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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