{"id":152701,"date":"2025-09-18T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152701\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:22:12","slug":"history-made-again-canmnt-reach-record-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152701\/","title":{"rendered":"History Made Again: CANMNT Reach Record FIFA Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada Soccer\u2019s Men\u2019s National Team have moved up two spots in the latest FIFA Men\u2019s World Ranking, rising to #26. This new milestone surpasses the previous program best of #28, set just one month ago in August 2025. Canada have been on a remarkable rise since February 2024, climbing 24 places from #50 to #26 in just over a year and a half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s September FIFA window featured two historic victories in Europe: a 3-0 win over Romania (FIFA Rank #51) and a 1-0 victory over Wales (FIFA Rank #30). These results mark the first time in program history that Canada have beaten three UEFA opponents in succession (Ukraine, Romania, Wales). Romania was also CANMNT\u2019s first victory on European soil against a UEFA nation since 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, CANMNT are set to play four more fixtures this fall against nations ranked inside the FIFA Top 50. October will feature a highly anticipated return to Montr\u00e9al, where Canada will face Australia (FIFA Rank #25) at Stade Saputo on 10 October <a href=\"https:\/\/billets.cfmontreal.com\/cfm\/#\/a506253f-68e7-4712-8332-73e019637930\/shop\/search?fac=CFM&amp;locale=en-CA&amp;skin=canadasoccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">(BUY TICKETS)<\/a>, the first Men\u2019s National Team match in the city since 2017. The window will conclude with a match against Colombia (FIFA Rank #13) on 14 October. In November, Canada is set to play Ecuador (FIFA Rank #24) in Toronto on 13 November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ca\/event\/1000631CEC345951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">(BUY TICKETS)<\/a> and Venezuela (FIFA Rank #49).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada Soccer\u2019s Men\u2019s National Team have moved up two spots in the latest FIFA Men\u2019s World Ranking, rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-152701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}