{"id":1346725,"date":"2026-01-20T13:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-ukrainian-national-team-has-lost-ground-in-the-updated-fifa-rankings\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:38:25","slug":"the-ukrainian-national-team-has-lost-ground-in-the-updated-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-ukrainian-national-team-has-lost-ground-in-the-updated-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian national team has lost ground in the updated FIFA rankings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>The Ukrainian national football team took 30th place in the new ranking of national teams of the International Federation of Football Associations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> The Ukrainian Football Association reported this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> The UAF noted that since the preliminary publication of the ranking, the Ukrainian team has not played any official matches, but has dropped two spots. Ukraine has been overtaken by participants in the January African Cup of Nations \u2013 Algeria and Nigeria. Among UEFA teams, Serhiy Rebrov&#8217;s team is in 14th place.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> Ukraine&#8217;s first opponent in the 2026 World Cup qualifying playoffs, Sweden, is ranked 42nd. Of the other two potential playoff opponents, Poland is ranked higher, at 34th, while Albania is ranked 63rd.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> The Ukrainian football team has advanced to the 2026 World Cup qualifying playoffs and will host Sweden in the semifinals on March 26. Should they win, the Ukrainian team will play the winner of the Poland-Albania match on March 31 for a spot in the finals.<\/p>\n<p> Spain remains the leader of the FIFA rankings, Argentina is second, and France is third.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian national football team took 30th place in the new ranking of national teams of the International Federation of Football Associations. The Ukrainian Football Association reported this. The UAF noted that since the preliminary publication of the ranking, the Ukrainian team has not played any official matches, but has dropped two spots. Ukraine has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1290084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1346725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}