{"id":326762,"date":"2025-08-08T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326762\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:35:09","slug":"us-womens-national-team-knocked-off-top-spot-by-spain-in-fifas-latest-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326762\/","title":{"rendered":"US women’s national team knocked off top spot by Spain in FIFA’s latest rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZURICH, Switzerland — The U.S. was knocked off the top spot in FIFA’s latest women’s rankings by world champion Spain. <\/p>\n

Spain regained the No. 1 position despite losing to England<\/a> in the final of the European Championship last month. <\/p>\n

The U.S. held the top position since August last year after winning gold at the Paris Olympics. Spain was No. 1 from December 2023 to June last year after its World Cup triumph. <\/p>\n

The latest rankings were released by world governing body FIFA on Thursday.<\/p>\n

England, which has won back-to-back Euros<\/a> and lost to Spain in the final at the 2023 World Cup, moved up one place to fourth. <\/p>\n

Brazil dropped three positions and is seventh despite successfully defending the Copa America to win its ninth continental title.<\/p>\n

Sweden and France were big movers after impressive showings at the Euros. <\/p>\n

Sweden rose three places and is third after being eliminated on penalties by England in the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n

France moved up four places to sixth after also losing in the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH, Switzerland — The U.S. was knocked off the top spot in FIFA’s latest women’s rankings by world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[117707,20305,3907,2000,299,88286,19438,10031,104,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-326762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-117707","9":"tag-2024-paris-olympic-games","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-fifa-womens-world-cup","14":"tag-olympic-games","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114990817158611752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}