{"id":43922,"date":"2021-10-21T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43922"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:56:15","slug":"iran-remains-unchanged-at-22nd-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/21\/iran-remains-unchanged-at-22nd-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran remains unchanged at 22nd in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH,<strong> Iran national football team remained in 22nd place in the FIFA ranking released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>October 2021 was a busy month in international football, with qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, friendlies, and the final rounds of the UEFA Nations League all on the agenda. A total of 160 fixtures were played, the impact of which can be seen on the FIFA World Ranking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though their lead is now under threat, Belgium remains top despite UEFA Nations League defeats to France (3rd, +1) and Italy (4th, +1). Among the top five, only\u00a0<em>Les Bleus<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Gli Azzurri<\/em>\u00a0have improved their positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil remains second but is breathing down the neck of Belgium, just 12 points behind. England, meanwhile, drops two places to fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next edition will be published on Nov. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran national football team remained in 22nd place in the FIFA&#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-43922","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":2260,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43922","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=43922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43923,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43922\/revisions\/43923"}],"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=43922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}