August 5 – July 2022 will seemingly go down in ladies’s soccer historical past because the month the ladies’s worldwide recreation modified ceaselessly.
5 main continental tournaments had been performed – EURO 2022, Concacaf w Championship, WAFCON, Copa America Feminina and the OFC Ladies’s Nations Cup. All of them had been expanded from their earlier codecs and all of them broke data for media publicity and fan engagement. All served as qualifying occasions for the Ladies’s World Cup 2023.
One factor that hasn’t modified is the dominance of the USA on the high of the world rankings, a place they’ve held since 2017.
FIFA notice that 221 ladies’s worldwide have been performed because the rankings had been final printed in June, with a file 185 groups listed within the new standings.
The USA have a bunch of challengers from Europe jostling for place behind them. Germany moved above Sweden into second spot, whereas Euro 2022 winners England moved up 4 locations to go fourth, forward of France and the Netherlands.
Canada, who misplaced to the USA dropped a spot to seventh, whereas Spain additionally dropped a spot to eightth.
The USA are scheduled to play England in September at Wembley in what might be an enormous check of the world topping rating. England are unbeaten in 19 matches below the brand new coach Sarina Wiegman.
WAFCON semi-finalists Zambia had been the very best movers, up 23 locations to 80th.
Concacaf w’s third place Jamaica additionally confirmed motion with the Reggae Girlz going up 9 spots and reaching their highest-ever rating at 42.
Cambodia (120th), Turkmenistan (137th) Timor-Leste (152nd) and Guinea-Bissau (169th), had been all rating for the primary time.
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