EURO 2012: Qualifying draw coefficients (21 August 2008)

22 August 2008

I divided the number of points for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers by the number of games each team will play in their group - amirbachar's idea. Thanks!
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The coefficients for the EURO 2012 qualifying draw will take into account results from:

2006 World Cup (qualifiers and final tournament) - 20% of total weighting
EURO 2008 (qualifiers and final tournament) - 40% of total weighting
2010 World Cup (qualifiers) - 40% of total weighting

Click here for more info on the coefficient system.

As mentioned before, I assume UEFA will use a qualifying system with six groups of six teams and three of five teams (Poland and Ukraine - automatically qualified as hosts).

Only one match played in UEFA: Kazakhstan - Andorra 3 - 0.

 1 Spain              23503
 2 Germany            23472
 3 Italy              22017
 4 Croatia            21556
 5 Netherlands        21445
 6 Portugal           20259
 7 Czech Republic     20251
 8 France             19650
 9 Russia             19526
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10 Romania            19464
11 England            19458
12 Turkey             19387
13 Sweden             19335
14 Greece             18684
15 Switzerland        17794
16 Bulgaria           17518
17 Israel             17451
18 Norway             17159
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19 Scotland           16771
20 Serbia             16731
21 Denmark            16601
22 Finland            15627
23 Ireland            15187
24 Slovakia           15187
25 Austria            14800
26 Northern Ireland   14437
27 Belgium            13565
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28 Bosnia-Herzegovina 13464
29 Lithuania          13291
30 Hungary            12607
31 Wales              12534
32 Latvia             12442
33 Belarus            12214
34 Macedonia          12059
35 Slovenia           11921
36 Albania            11659
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37 Cyprus             11231
38 Estonia            10892
39 Georgia            10859
40 Moldova            10774
41 Kazakhstan         10350
42 Armenia             9884
43 Liechtenstein       9201
44 Iceland             9054
45 Azerbaijan          7700
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46 Malta               7637
47 Luxembourg          6292
48 Andorra             6257
49 Faroe Islands       5320
50 San Marino          4703
51 Montenegro             0

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FIFA Ranking: Probable top 50 in September 2008

Point totals for teams from the top 20 of the October 2007 ranking should be 100% correct. For the others, there's the issue of historical rankings published before July 2006.

There are only 13 matches left to play this month (or more - I'm not sure about the Independence Cup taking place in Indonesia), so the top 50 is pretty much set in stone with the exceptions of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran could lose another spot with a bad result against Azerbaijan (of course, if they don't cancel that friendly too), while Saudi Arabia could lose up to three places if they don't win against Qatar.

Italy reclaim second place from Germany, Turkey return to the top 10 at the expense of Russia, but are still 5 places shy of their best ever ranking - 5th in June 2004.

Mexico managed to overtake the USA, but Scotland failed to get the win they needed in order to overtake England.

Despite losing 2 - 0 against Finland, Israel will go up one place to 19 - their best ever ranking. Same goes for New Caledonia (95th - previous best ranking was 114th), Chad (126th - 127th in July 2008), Montenegro (135th - 142nd in June 2008) and Bhutan (186th - 187th in December 2003).

Sweden will match their worst ever ranking, first achieved in August 1998 - 31st. Laos return to their worst ever ranking - 190th in June 2008.

Three countries will have their worst ever ranking: Tahiti (186th - 181st in June 2007), Andorra (189th - 188th in May 1997) and Faroe Islands (198th - 196th in August 2008).

New Caledonia and Kyrgyzstan will be the best climbers - 21 places, followed by Algeria (14), then Gabon and Guyana - both with 12.

The worst movers will be Solomon Islands, going down 24 places, then Samoa (-22) and Korea DPR (-21).

1	Spain	1572	0	15
2	Italy	1339	1	19
3	Germany	1329	-1	-14
4	Netherlands	1305	0	6
5	Croatia	1266	0	-16
6	Brazil	1252	0	10
7	Argentina	1230	0	11
8	Czech Republic	1134	0	-12
9	Portugal	1120	0	-2
10	Turkey	1033	3	23
11	France	1019	1	7
12	Russia	1013	-2	-10
13	Romania	1007	-2	-14
14	Cameroon	1001	1	7
15	England	990	-1	-13
16	Scotland	977	0	-11
17	Bulgaria	976	0	46
18	Greece	920	0	24
19	Israel	877	1	1
20	Ghana	866	-1	-26
21	Egypt	841	0	-10
22	Uruguay	817	2	4
23	Côte d'Ivoire	813	2	11
24	Mexico	807	8	57
25	Paraguay	802	-3	-18
26	Ukraine	801	2	15
27	Nigeria	791	0	3
28	USA	788	3	21
29	Colombia	786	-6	-30
30	Poland	779	-1	1
31	Sweden	772	-5	-29
32	Northern Ireland	761	0	11
33	Serbia	743	1	-6
34	Norway	732	-5	-46
35	Japan	701	0	-26
36	Denmark	696	0	-26
37	Morocco	671	0	-19
38	Republic of Ireland	662	3	-4
39	Chile	655	0	-25
39	Australia	655	-1	-30
41	Guinea	650	-1	-20
41	Finland	650	1	-3
43	Tunisia	644	4	15
43	Switzerland	644	1	-1
45	Senegal	625	-2	-24
46	Iran	624	-1	-19
47	Mali	610	1	-14
48	Moldova	575	1	-47
49	Saudi Arabia	569	3	-6
50	Hungary	562	0	-29

I will post an update on September 1st - to include the remaining matches.

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FIFA Ranking: September 2008 preview (II)

Friendlies have been scheduled and canceled since August 8th, so here's a quick update of the previous version.

Wales, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Honduras and Cuba could also make it into the top 50 if results go their way.

There will be 28 countries with less than 5 matches in the last 12 months, with New Zealand (3 matches) and Cuba (4 matches - including the qualifier against Trinidad and Tobago) catching the eye.

As the "current points" choice raised some eyebrows (Lusankya's to be more exact), I will use the August points and rankings instead for the first columns of the table.

Point totals for teams from the top 20 of the October 2007 ranking should be 100% correct. For the others, there's the issue of historical rankings published before July 2006.

August 2008 rank - Country - August 2008 points - Minimum points - Maximum points

1	Spain	1557	1543	1572
2	Germany	1343	1302	1329
3	Italy	1320	1332	1353
4	Netherlands	1299	1293	1329
5	Croatia	1282	1242	1266
6	Brazil	1242	1252	1252
7	Argentina	1219	1217	1256
8	Czech Republic	1146	1120	1162
9	Portugal	1122	1109	1120
10	Russia	1023	1000	1039
11	Romania	1021	976	1007
12	France	1012	985	1019
13	Turkey	1010	1005	1033
14	England	1003	973	1025
15	Cameroon	994	1001	1001
16	Scotland	988	956	1019
17	Bulgaria	930	928	976
18	Greece	896	891	920
19	Ghana	892	861	874
20	Israel	876	877	936
21	Egypt	851	841	852
22	Paraguay	820	792	821
23	Colombia	816	786	816
24	Uruguay	813	776	817
25	Côte d'Ivoire	802	792	813
26	Sweden	801	772	807
27	Nigeria	788	791	791
28	Ukraine	786	754	801
29	Poland	778	779	811
29	Norway	778	715	768
31	USA	767	735	788
32	Northern Ireland	750	738	807
32	Mexico	750	727	807
34	Serbia	749	743	743
35	Japan	727	701	730
36	Denmark	722	696	750
37	Morocco	690	655	671
38	Australia	685	645	675
39	Chile	680	655	695
40	Guinea	670	650	682
41	Republic of Ireland	666	643	700
42	Finland	653	601	650
43	Senegal	649	618	639
44	Switzerland	645	612	644
45	Iran	643	605	616
46	Belgium	637	531	605
47	Tunisia	629	636	659
48	Mali	624	610	637
49	Moldova	622	575	622
50	Hungary	591	557	572

The next update will be posted (hopefully!) on August 21st.

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Schimbari de ultim moment in ligile a II-a si a III-a

20 August 2008

Delegarile anuntate de CCA confirma modificarile aparute de site-ul FRF.
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18 August 2008

Rezultatele publicate de GSP infirma modificarile aparute pe site-ul FRF.
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Daca aruncati o privire pe programul ligilor a doua si a treia, veti observa urmatoarele schimbari.

Liga a II-a, Seria I

Dunarea Galati ia locul echipei FCM Campina

Liga a III-a

Seria I

Juventus Falticeni si FC Moinesti s-au retras.
In locul lor au aparut Otelul II Galati (din seria a II-a) si Raraul Campulung Moldovenesc (retrogradata).

Seria a II-a

Dunarea Galati a urcat in Liga a II-a, Otelul II Galati a fost mutata in seria I.
Apar FCM Campina (din Liga a II-a) si Farul II Constanta (retrogradata).

Seria a III-a

Adunatii Copaceni mutata in seria a IV-a si inlocuita de Electrosid Titu (seria a IV-a).

Seria a IV-a

Electrosid Titu mutata in seria a III-a si inlocuita de Adunatii Copaceni (seria a III-a).

Seria a VI-a

Mobila Sovata si Olimpia Satu Mare s-au retras. In locul lor au aparut CS Marmatia Sighetu Marmatiei si FC Bihor II Oradea (ambele retrogradate).

Noua componenta a seriilor ligii a III-a pentru sezonul 2008-2009:

Seria I
Echipe din judeţele: Suceava 2, Botoşani 1, Neamţ 3, Iaşi 2, Vaslui 1, Bacău 4, Vrancea 2, Buzău 2, Galaţi 1

CSM RARĂUL Câmpulung Moldovenesc (SV)
CS Rapid Suceava (SV)
CS Luceafărul Mihai Eminescu ( BT)
CS Cetatea Târgu Neamţ (NT)
SC FC Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ SA 2 (NT)
FC Laminorul Roman (NT)
SC FC Politehnica Iaşi SA 2 (IS)
FC CFR Paşcani (IS)
FC Bârlad (VS)
CS Aerostar Bacău (BC)
FC Willy Bacău (BC)
FCM Bacău 2 (BC)
CS Pambac Bacău (BC)
CSM Focşani (VN)
CS Panciu (VN)
CSM Râmnicu Sărat (BZ)
CS FC Petrolul ZF 1948 Berca (BZ)
SC FC Oţelul Galaţi SA 2 (GL)

Seria a II-a
Echipe din judeţele: Galaţi 1, Brăila 2, Tulcea 1, Constanţa 7, Ialomiţa 1, Călăraşi 1, Municipiul Bucureşti 4, Prahova 1

CS Politehnica Galaţi (GL)
CF Brăila (BR)
CS Viitorul Însurăţei (BR)
CS Săgeata Stejaru (TL)
CS Ovidiu (CT)
CSM Medgidia (CT)
CS Portul Constanţa (CT)
CS Năvodari (CT)
FC Callatis Mangalia (CT)
CS FC FARUL Constanţa II (CT)
CS Eforie (CT)
CS Unirea Slobozia (IL)
SC FC Dunărea Călăraşi SA (CL)
FC Rocar ANEFS Bucureşti (B)
SC FC Rapid SA Bucureşti 2 (B)
CS Inter Gaz Bucureşti (B)
SC FC Steaua SA Bucureşti 2(B)
FC MUNICIPAL Câmpina (PH)

Seria a III-a
Echipe din judeţele: Braşov 5, Prahova 6, Dâmboviţa 1, Teleorman 1, Ilfov 3, Bucureşti 2

CS Unirea Tărlungeni (BV)
CF Predeal (BV)
SC FC Săcele SA (BV)
CS Victoria Bod (BV)
CS Royal Braşov (BV)
CS Tricolorul Breaza (PH)
CS Conpet Ploieşti (PH)
CS Chimia Brazi (PH)
SC FC Petrolul Ploieşti SA 2 (PH)
CS Filipeştii de Pădure (PH)
CS Kaproni Gornet (PH)
CS Electrosid Titu (DB)
CS Petrolul Videle (TR)
CS Victoria Brăneşti (IF)
ACS Berceni (IF)
CS Inter Clinceni (IF)
CS Juventus Bucureşti (B)
SC FC Progresul Bucureşti SA 2 (B)

Seria a IV-a
Echipe din judele: Gorj 4, Vâlcea 1, Argeş 2, Giurgiu 1, Dâmboviţa 1, Dolj 5, Olt 4

CS Minerul Motru (GJ)
CS Minerul Mătăsari (GJ)
CS Energia Rovinari (GJ)
CS Jiul Rovinari (GJ)
FC Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea (VL)
CS Muscelul Câmpulung Muscel (AG)
SC FC 2005 Piteşti SA 2 (AG)
CS Adunaţii Copăceni (GR)
CS Viitorul Pucioasa (DB)
CS CFR Craiova (DJ)
CS Gaz Metan CFR Craiova (DJ)
CS Petrom Chimia Craiova (DJ)
CS Armata Craiova (DJ)
CS Prometeu Craiova (DJ)
CS Alro Slatina (OT)
FC Progresul Corabia (OT)
FC Balş (OT)
FC Caracal (OT)

Seria a V-a
Echipe din judeţele: Mehedinţi 2, Caraş Severin 1, Hunedoara 4, Timiş 8, Arad 3

FC Building Vânju Mare (MH)
CS Minerul Mehedinţi (MH)
CSM Reşiţa (CS)
CS CFR Marmosim Simeria (HD)
CS Vulcan (HD)
FC Corvinul 2005 Hunedoara (HD)
CS Dacia Orăştie (HD)
AS CS Unirea 2000 Sânnicolau Mare (TM)
CS FC Viitorul Sînandrei (TM)
CS Fortuna Covaci (TM)
CS Alto Gradimento Albina (TM)
CS Calor Timişoara (TM)
CS Nova Mama Mia Becicherecul Mic (TM)
SC FC Timişoara SA 2 (TM)
CS Progresul Gătaia (TM)
CS Gloria CTP Arad (AR)
CS Ineu (AR)
CS Naţional Sebiş (AR)

Seria a VI-a
Echipe din judeţele: Alba 1, Sibiu 1, Cluj 4, Mureş 3, Bistriţa Năsăud 1, Sălaj 2, Maramureş 2, Bihor 3, Braşov 1

CSM Sebeş (AB)
FC Cisnădie (SB)
CS SESO Iara (CJ)
FC Unirea Dej (CJ)
CS Sănătatea Servicii Publice Cluj (CJ)
SCS FC CFR 1907 Cluj SA 2 (CJ)
CS Avântul Reghin (MS)
CS Gaz Metan Târgu Mureş (MS)
FC ASA Unirea Ungheni (MS)
CF Gloria 1922 Bistriţa 2 (BN)
CF Zalău (SJ)
SC FC Silvania SA (SJ)
SC FC Baia Mare (MM)
CS MARMAŢIA 96 Sighetul Marmaţiei (MM)
CS Bihorul Beiuş (BH)
FC Liberty Oradea 2 (BH)
CS FC BIHOR Oradea II (BH)
AS CS ENA Inter Făgăraş (BV)

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Programul ligii a treia 2008-2009

FRF a dat publicitatii programul pentru Liga a III-a sezonul 2009-2009:

Seria I
Seria a II-a
Seria a III-a
Seria a IV-a
Seria a V-a
Seria a VI-a

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FIFA Ranking: September 2008 preview

A lot of friendlies will be played this month and a couple of World Cup and continental qualifiers.

Here's a preview of the September 2008 FIFA rankings (only the top 50). No matter what happens, Spain will remain on top, while Italy will return on the second step of the podium. Netherlands could go third with a win against Russia.

Looking at the rivalries, Mexico will overtake the USA with a home win against Honduras, while Scotland will overtake England for the second time in the history of the rankings if they get a better result against Northern Ireland than England against the Czech Republic. England will be safe with a win, no matter what Scotland does.

Argentina will overtake Brazil with a win against Belarus.

Spain, Cameroon and Japan are safe as top teams of their confederations.

New Caledonia will replace New Zealand at the top of the OFC.

Point totals for teams from the top 20 of the October 2007 ranking should be 100% correct. For the others, there's the issue of historical rankings published before July 2006.

"Current" = as of today (August 8th). I've included in the calculations matches played up to and including August 7th. Basically, these would be the point totals if no matches would be played until the rankings are published on September 3rd.

Current rank - Country - Current points - Minimum points - Maximum points

1	Spain	1603	1543	1572
2	Italy	1380	1332	1353
3	Germany	1341	1302	1329
4	Netherlands	1338	1293	1329
5	Croatia	1288	1242	1266
6	Argentina	1265	1217	1256
7	Brazil	1252	1252	1252
8	Czech Republic	1170	1120	1162
9	Portugal	1148	1109	1120
10	Russia	1042	1000	1039
11	Turkey	1039	1005	1033
12	Scotland	1027	956	1019
13	England	1016	973	1025
14	Romania	1012	976	1007
15	France	1006	985	1019
16	Cameroon	1001	1001	1001
17	Bulgaria	1000	928	976
18	Israel	944	877	936
19	Greece	925	891	920
20	Ghana	893	893	893
21	Egypt	866	841	852
22	Paraguay	824	792	821
23	Colombia	814	786	816
24	Côte d'Ivoire	813	792	813
25	Uruguay	808	776	817
26	Poland	799	779	811
27	Sweden	793	772	807
28	Nigeria	791	791	791
29	Northern Ireland	775	738	807
29	Ukraine	775	754	801
31	USA	758	735	788
32	Norway	757	715	768
33	Mexico	746	727	807
34	Serbia	743	743	743
35	Denmark	725	692	747
36	Japan	722	701	730
37	Chile	681	655	695
38	Australia	677	645	675
39	Guinea	675	650	682
39	Morocco	675	655	671
41	Republic of Ireland	674	643	700
42	Tunisia	655	636	659
43	Senegal	641	618	639
44	Mali	639	639	639
45	Switzerland	632	612	644
46	Moldova	629	575	622
47	Iran	627	603	633
48	Finland	626	601	650
49	Hungary	587	557	572
50	Wales	581	549	580

I'll try to post an update after August 20th.

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2010 WC: Seeding formula (August 2008 update)

Seeded teams for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Qualified teams determined using the current standings and the FIFA rankings.

No new teams this month.

England seeded, France unseeded (same total, but England's performance part is higher). I'm not sure how FIFA would go about this though...

Rank - Country - Total - Performance - Ranking

 1 Germany        60.3 30.3 30.0
 2 Brazil         57.7 29.3 28.3
 3 Italy          57.3 27.3 30.0
 4 Spain          56.3 25.3 31.0
 5 Argentina      49.0 21.0 28.0
 6 Portugal       46.7 22.3 24.3
 7 England        46.0 26.3 19.7
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 8 France         46.0 23.3 22.7
 9 Netherlands    42.0 14.7 27.3
10 Croatia        35.3  9.0 26.3
11 Mexico         31.7 19.3 12.3
12 Czech Republic 31.7  6.0 25.7
13 Turkey         29.3 10.0 19.3
14 Ghana          26.0 13.3 12.7
15 USA            25.7 13.7 12.0
16 Paraguay       25.7 11.7 14.0
17 Russia         22.7  3.0 19.7
18 Japan          22.3 13.3  9.0
19 Romania        21.3  0.0 21.3
20 Korea Republic 20.0 15.7  4.3
21 Cameroon       19.0  3.0 16.0
22 Greece         18.7  0.0 18.7
23 Australia      17.3 11.3  6.0
24 Cote d'Ivoire  17.3  6.0 11.3
25 Nigeria        15.0  2.7 12.3
26 Colombia       14.3  0.0 14.3
27 Egypt          13.0  0.0 13.0
28 Saudi Arabia   11.3  8.0  3.3
29 Iran           11.3  5.3  6.0
30 Chile           5.7  0.0  5.7
31 South Africa    4.0  3.0  1.0
32 Honduras        2.3  0.0  2.3

Top 7 + South Africa seeded.

The pots:

Pot A: Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain
Pot B: Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Turkey
Pot C: Australia, Honduras, Iran, Japan, Korea Republic, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, USA
Pot D: Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Paraguay

Possible draw:

Group A: South Africa, Netherlands, Japan, Colombia
Group B: Portugal, Czech Republic, Korea Republic, Paraguay
Group C: England, Turkey, Mexico, Chile
Group D: Germany, Russia, Honduras, Ghana
Group E: Argentina, Croatia, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon
Group F: Italy, Romania, USA, Cote d'Ivoire
Group G: Brazil, Greece, Iran, Egypt
Group H: Spain, France, Australia, Nigeria

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FIFA Ranking: August 2008 trivia

Yesterday was Thursday, the deadline for matches to be included in the August 2008 FIFA Ranking calculations. FIFA may include more matches though - but no later than Sunday.

See my earlier post for the top 50 of the August 2008 FIFA World Rankings.

Mexico will have their worst ranking (32nd) since the FIFA Rankings were introduced. Their previous low point was 26th in June 2004.

Same goes for Jamaica (108th - 105th in May 2008), Faroe Islands (196th - 195th in Nov 2007), Macau (197th - 196th in Jul 2008), Central African Republic (199th - 198th in Apr 2008), Papua New Guinea (200th - 199th in Jun 2008).

San Marino match their worst ranking - 200th (first achieved in May 2008).

Belarus will reach their best ranking (56th), improving their 57th position achieved in June 2008. Rwanda (82nd - 87th first achieved in Jul 1999) and Suriname (85th - 87th first achieved in Apr 2001) also improve their best ranking record.

Israel return to their best ever position - 20th (first achieved in April 2008).

France (12th, down 2) leaves the top 10 and is replaced by Russia (10th, up 1).

Honduras (60th, down 12) and Saudi Arabia (52nd, down 3) should leave the top 50 and will be replaced by Hungary (50th, up 2) and Mali (48th, up 3).

New Caledonia, up 11 places from 126th to 115th will be the this month's best mover, followed by Trinidad and Tobago (92nd, up 10) and Qatar (72nd, up 8).

Crashing down the rankings (i.e. losing at least 10 places) are: Vietnam (165th, down 41), Panama (93rd, down 24), Iraq (76th, down 18), China (101st, down 18), Indonesia (149, down 17), Jamaica (108th, down 14), Mexico (32nd, down 13), Honduras (60th, down 12) and Swaziland (133rd, down 10).

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