{"id":34581,"date":"2017-05-04T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34581"},"modified":"2017-05-04T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:17:59","slug":"indian-football-team-break-into-top-100-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34581","title":{"rendered":"Indian football team break into top 100 in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33994\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg\" alt=\"Indian football team Cambodia\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Kolkata: The Indian football team has made it into the top 100 of the FIFA world rankings for the first time in 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>As per the updated rankings, released on Thursday, the Stephen Constantine-coached side has climbed a rung and is now placed at the 100th spot along with Nicaragua, Lithuania and Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>The last time India were in the top 100 of the rankings was in 1996, with the 94th spot in February 1996 being the country&#8217;s best ever FIFA ranking.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s rise in the rankings has been due to triumphs over Cambodia and Myanmar, both away wins.<\/p>\n<p>India will next face Lebanon in an international friendly on June 7, ahead of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifying clash against Kyrgyzstan on June 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33994\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg\" alt=\"Indian football team Cambodia\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Indian-football-team-Cambodia-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Kolkata: The Indian football team has made it into the top 100 of the FIFA world rankings for the first time in 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>As per the updated rankings, released on Thursday, the Stephen Constantine-coached side has climbed a rung and is now placed at the 100th spot along with Nicaragua, Lithuania and Estonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[21288,13384,466,11624],"class_list":["post-34581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-fifa-world-rankings","tag-indian-football-team","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-stephen-constantine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indian football team break into top 100 in FIFA rankings - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34581\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian football team break into top 100 in FIFA rankings - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kolkata: The Indian football team has made it into the top 100 of the FIFA world rankings for the first time in 21 years. 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