{"id":35771,"date":"2025-11-20T07:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35771"},"modified":"2025-11-20T07:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:38:23","slug":"nepal-drop-to-182nd-in-latest-fifa-rankings-lowest-in-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepal-drop-to-182nd-in-latest-fifa-rankings-lowest-in-nine-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal drop to 182nd in latest FIFA rankings, Lowest in nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"338\"><strong>Kathmandu, November 20:<\/strong> Nepal\u2019s national football team has slipped two places in the latest FIFA World Ranking released on Wednesday evening, dropping to 182nd, the country\u2019s lowest position in the past nine years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"340\" data-end=\"667\">The decline comes as Bangladesh overtakes Nepal to become South Asia\u2019s third-ranked team. Bangladesh climbed three spots to 180th following a 2\u20132 draw against Nepal in a recent friendly and a remarkable win over India in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers. Nepal, meanwhile, suffered a 1\u20130 defeat to Malaysia in the same competition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"923\">Within South Asia, India also saw a significant drop, falling six places to 142nd. The Maldives remain unchanged at 173rd, while Bhutan slipped three places to 192nd. Sri Lanka and Pakistan each dropped one position, ranking 194th and 199th respectively.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"925\" data-end=\"1072\">Spain continue to lead the global top 10, followed by Argentina, France, England, Brazil, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, November 20: Nepal\u2019s national football team has slipped two places in the latest FIFA World Ranking released on Wednesday evening, dropping to 182nd, the country\u2019s lowest position in the past nine years. The decline comes as Bangladesh overtakes Nepal to become South Asia\u2019s third-ranked team. Bangladesh climbed three spots to 180th following a 2\u20132 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35772,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35771\/revisions\/35772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}