{"id":17933,"date":"2026-07-21T07:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/socceroos-drop-one-place-in-latest-fifa-rankings-after-world-cup-2026-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:07:35","slug":"socceroos-drop-one-place-in-latest-fifa-rankings-after-world-cup-2026-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/socceroos-drop-one-place-in-latest-fifa-rankings-after-world-cup-2026-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos Drop One Place in Latest FIFA Rankings After World Cup 2026 \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"T\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CommBank Socceroos have received their updated FIFA Men\u2019s World Ranking following the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup\u2122 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the tournament, Australia sat 27th in the world. They have now slipped one position to <strong>28th<\/strong> after exiting in the Round of 32 via a penalty shootout against Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the group stage, Tony Popovic\u2019s side picked up a strong 2-0 win over T\u00fcrkiye, suffered a 2-0 defeat to the United States, and played out a goalless draw against Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia ultimately finished 22nd in the final tournament standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Socceroos remain the third-highest ranked nation from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), behind Japan (17th) and IR Iran (22nd), with Korea Republic falling seven places to 32nd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Greece<\/strong>, meanwhile, sit in <strong>46th<\/strong> position with 1473.19 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spain claimed the top spot in the world rankings after defeating reigning champions Argentina in the final. Norway were the biggest movers, climbing 12 places to 19th, while Tunisia dropped the most, falling 12 positions to 57th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full FIFA Men\u2019s World Rankings, click here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next FIFA rankings will be released on 7 October 2026.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/07\/21\/socceroos-fifa-ranking-world-cup-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CommBank Socceroos have received their updated FIFA Men\u2019s World Ranking following the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup\u2122 2026. Before the tournament, Australia sat 27th in the world. They have now slipped one position to 28th after exiting in the Round of 32 via a penalty shootout against Egypt. In the group stage, Tony &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Socceroos Drop One Place in Latest FIFA Rankings After World Cup 2026 \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/socceroos-drop-one-place-in-latest-fifa-rankings-after-world-cup-2026-greek-city-times\/#more-17933\" aria-label=\"Read more about Socceroos Drop One Place in Latest FIFA Rankings After World Cup 2026 \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/socceroos.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}