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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

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Football
 
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

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2009
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