2010 WC Seeding: Looking ahead (July 2008)

Since amirbachar requested this...

Probable December 2008 and November 2009 FIFA Rankings - the ones involved in the FIFA World Cup seeding formula. I'll try to update this monthly - if I'll have the time.

It doesn't look good for England. It's interesting to see what an amazing effect the home defeat against Croatia could have: missing EURO 2008, missing seeded status in the WC 2010 preliminary draw and probably loosing seeded status in the WC 2010 final draw. Of course, there are plenty of matches to be played that will affect these rankings, so it's not done and dusted yet.

Probable top 50 in the December 2008 FIFA rankings:

1	Spain	1824
2	Germany	1413
3	Netherlands	1411
4	Italy	1332
5	Croatia	1275
6	Argentina	1149
7	Portugal	1147
8	Russia	1122
9	Brazil	1075
10	Cameroon	1036
11	Turkey	1028
12	Czech Republic	1000
13	Ghana	963
14	Egypt	949
15	France	927
16	Nigeria	880
17	Romania	858
18	Uruguay	835
19	England	823
20	Côte d'Ivoire	818
21	Mexico	762
22	Greece	742
23	USA	740
24	Sweden	728
25	Chile	725
26	Japan	720
27	Guinea	716
28	Switzerland	695
29	Paraguay	689
30	Australia	686
31	Mali	680
32	Morocco	674
33	Ukraine	661
34	Tunisia	657
35	Bulgaria	654
36	Saudi Arabia	648
37	Iran	642
37	Poland	642
39	Israel	630
40	Senegal	619
41	Colombia	594
42	Korea Republic	584
43	Uzbekistan	574
44	Honduras	573
45	Scotland	568
46	Burkina Faso	565
46	Denmark	565
48	Bolivia	549
49	Ecuador	530
50	Angola	525
50	Kenya	525

Probable top 50 in the November 2009 FIFA rankings:

1	Spain	917
2	Germany	731
3	Italy	698
4	Netherlands	673
5	Croatia	657
6	Brazil	601
7	Argentina	595
8	Portugal	589
9	Russia	557
10	Czech Republic	533
11	Cameroon	508
12	Turkey	499
13	France	499
14	Romania	470
15	Egypt	460
16	Ghana	454
17	Nigeria	445
18	England	423
19	Bulgaria	420
20	Greece	415
21	Israel	402
22	Côte d'Ivoire	400
23	Sweden	376
24	Paraguay	374
25	Mexico	368
26	Uruguay	367
26	Guinea	367
28	Ukraine	359
29	Mali	356
30	Australia	350
30	Japan	350
32	Denmark	341
33	USA	340
34	Ecuador	334
35	Chile	331
36	Switzerland	330
37	Poland	325
38	Morocco	322
39	Serbia	309
40	Iran	307
41	Tunisia	301
42	Saudi Arabia	299
43	Senegal	295
43	Korea Republic	295
45	Scotland	291
46	Colombia	288
47	Wales	287
48	Northern Ireland	279
49	Belarus	275
50	Uzbekistan	272
50	Burkina Faso	272

Top 10 in the seeding table:

1 Germany     60.3 30.3 30.0
2 Italy       57.0 27.3 29.7
3 Brazil      56.7 29.3 27.3
4 Spain       56.3 25.3 31.0
5 Argentina   49.3 21.0 28.3
6 Portugal    47.7 22.3 25.3
7 France      44.7 23.3 21.3
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8 England     43.3 26.3 17.0
9 Netherlands 42.3 14.7 27.7
10 Croatia     35.3  9.0 26.3

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