{"id":73796,"date":"2025-08-16T23:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73796\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:47:11","slug":"football-ferns-hold-their-position-in-latest-fifa-womens-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73796\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Ferns hold their position in latest FIFA women&#8217;s world rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s Football Ferns have held their #33 position in the FIFA women\u2019s world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand maintain the rating after FIFA\u2019s revision of the tables in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s highest-ever position was #16 (in five sets of rankings between December 2013 and March 2016), and their previous lowest was #33 (June 2025).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the rankings have fared over the past five years:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59991\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"382\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ferns-rankings-Aug-2025.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Latest FIFA women\u2019s rankings<\/p>\n<p>In the three months since the last rankings were released, the OFC Women\u2019s Nations Cup took place, without New Zealand, leading to the change in positions of a number of Oceania nations.<\/p>\n<p>Oceania rankings<\/p>\n<p>Here are the current rankings for Oceania nations, with the latest movements in the rankings:<\/p>\n<p>#33 New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>#60 (-4) Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n<p>#73 (+13) Solomon Islands<\/p>\n<p>#78 (-7) Fiji<\/p>\n<p>#86 (+13) Samoa<\/p>\n<p>#100 (+19) Vanuatu<\/p>\n<p>#101 (+3) New Caledonia<\/p>\n<p>#107 (-11) Tonga<\/p>\n<p>#119 (-5) Tahiti<\/p>\n<p>#122 (-7)\u00a0 Cook Islands<\/p>\n<p>#153 (-1) American Samoa<\/p>\n<p>World rankings<\/p>\n<p>The top three sides have held their positions while the big movers were Brazil, who rose from 8th to 4th place:<\/p>\n<p>#1 (+1) Spain<\/p>\n<p>#2 (-1) United States<\/p>\n<p>#3 (+3) Sweden<\/p>\n<p>#4 (+1) England<\/p>\n<p>#5 (-2) Germany<\/p>\n<p>#6 (+4) France<\/p>\n<p>#7 (-3) Brazil<\/p>\n<p>#8 (-1) Japan<\/p>\n<p>#9 (-1) Canada<\/p>\n<p>#10 (-1) Korea DPR<\/p>\n<p>How the rankings are calculated<\/p>\n<p>Points are allocated to teams from their most recent games and are weighted using the following criteria:<\/p>\n<p>Result of the match.<br \/>\nHome vs away, or neutral ground.<br \/>\nImportance of the match.<br \/>\nDifference in ranking between the teams.<\/p>\n<p>Beating a highly-rated team, away, and in a tournament, rather than a friendly, can boost a team\u2019s momentum up the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>A win over a lowly-rated team can have little impact.<\/p>\n<p>Winning or losing, of course, is the most important criterion, but goal difference and goals scored are also taken into account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifa-world-ranking\/procedure-women\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: The methodology used to rank teams<\/a>\u00a0&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This story was first published on August 17, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffootballnz.com\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More football stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Football Ferns have held their #33 position in the FIFA women\u2019s world rankings. 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