{"id":622955,"date":"2026-04-22T06:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:12:13","slug":"football-ferns-rise-in-fifa-rankings-after-goal-laden-world-cup-qualifiers-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622955\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Ferns rise in Fifa rankings after goal-laden World Cup qualifiers run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">However, since their first match of the second stage of World Cup qualification in February, the Ferns have scored 25 goals, aided by two 8-0 victories over Samoa and the Solomon Islands, and not conceded a single goal.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The Football Ferns have climbed up the world rankings after they qualified for the 2027 World Cup. Photo \/ Photosport\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The Football Ferns have climbed up the world rankings after they qualified for the 2027 World Cup. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">New Zealand still have a way to go to return to their all-time highest ranking of 16th, last achieved in March 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Elsewhere, reigning World Cup champions Spain have remained at the top of the global women\u2019s rankings, despite a recent loss to England, who themselves have moved into the top three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Turkey, El Salvador, Kosovo, Nepal and Saudi Arabia have all reached their highest rankings ever, while American Samoa were lifted 17 places to 120th, rising by 33 places over the last two ranking updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Other OFC nations to improve include Samoa, who are now 86th in the world, and Tahiti in 122nd place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Vanuatu have dropped to 79th, 89th, 104th and 111th respectively, while Tonga\u2019s ranking remained unchanged at 116th. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, since their first match of the second stage of World Cup qualification in February, the Ferns have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[9490,64,63,3933,120167,41794,26046,13201,596,301860,1899,4717,10320,301862,66215,132295,3410,19306,301861,7888,85,1928,24351,1720],"class_list":{"0":"post-622955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cup","12":"tag-december","13":"tag-falling","14":"tag-ferns","15":"tag-fifa","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-goalladen","18":"tag-have","19":"tag-in","20":"tag-latest","21":"tag-lowestever","22":"tag-position","23":"tag-qualifiers","24":"tag-rankings","25":"tag-rise","26":"tag-risen","27":"tag-run","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-their","30":"tag-womens","31":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}