Team Melli maintained the same ranking both in the World and in Asia in the latest FIFA Ranking for July 2016.
Iran Climbed remained 39th in the world , while staying as Number 1 in Asia.
in the monthly published ranking , Iran which had no matches last month accumulated a total of 674 down from the previous month of 688. However , that was still comfortably higher than the second place and its closest rival South Korea with 592 points while Uzbekistan (569) narrowly overleaps Japan (564) in third place.
In addition to South Korea and Uzbekistan Iran’s opponents in the World Cup qualifiers group are ranked as Follows: Qatar (79) followed by China (81) and Syria (104).
FIFA ranking
July 2016
| Asia | World Rank | Team | Total Points | Previous Points | +/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | 39 |  Iran |
674 | 688 | 0 |
| [2] | 48 |  Korea Republic |
592 | 591 | 2 |
| [3] | 56 |  Uzbekistan |
569 | 544 | 10 |
| [4] | 57 |  Japan |
564 | 581 | -4 |
| [5] | 59 |  Australia |
555 | 663 | 0 |
| [6] | 65 |  Saudi Arabia |
540 | 545 | 0 |
| [7] | 74 |  United Arab Emirates |
484 | 517 | -4 |
| [8] | 78 |  Jordan |
438 | 434 | 2 |
| [9] | 79 |
 Qatar |
425 | 407 | 5 |
| [10] | 81 |  China PR |
422 | 423 | 0 |