in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Iran national football team remained unchanged in the in the latest FIFA Men&#8217;s World Ranking.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 are 31st in the world and second in Asia behind Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With only one match played since the last edition was published \u2013 a Ukraine-Bahrain friendly that ended all square (1-1) \u2013 the Top 50 remains unchanged, with Belgium leading the way from France and Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s one-place gain (98, +1) is the only movement among the 210 national teams that make up the ranking. Ukraine remain 24th but, having dropped points, nearest pursuers Serbia have closed the gap on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, while things are presently calm in the standings, that is all expected to change in the coming weeks, when a host of international competitions take place around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among them are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldcup\/preliminaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FIFA World Cup qualifiers<\/a> in Asia, as well as qualifiers for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/arabcup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FIFA Arab Cup 2021&#x2122;<\/a> involving teams from Africa and Asia in mid-June, FIFA.com wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next FIFA Men&#8217;s World Ranking will be published on 12 August 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team remained unchanged in the in the latest FIFA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1109,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42499","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42501,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42499\/revisions\/42501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}