{"id":58273,"date":"2026-07-20T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/58273\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:21:10","slug":"spain-go-back-to-the-top-of-fifa-rankings-morocco-reach-record-high-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/58273\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain go back to the top of FIFA rankings, Morocco reach record high | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Norway saw the biggest jump in their rankings by 12 spots to 19th after reaching the World Cup quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Published On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

World Cup winners Spain climbed back to the top of the FIFA men\u2019s rankings after dethroning Argentina<\/a>, who dropped to second place, while France remained unmoved in third.<\/p>\n

Luis de la Fuente\u2019s side beat 2022 champions Argentina 1-0 after extra time<\/a> on Sunday to return to the top of the rankings for the first time since January.<\/p>\n

France and England remain third and fourth in the rankings, despite Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side beating Les Bleus<\/a> to clinch the bronze medal.<\/p>\n

Brazil rose to fifth, while Morocco<\/a> climbed to a record-high sixth.<\/p>\n

Portugal fell two places to seventh after their Round of 16 exit<\/a> at the World Cup. Belgium moved up to eighth, swapping places with the Netherlands<\/a>, who dropped to ninth.<\/p>\n

Mexico<\/a> climbed four places to break into the top 10, while Norway were the biggest movers, jumping 12 places to 19th after reaching the World Cup quarter-finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Germany<\/a> fell out of the top 10, dropping to 12th, one place ahead of Croatia. Italy, who failed to qualify<\/a> for the World Cup, slipped to 15th.<\/p>\n

Tunisia<\/a> suffered the biggest fall, down 12 places to 57th, while Egypt<\/a> climbed five spots to 24th and Paraguay<\/a> rose seven places to 34th after reaching the World Cup last 16.<\/p>\n

Cabo Verde<\/a>, who reached the Round of 32, climbed three places to 64th, one ahead of Ghana<\/a>, who moved up eight places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway saw the biggest jump in their rankings by 12 spots to 19th after reaching the World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[313,17,314,1180,3003],"class_list":["post-58273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-football","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-us-canada","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}