{"id":410062,"date":"2026-04-21T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:32:08","slug":"girls-in-green-shoot-up-to-23rd-in-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/410062\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls in Green shoot up to 23rd in world rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republic of Ireland have risen four places in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings after their back-to-back World Cup qualifier wins against Poland.<\/p>\n

Carla Ward’s Girls in Green are up to 23rd, leapfrogging the Poles who went into the Ireland double-header ranked 24th but subsequently dropped to 28th.<\/p>\n

Ireland’s highest ever position is 22nd, which they reached in the run-up to the 2023 World Cup.<\/p>\n

They are third in League A Group 2 of World Cup qualification having won 3-2 in Gdansk and 1-0 at Aviva Stadium last Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ireland will host the Netherlands at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh on Friday, 5 June before heading to France four days later.<\/p>\n

The Dutch have climbed one place in the rankings to 10th, while France remain seventh.<\/p>\n

Spain, USA, England, Germany and Japan make up the top five.<\/p>\n

\"Ireland<\/p>\n

It’s been an excellent year for Ireland so far. They are guaranteed a place in the World Cup play-offs but are still in with a chance of winning the group, which would earn automatic qualification to next year’s tournament in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Ward’s team, who are the fourth seeds in the group, know that victory against the Netherlands in Cork would set up a winner-takes-all showdown in France.<\/p>\n

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Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland have risen four places in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings after their back-to-back World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-410062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}