{"id":72511,"date":"2025-08-07T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72511"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:42:45","slug":"super-falcons-retain-36th-spot-in-fifa-womens-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/07\/super-falcons-retain-36th-spot-in-fifa-womens-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Falcons Retain 36th Spot in FIFA Women\u2019s Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons have held firm at 36th position in the latest FIFA Women\u2019s World Ranking, reaffirming their status as Africa\u2019s top-ranked women\u2019s football team.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking, released in June 2025, matches their previous placement in March and places them ahead of South Africa (53rd), Morocco (61st), Zambia (62nd), and Ghana (66th).<\/p>\n<p>Globally, the United States remains in the top spot, followed by Spain, Germany, England, and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons\u2019 recent form includes back-to-back wins over Algeria (2-0, 4-1) and a narrow 2-1 loss to France\u2019s Les Bleues.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA\u2019s next Women\u2019s World Ranking update is scheduled for August 7, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons have held firm at 36th position in the latest FIFA Women\u2019s World Ranking, reaffirming their status as Africa\u2019s top-ranked women\u2019s football team. The ranking, released in June 2025, matches their previous placement in March and places them ahead of South Africa (53rd), Morocco (61st), Zambia (62nd), and Ghana (66th). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72513,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72511\/revisions\/72513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}