{"id":81204,"date":"2026-11-11T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/top-four-teams-in-fifa-rankings-set-to-be-kept-apart-until-semi-finals-at-2027-womens-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:56:07","slug":"top-four-teams-in-fifa-rankings-set-to-be-kept-apart-until-semi-finals-at-2027-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/top-four-teams-in-fifa-rankings-set-to-be-kept-apart-until-semi-finals-at-2027-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Top four teams in Fifa rankings set to be kept apart until semi-finals at 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Team must win World Cup group to trigger rule<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Spain, US, Germany and England currently in top four<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top four-ranked teams will be separated until the semi-finals at the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup, provided they each win their group, after a change to the tournament\u2019s draw procedure was confirmed by Fifa.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, the United States, Germany and England <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.fifa.com\/fifa-rankings\/world-ranking\/women\">are currently ranked<\/a> one to four in the world respectively, although the US and England still need to qualify for the tournament. The seedings will be based on 7 December\u2019s updated rankings, meaning the standings could change before the draw, which will take place on 11 December in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/nov\/11\/womens-world-cup-top-four-groups\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team must win World Cup group to trigger rule Spain, US, Germany and England currently in top four The top four-ranked teams will be separated until the semi-finals at the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup, provided they each win their group, after a change to the tournament\u2019s draw procedure was confirmed by Fifa. Spain, the United &#8230; <a title=\"Top four teams in Fifa rankings set to be kept apart until semi-finals at 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/top-four-teams-in-fifa-rankings-set-to-be-kept-apart-until-semi-finals-at-2027-womens-world-cup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top four teams in Fifa rankings set to be kept apart until semi-finals at 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}