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Where do the FIFA Confederations sit against each other?

July 7 2009

The politicking and backroom power-play of FIFA and its Confederations within a World Cup year is as active as any other time previous.

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• With the exception of Italy, the teams in the top 10 all changed their position. Brazil will grab the headlines of course, as they are the new leaders in the FIFA Ranking. Spain drop to 2nd. Russia up three places to 6th.

  Best movers in the top 50:

  +20 – Côte d’Ivoire
  +19 – Algeria
  +16 – Gabon

  Worst movers in the top 50:

  -16 – Turkey
  -12 – Bosnia-Herzegovina
  -11 – Sweden

  Expected July 2009 rank for top 100

  1 Brazil 1672
  2 Spain 1590
  3 Netherlands
  4 Italy
  5 Germany
  6 Russia
  7 England
  8 Argentina
  9 France
  10 Croatia
  11 Greece
  12 USA
  13 Switzerland
  14 Serbia
  15 Denmark
  16 Australia
  17 Portugal
  18 Côte d’Ivoire
  19 Ukraine
  20 Uruguay
  21 Czech Republic
  22 Paraguay
  23 Bulgaria
  24 Scotland
  25 Israel
  26 Romania
  27 Chile
  28 Turkey 80
  29 Cameroon
  30 Costa Rica
  31 Mexico
  32 Gabon
  33 Northern Ireland
  34 Nigeria
  35 Ghana
  36 Ecuador
  37 Honduras
  37 Republic of Ireland
  39 Egypt
  40 Japan
  41 Poland
  42 Sweden
  43 Slovakia
  44 Hungary
  45 Bosnia-Herzegovina
  46 Colombia
  47 Algeria
  48 Korea Republic
  49 Tunisia
  50 Venezuela
  51 Norway
  52 Burkina Faso
  53 Finland
  54 FYR Macedonia
  55 Morocco
  56 Latvia
  57 Guinea
  58 Iran
  59 Mali
  60 Lithuania
  61 Saudi Arabia
  62 Slovenia
  63 Belgium
  64 Bolivia
  65 Jamaica
  66 Panama
  67 Bahrain
  68 Austria
  68 Wales
  70 South Africa
  71 Togo
  72 Trinidad and Tobago
  73 Cyprus
  74 Belarus
  75 Libya
  75 Uganda
  77 Zambia
  78 Oman
  79 Uzbekistan
  80 Benin
  80 Senegal
  82 Mozambique
  83 Korea DPR
  84 Moldova
  85 Cuba
  86 Qatar
  87 Peru
  88 Congo
  88 Grenada
  90 El Salvador
  91 Sudan
  92 Canada
  93 Iceland
  94 Iraq
  95 Albania
  96 Syria
  97 Tanzania
  98 Montenegro
  99 Gambia
  100 New Zealand

  Socceroos sixteenth in FIFA rankings (48)
  July 1st, 2009

• The FIFA World ranking takes into account several criteria that each has a scoring system. The basic logic of these calculations is simple. Any team that does well in world football wins points and lays the foundations for climbing the world ranking. However, the number of points that can actually be won in a match depends on the following factors:

  • All international “A” matches played in the previous four years (48 months). Similar to world tennis rankings, which the player has to protect his results from the year before at relevant tournaments, whereas football is over a four year cycle.

  • How important was the match (friendly match, Continental Qualifiers, WC Qualifier to FIFA World Cup match)?

  • Was the match won, or did it end in a draw?

  • How strong was the opponent in terms of its ranking position? Generally speaking, the biggest winners are the teams who win competitive matches, especially against high ranking opponents.

  • Strength of confederation? The strength of a confederation is calculated on the basis of the number of victories by confederation at the last three FIFA World Cup competitions. Consider the ranking of Australia’s opponents’ in the AFC and results of AFC teams in World Cups over the past three years, Australia will not be a FIFA ranked top 10 team, not until there are at least 6 teams from AFC in the top 20 and more AFC teams make knockout stage or more in World Cups to come.

  These factors are brought together to ascertain the total number of points and a final ranking position. Hence the great enormity of the Socceroos. The rankings are important in a World Cup year, as the top seven are seeded along with the host country into the eight groups.

  Socceroos sixteenth in FIFA rankings (48)
  July 1st, 2009

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