Brazil, who are also in the same group with the Falcons at the Olympic games, moved up one spot to ninth spot.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Africa\u2019s other representative at the Olympic games, Zambia now occupy 64th place.<\/p>\n The last time the Falcons enjoyed a massive leap in the ranking was August 2023, when they moved up eight places from 40th to 32nd.<\/p>\n The impressive movement in the ranking was due to their impressive showing at the 2023 FIFA women\u2019s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n <\/span>Despite being drawn in a tough group that had hosts Australia, Olympic champions Canada and debutants Republic of Ireland, the Falcons still went through to the round of 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Unfortunately, they lost to England on penalty shootout in the first knockout stage.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the next FIFA\/Coca-Cola Women\u2019s World Ranking will be published on 16 August 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Super Falcons of Nigeria maintained 36th position in the latest FIFA World ranking. The latest ranking was released on FIFA\u2019s website on Friday, June 14, 2024. The nine-time Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations champions still remain number one in Africa. Their Group C opponents in the football event at this summer\u2019s Olympic games in Paris, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[799],"class_list":["post-34892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-super-falcons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34893,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34892\/revisions\/34893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}