{"id":49763,"date":"2023-09-21T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49763"},"modified":"2023-09-21T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T15:42:14","slug":"iran-climb-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/09\/21\/iran-climb-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran climb in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>Iran national football team climbed one place to 21st in the FIFA rankings released on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Melli defeated Bulgaria and Angola in two friendly matches in September.<\/p>\n<p>Wins against Germany and Turkey in the recent international break consolidated Japan&#8217;s position as Asia&#8217;s highest ranked national team.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, who dethroned Brazil at the summit in April, remained top after beating Ecuador and Bolivia in their 2026 World Cup qualifiers earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Second-placed France, who lost to Germany in a friendly last week, retained second place followed by Brazil (third), England (fourth) and Belgium (fifth).<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 26 Oct.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Iran national football team climbed one place to 21st in the FIFA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":49764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1477,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49765,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49763\/revisions\/49765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}