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Jordan’s women’s team up to 54th in FIFA rankings

By Aline Bannayan - Mar 29,2015 - Last updated at Mar 29,2015

AMMAN — The women's national football team went up two spots to 54th in the latest FIFA rankings issued on the weekend.

Germany leads the table followed by the US, France, Japan, Sweden, England, Brazil, Canada, North Korea and Australia.

The Kingdom leads all Arab teams and is 11th in the Asian continent ahead of Japan, North Korea, Australia, China, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Myanmar and Uzbekistan.

The latest rank comes after the squad topped Asian Group A qualifiers and reached Round 2 of the qualifiers — the first phase of the qualifying journey to the 2016 Summer Olympics football tournament — which are set for September.

Jordan beat Uzbekistan 2-0, Hong Kong 1-0 and Palestine 6-0. Group leaders will join Vietnam and Thailand in Round 2, from  which the top team will move to Round 3 to play the top five seeded teams — Japan, Australia, South Korea, North Korea and China — which eventually qualifies the top two to represent Asia at the Olympic Games.

It was Jordan's second time in the qualifiers after the 2012 London Olympic qualifiers when they advanced to
Round 2.

Team officials hope the squad will make up for a disappointing 2014 season when the senior women's team exited Round 1 of the 2014 Asian Games and similarly exited the Round 1 of their first AFC 2014 Women's Asian Cup where they were also  the only Arab team to have ever qualified.

In age divisions, the U-19 team last year failed to repeat their 2007 qualification to the AFC U-19 Women's Championship, which eventually qualifies the top three teams to the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The U-16 team also failed to qualify to the 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship after qualifying in 2013.

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