Canadian soccer women slip 1 spot to 8th in world rankings despite 3-1 stretch

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The Canadian women dropped 1 spot to No. 8 successful the FIFA satellite rankings released Thursday. They finished 2024 astatine sixth successful the rankings, sliding to seventh successful March.

U.S. remains No. 1 portion Brazil is the large mover, climbing 4 places to 4th

Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 10:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

Canada's Vanessa Gilles battles for possession of a shot shot with Haiti's Melchie Dumornay during second-half planetary enactment successful Montreal connected June 3, 2025.

The Canadian women dropped 1 spot to No. 8 successful the FIFA satellite rankings released Thursday.

Casey Stoney's broadside won 3 of 4 games since the past rankings successful March, defeating Haiti doubly and splitting a two-game bid with Argentina.

The Canadian women finished 2024 astatine sixth successful the rankings, sliding to seventh successful March. Canada has ranked arsenic precocious arsenic fourth, past achieved successful March 2018.

The U.S. remains No. 1, followed by Spain and Germany. Brazil is the large mover, jumping 4 places to No. 4 portion dropping England 1 spot to No. 5.

Spain and Germany some won each their games since the past rankings, narrowing the spread with the U.S., which mislaid 2-1 to Brazil successful April connected a stoppage-time extremity by Amanda Gutierres. Brazil, beaten by the U.S. successful the Paris Olympics final, had not defeated the Americans since December 2014.

Sweden remains sixth with Japan, beaten doubly by Brazil, slipping 2 spots to seventh. Canada, North Korea and France, which fell 1 rung, implicit the apical 10. The Netherlands slipped retired of the apical 10, falling 1 spot to No. 11.

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Holly Ward scored her archetypal vocation extremity for Canada and Evelyne Viens scored doubly arsenic Canada defeated Haiti 3-1 Tuesday successful Montreal

There person been 168 women's internationals played since the March 6 rankings.

Elsewhere, Colombia jumped 3 spots to No. 18, cracking the apical 20 for the archetypal time. Paraguay roseate 1 spot to No. 45, portion Venezuela climbed 3 to No. 48 aft a 3-1 triumph astatine New Zealand, which dropped 1 spot to No. 33.

Despite the losses to Canada, Haiti climbed 3 places to No. 50 portion chap CONCACAF broadside Puerto Rico was up 2 places to No. 79.

The biggest climbers were No. 93 Egypt (up 7 places), No. 111 Luxembourg (up six) and No. 128 Bangladesh (up five).

The United Arab Emirates and Cyprus some fell 5 places to No. 117 and No. 132, respectively.

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