TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Team Melli Banovan retained his 70th place in the latest FIFA world rankings for women released on Friday.
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The American women’s team continues its run at the top of FIFA’s ranking, a position it has held since 2017. The USA is followed by Sweden and France.
FIFA pointed out that although 130 women’s international matches have been played since March 2022, little has changed at the top of the rankings.
Under the highest ranked nations there is movement and FIFA highlighted the continued improvement of Slovenia (45th, +2) and the Philippines (53rd, +1) who both reached the highest positions ever.
The highest climber in the ranking is St Kitts and Nevis who rose eight places to 130th place.
Looking at the top 20 shows a picture of the rapid growth of the women’s game in Europe, with the continent providing 13 of the 21 top ranked teams – North Korea is ranked 12th but this is a historical anomaly with the country not playing an international match dammatch since 2019.
The AFC has five teams ranked among the top 21, Concacaf has two and Conmebol only one.