{"id":435316,"date":"2025-09-19T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435316\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:17:14","slug":"soccer-spain-return-to-top-of-fifa-rankings-germany-drop-outside-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435316\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Spain return to top of FIFA rankings, Germany drop outside top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reuters) &#8211; Euro 2024 champions Spain have climbed to the top of the FIFA rankings for the first time in 11 years while Germany dropped out of the top 10, world soccer&#8217;s governing body said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France moved up to second in the latest rankings published on Thursday with reigning World Cup champions Argentina slipping to third after their 1-0 loss to Ecuador in 2026 qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nations League winners Portugal climbed one spot to fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Germany dropped outside the top 10 for the first time in almost a year after their defeat in Slovakia earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Slovakia were the biggest movers, surging 10 places to 42nd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TOP 10-RANKED NATIONS<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">1. Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">2. France<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">3. Argentina<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">4. England<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">5. Portugal<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">6. Brazil<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">7. Netherlands<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">8. Belgium<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">9. Croatia<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">10. Italy<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) &#8211; Euro 2024 champions Spain have climbed to the top of the FIFA rankings for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[10105,1789,2106,13490,21434,393,2000,299,36,1824,147670,2199,5508,1477,3046,104,147671],"class_list":{"0":"post-435316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-croatia","12":"tag-ecuador","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-governing-body","19":"tag-italy","20":"tag-nations-league","21":"tag-netherlands","22":"tag-portugal","23":"tag-spain","24":"tag-world-soccer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115229271274839538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435316","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=435316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}