{"id":44421,"date":"2021-12-10T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44421"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:19:26","slug":"irans-womens-football-team-climb-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/12\/10\/irans-womens-football-team-climb-in-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team climb in FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team moved up two spots to 70th in the latest FIFA ranking released on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly four months have gone by since the last FIFA Women\u2019s World Ranking came out, in which time more than 300 internationals have been played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only has the European qualifying competition for the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup Australia &amp; New Zealand 2023 got underway but the qualifiers for next year\u2019s AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup and CAF Women Africa Cup of Nations have also been taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things remain unchanged at the top, however, with the U.S. (1st, -) retaining first place, a position they have occupied since 2017, and Sweden (2nd, -) and Germany (3rd, -) remaining second and third respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet behind the three frontrunners it is all change. France (4th, +1) have shifted up one place to fourth, leapfrogging Netherlands (5th, -1), who have paid the price for recent results against Czech Republic and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain (9th, +1) have also climbed up one rung on the ladder to move into an all-time high of ninth, while Switzerland (17th,+3) were the biggest movers in the Top 20, rising three places to 17th, FIFA.com reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next FIFA Women\u2019s World Ranking will be published on 25 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Iran\u2019s women\u2019s football team moved up two spots to 70th in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44421","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-womens"],"views":1626,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44421","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=44421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44423,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44421\/revisions\/44423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}