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Iranian Women’s Team Drops in FIFA Ranking

mahla — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:46:17 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) Team Melli Banovan dropped to the 67th place in the new ranking.

Japan continued to be the highest-ranked side in Asia, while the US national team ended the year at the top of the ranking.

While the biggest climber in this round of ranking was Estonia, which moved up by eight positions, Laos suffered the biggest drop, falling down 16 places.

The next ranking will be published on March 6, 2025.

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Iran in FIFA Ranking; 2nd in Asia

reporter 1222 — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:46:33 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran football is second in Asia in the FIFA World Ranking released on Thursday.

Japan remained as Asia’s best with Palestine the biggest movers as it improved three spots to 103 in the latest.

With limited matches played since the last FIFA World Ranking, Asia’s top 15 remained unchanged with Japan ranked 28th, followed by Iran at 31st.

The Korea Republic, at 40th, is the Continent’s third highest-ranked side, while Australia (42) and Qatar (55) completed the top five.

Palestine (103rd, up 3) was the first biggest climber of 2020. The West Asian side’s success in January’s Bangabandhu Cup saw it leapfrogs Estonia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mozambique and Kenya as it secured the biggest move by points and rank.

Pakistan (200, up 1) also improved its position amidst a rather quiet month in international football.

The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on April 9.

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Iran football moves up 3 places in latest FIFA ranking

reporter 1222 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 09:56:21 +0000

According to the latest FIFA ranking released today, Iranian men’s national football team has climbed 3 rungs up to 30th on the world stage while still remaining above all other Asian teams.

Fédération Internationale de Football Association or the FIFA released its latest edition of world ranking for football which shows Iran has moved up three places to 30th.

In the ranking of the best teams in the world, Belgium has ranked first, followed by France Brazil, Croatia, UK, Uruguay, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain and Denmark in second to tenth places.

Iran has remained Asia’s top team, followed by Australia in the second place, and Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia in the third, fourth and fifth places in Asia and Oceanic region.

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Iran still tops Asian football team in FIFA latest ranking

reporter 1222 — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:10:08 +0000

According to the latest FIFA ranking, Iran National Soccer Team (Team Melli) climbed five ranks to become 32nd in the world and took its title back from Australia.

In the new ranking of FIFA published on Thursday, Iran received 1,471 points to become 32nd in the world and first in Asia.

This is the first ranking after Russia 2018 World Cup using the new formula.
The first five Asian teams are as follows: Iran (32nd), Australia (43rd), Japan (55th), South Korea (57th), and Saudi Arabia (70th).

France, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, and Uruguay stand at first to fifth ranks respectively.

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Iran climbs one place in FIFA world ranking

reporter 1222 — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:30:47 +0000

Iran’s national football squad, while keeping its first place in Asia football ranking, has climbed up to 33rd place in FIFA’s Feb. ranking, up one spot since January.

The FIFA World Ranking is a ranking system for men’s national teams in association football, currently led by Germany. The teams of the member nations of FIFA, football’s world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.

In the newest standings, Iran rose to 33rd place with 790 points in the latest FIFA monthly rankings released by world football’s governing body on Thursday. The team has kept its number one Asia ranking, followed by Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia, respectively.

The top ten teams ranked by FIFA in the Februrary release are Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, France, and Chile.

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Iran drop two place at FIFA ranking

reporter 1222 — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 07:10:23 +0000

Iran national football team started the New Year as the world’s 34th placed football team in the FIFA ranking.

Team Melli, who have been drawn along with Spain, Portugal and Morocco in the 2018 World Cup Group B, are still the best Asian team.

Portugal and Spain are third and sixth respectively in the ranking and Morocco have moved one place up to 39th.

Australia (36), Japan (56) and South Korea (39) follow Iran in the ranking.

With just 22 matches played, all friendlies, since the December edition, it is no surprise to see few significant changes in the first FIFA World Ranking of 2018.

Germany remain at the summit of a static top ten, while Iceland (20, up 2) are the only team to enter the top 20, with the Netherlands (21, down 1) dropping out.

Croatia (15th, up 2) also made some ground, and there were more substantial rises further down the order. Tunisia (23rd, up 4), for example, built on the gains made during their successful FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, while Kuwait (174, up 15), Sudan (124, up 12), and El Salvador (90, up 10) all registered double-digit jumps.

The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 15 February 2018.

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FIFA Rankings: Iran end 2017 in 32nd place

reporter 1222 — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 06:00:58 +0000

Iran ended the year 2017 ranked No.32 in the world on the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday.

Team Melli are still the best Asian team above Australia, Japan and South Korea.

The world champions, who qualified to defend their crown in Russia by winning all ten of their qualifiers and have been unbeaten in 15 matches in 2017, succeed Argentina and Belgium, who were ‘Team of the Year’ in 2016 and 2015 respectively, FIFA.com wrote.

Germany held on to top spot in a largely unchanged Ranking that reflects the fact that just 41 ‘A’ internationals have been played since the previous edition, and that few of those involved teams at the top end of the table.

The result of that is a top 50 that shows only five changes, all minor and all outside the top 30, with Serbia (36th, up 1), Bosnia-Herzegovina (37th, up 1), Australia (38th, up 1) and Ghana (50th, up 1) all making identically narrow gains and Congo DR (39th, down 3) slipping slightly.

There is, however, some notable movement further down the order, with Vanuatu (157th, up 28), Vietnam (112th, up 13), Mongolia (187th, up 12), Myanmar (140th, up 10), and Fiji (168th, up 10) all registering double-digit climbs. Palestine (80th, up 2) and Luxembourg (83rd, up 1) also have reason to celebrate, having risen to their highest positions since the Ranking’s inception.

And while Denmark (12th, unchanged) have not advanced in this latest table, they have the distinction of ending 2017 as the year’s ‘Best Mover’ – having made a bigger points improvement on last year than any other team. Age Hareide’s side, who registered 456 Ranking points across the year, are unbeaten in 14 months, a run that culminated in their biggest win of 2017: a 5-1 play-off second-leg win away to Republic of Ireland that secured their place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup™.

The best movers in other confederations, across the entire year, are Bolivia (49th, unchanged), Jamaica (54th, unchanged), Lebanon (85th, up two), Cameroon (45th, unchanged) and Solomon Islands (151st, down three). Lebanon, in fact, have risen 62 places over the course of 2017 – the third-biggest overall gain in 2017 behind Macedonia (76th, up 86) and Andorra (138th, up 65).

It is interesting to note, too, that UEFA (29, up one) and CAF (8, up one) have ended the year with more top-50 teams than they began – rises that have come at the expense of AFC (2, down two). The number of representatives from other confederations remains unchanged (CONMEBOL 8, CONCACAF 3, OFC 0).

The next FIFA World Ranking will be published on 18 January 2018.

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Iran climb in FIFA rankings

reporter 1222 — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 05:35:44 +0000

Iran have climbed two spots in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday.

Team Melli remain Asia’s top-ranked team as they moved up to 32 in the rankings, an improvement of two places from October.

Australia – thanks to their FIFA World Cup 2018 Play-off wins over Syria and Honduras – also saw an improvement as the Asian champions jumped to 39th from 43rd spot previously.

Japan are Asia’s third highest ranked team but they dropped to 55th, down 11 places.

Korea Republic improved three spots to 59 while China PR dropped from 57th to 60th.

Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Korea Republic and Australia will be Asia’s representatives at the FIFA World Cup 2018 Russia.
The top five remain unchanged in the World Rankings, with Germany still ranked as the best team in the world.

Spain have risen two places to sixth, with Switzerland also entering the top ten after rising three places to eighth.

North Korea were the most improved team, climbing 18 places to 114th, while Laos fell by 22 and are ranked 184th in the world.

Anguilla, the Bahamas, Eritrea, Gibraltar, Somalia and Tonga are jointly ranked as the worst team in the world, with zero points.

The next FIFA World Ranking will be released on December 21.

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