TEHRANTIMES - Iran remained Asia’s top team in the FIFA world rankings published on Thursday.

South Korea, Japan, Uzbekistan and Australia are behind Iran.

The result of this, after the significant changes that arose last month from the various continental championships, is that Argentina remains top, followed closely by Belgium, Colombia, Germany and Chile.

Just two international matches, both friendlies, have been played since the July Ranking, meaning that the changes that have taken place are generally minor.

The devaluation of older games has been a factor in many of those, and it has benefited the likes of Costa Rica (21, up 6), Japan (49, up 8), Korea DPR (99, up 18) and Mauritania (104, up 15). The same process has not smiled on Cuba, though, who dropped 30 places to 151st position.

The next edition of the ranking will be released on September 15.