Iran fell 1 positions to be 60 in January’s FIFA world football rankings, which were announced on Thursday.
The 3 times winners of Asian Cup slide continues after the defeat at home against Uzbekistan in the FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 qualifiers. In December 2012 , Iran dropped 15 position to 59. but mainatained its ranking as the forith best team in Aisa. In the new years ranking and the first of 2013 , Iran dropped in the Asian ranking as well , it is now the fifth best among Asian countries with Uzbekistan easily taking Iran’s position.
The top ten ranks remained the same as Spain stayed top while Germany remained second before Argentina and Italy.
Top Asian Teams in FIFA Ranking
| FIFA Rank | Zone Rank | Team | Pts | +/- Pos | |||
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| 21 | 1 | Japan | 834 | 1 |  |
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| 34 | 2 | Korea Republic | 687 | 1 | |
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| 36 | 3 | Australia | 674 | 0 |  |
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| 56 | 4 | Uzbekistan | 555 | 11 | |
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| 60 | 5 | Iran | 537 | -1 |  |
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| 86 | 6 | China PR | 415 | 2 | |
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| 89 | 7 | Iraq | 392 | 3 | |
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| 95 | 8 | Jordan | 375 | -1 | |
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| 99 | 9 | Korea DPR | 363 | 0 | |
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| 103 | 10 | United Arab Emirates | 346 | -7 | |
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