FIFA Football World Rankings

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by

Since August 1993, FIFA has started ranking international teams in order to publish comparisons of their relative strengths at regular intervals. Initially one point was given for a draw and three for victory. This system of ranking was very simple and was far from the original objective. FIFA realized that more factors affect the result and to make the ranking more comprehensive, it made the following few changes:

Scaling up the point ranking by a factor of ten. Changing the calculation to take into account: Number of goals Home or away match Importance of Match/Competition Regional strength Not having fixed points for a victory or a draw. Allowing the match losers to earn points.

Previously the evolution period was eight years, but after World Cup 2006, it will be cut down to four years.

The ranking system was most recently revamped after the 2006 World Cup, with the first edition of the new series of rankings issued on 12 July 2006. The most significant change is that the rankings are now based on results over the previous four years instead of the previous eight years. The change is perceived to respond to criticisms that the rankings do not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams.

FIFA World Football Rankings of the first 15 teams for November 2009 by points are given below:

Rank Team Pts
Nov 09 +/-Rank
Oct 09 +/-Pts
Oct 09 1 Brazil 1632 0 28 2 Spain 1629 0 41 3 Netherlands 1340 0 -36 4 Italy 1215 0 29 5 Germany 1161 -1 -25 6 Argentina 1103 2 -10 7 England 1101 0 -26 8 Croatia 1087 1 -14 9 France 1049 1 9 10 Portugal 1042 7 162 11 USA 1025 0 51 12 Russia 982 -6 -147 13 Switzerland 961 2 63 14 Cameroon 949 15 130 15 Czech Republic 928 3 58

These calculations are under the 2006 FIFA revised calculation procedure for world rankings. It is a significantly simplified procedure. The new rankings are compiled in response to criticism from the media.

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