{"id":52576,"date":"2024-12-19T20:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T04:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52576"},"modified":"2024-12-19T20:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T04:53:28","slug":"iran-ends-2024-unchanged-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/12\/19\/iran-ends-2024-unchanged-in-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ends 2024 unchanged in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iran national football team finished 2024 year unchanged at No. 18 in the FIFA ranking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Japan maintained their position as Asia&#8217;s top side, with the top 10 staying unchanged following the latest ranking released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest movers were Vietnam, who improved two spots to occupy 114th with Hong Kong, China moving up a rung to 155th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Japan stayed at 15th while Iran are second at 18th, while Korea Republic (23), Australia (26) and Qatar (48th) completing the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina signed off the year in top spot ahead of France, with Spain, the European champion, completing the podium.<\/p>\n<p>There were only limited changes in the rankings published on Thursday with just 21 international matches taking place since the previous standings were released in November.<\/p>\n<p>The next edition of the FIFA Men\u2019s World Ranking will be published on 3 April 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iran national football team finished 2024 year unchanged at No&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52576","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":1941,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52576","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=52576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52577,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52576\/revisions\/52577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}