{"id":38717,"date":"2025-12-22T23:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=38717"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:12:56","slug":"algeria-climbs-fifa-rankings-surpasses-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=38717","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Climbs FIFA Rankings, Surpasses Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Algiers<\/strong> &#8211; The Algerian national football team has ascended in the latest FIFA world rankings, released today. The Desert Foxes now stand at 34th globally, a one-position improvement from the previous ranking.<\/p>\n<p>This rise places Algeria ahead of Egypt, who slipped down one spot in the global standings. According to FIFA&#8217;s official website, Algeria gained 1.31 points, bringing their total to 1517.68 points, up from 1516.37.<\/p>\n<p>This progress is attributed to the positive results achieved during the month of November. <em>Les Verts<\/em> secured friendly victories against Zimbabwe (3-1) and Saudi Arabia (2-0). Furthermore, the performance of the national team in the Arab Cup, where they reached the quarter-finals before being eliminated by the United Arab Emirates on penalties, contributed to the improved ranking.<\/p>\n<p>On the Arab stage, Algeria now occupies the third position, trailing behind Morocco, who gained 3.22 points, and Senegal, who maintained their second-place ranking with the same number of points.<\/p>\n<p>This ranking boost comes ahead of Algeria&#8217;s opening match in the Africa Cup of Nations this Wednesday against Sudan. Fans are hopeful that this momentum will translate into success on the continental stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">More Sports articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers &#8211; The Algerian national football team has ascended in the latest FIFA world rankings, released today. The Desert Foxes now stand at 34th globally, a one-position improvement from the previous ranking.This rise places Algeria ahead of Egypt, who slipped down one spo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":30,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38719,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38717\/revisions\/38719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}