FIFA Ranking: November 2008 preview (II)

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.

Germany up to 2nd.
England return to the top 10.
Paraguay enter the top 20 and are 3rd in CONMEBOL, overtaking Uruguay.
Israel will improve (again!) their best ever ranking, climbing one place to 15th. With a win (instead of a draw) against Latvia they would have been tied for 8th place with Russia...
Ireland overtake Northern Ireland.
USA still in front of Mexico.
Switzerland climb 18 places after defeating Greece.
Australia top the AFC ranking.
Ghana continue to fall, now they're fourth in Africa.
Jamaica will be the highest climbers on the back of their two qualifying wins - 34 places.

There are still some matches to play: ASEAN Cup preliminaries, Caribbean Championships preliminaries, Merdeka Cup and a couple of friendlies.

Rank and points as of today, October 20th.

Next update: November 6th.

November 2008 rank - Team - November 2008 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points

1	Spain	1657	0	14
2	Germany	1413	1	77
3	Italy	1356	-1	-9
4	Netherlands	1306	1	48
5	Brazil	1286	-1	6
6	Argentina	1181	1	-19
7	Croatia	1158	-1	-65
8	Russia	1079	1	3
9	Czech Republic	1062	-1	-49
10	England	1058	4	76
10	Portugal	1058	0	-17
12	France	1035	-1	0
13	Turkey	1031	0	10
14	Cameroon	1011	-2	-16
15	Israel	1004	1	43
16	Bulgaria	949	-1	-20
17	Paraguay	935	5	75
18	Greece	907	-1	-38
19	Romania	892	-1	-35
20	Ukraine	887	-1	-6
21	Egypt	876	1	16
22	Nigeria	852	5	34
23	Uruguay	838	-3	-49
24	USA	834	-3	-27
25	Mexico	827	-1	-14
26	Ghana	805	-1	-34
27	Switzerland	799	18	158
28	Côte d'Ivoire	782	1	3
29	Serbia	777	11	104
30	Sweden	775	-2	-19
31	Ecuador	770	11	109
32	Poland	765	-2	2
33	Scotland	761	-7	-59
34	Denmark	760	-3	0
35	Chile	752	1	38
36	Republic of Ireland	749	2	48
37	Australia	748	-3	11
38	Japan	719	-6	-28
39	Colombia	692	-6	-47
40	Guinea	691	1	21
41	Lithuania	678	-4	-28
42	Northern Ireland	670	-7	-51
43	Morocco	648	0	6
44	Iran	638	4	19
45	Slovakia	628	15	107
46	Honduras	622	4	21
47	Tunisia	613	0	-11
48	Finland	611	-5	-31
49	FYR Macedonia	603	-3	-34
50	Mali	601	3	14
50	Senegal	601	-1	-14
52	Saudi Arabia	593	-1	4
53	Korea Republic	588	2	36
54	Norway	574	-15	-106
55	Belgium	571	-4	-18
56	Hungary	551	6	44
57	Slovenia	542	16	85
58	Costa Rica	541	11	65
59	Gabon	534	8	53
60	New Zealand	533	-6	-51
61	Burkina Faso	521	2	19
62	Wales	518	-1	0
63	Algeria	514	-7	-28
64	Belarus	507	-5	-15
65	Latvia	500	-1	-1
66	Bolivia	497	8	41
66	Venezuela	497	0	13
68	Bosnia-Herzegovina	493	7	47
69	Angola	474	-1	-5
69	Congo	474	-12	-62
71	Zambia	466	-1	-2
72	Peru	465	-14	-68
73	Iraq	452	4	9
74	Bahrain	450	-2	-15
75	Moldova	449	-10	-51
76	South Africa	443	9	32
77	Qatar	439	1	3
78	Uzbekistan	438	-8	-30
79	Canada	434	5	19
80	Trinidad and Tobago	429	8	25
81	Iceland	422	22	77
82	Jamaica	421	34	126
82	Uganda	421	13	45
84	Cuba	419	14	53
84	Libya	419	-8	-25
86	Kenya	412	-7	-21
87	Albania	409	-4	-7
88	Rwanda	406	-1	-4
89	Panama	404	2	19
90	Gambia	400	0	11
91	Togo	395	0	10
91	Austria	395	-9	-27
93	Mozambique	391	7	36
94	Benin	388	-13	-41
95	Congo DR	387	-10	-24
96	Oman	384	-2	4
97	Zimbabwe	374	-6	-11
98	China PR	371	-2	-3
99	Georgia	364	-2	-4
100	Sudan	360	6	34
101	Ethiopia	348	1	0
101	Syria	348	-2	-13
103	Malawi	346	6	36
104	Tanzania	341	6	34
104	Haiti	341	0	1
106	Cyprus	337	-26	-93
107	Korea DPR	315	0	0
107	Guatemala	315	-18	-79
109	Barbados	309	5	9
110	Cape Verde Islands	303	-6	-37
111	Armenia	302	-10	-51
112	El Salvador	299	8	14
113	United Arab Emirates	297	-3	-10
114	Namibia	290	12	31
114	Guyana	290	4	0
116	Jordan	289	-4	-14
117	Montenegro	285	0	-9
118	Thailand	278	-6	-25
119	Botswana	277	-4	-19
120	New Caledonia	275	2	0
120	Equatorial Guinea	275	1	-9
122	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	268	3	7
123	Chad	260	-4	-28
124	Suriname	258	-16	-53
125	Sierra Leone	252	8	20
125	Kazakhstan	252	6	5
127	Bermuda	251	2	0
128	Luxembourg	245	-5	-28
129	Kuwait	242	-5	-30
130	Burundi	237	-2	-15
131	Estonia	235	6	17
132	Indonesia	220	7	9
133	Madagascar	209	3	-11
134	Azerbaijan	208	9	17
135	Singapore	205	-3	-28
136	Antigua and Barbuda	202	-3	-30
137	Eritrea	200	3	0
138	Grenada	199	3	7
138	Fiji	199	0	-18
140	Swaziland	181	1	-11
141	Puerto Rico	180	3	0
142	Liberia	179	11	20
143	Vanuatu	175	4	0
144	India	172	4	-1
145	Netherlands Antilles	169	6	0
145	Yemen	169	3	-4
147	Tajikistan	166	8	11
148	Niger	157	2	-15
149	Turkmenistan	154	9	39
150	Malta	153	-4	-23
151	Lebanon	151	0	-18
152	Liechtenstein	145	-17	-82
153	Malaysia	131	7	22
154	Maldives	129	0	-27
155	Kyrgyzstan	128	-28	-125
156	Philippines	126	9	37
157	Myanmar	121	0	5
158	Hong Kong	119	-28	-131
159	Mauritania	112	-14	-66
160	Lesotho	109	-1	-4
161	St. Kitts and Nevis	105	-5	-18
162	Cayman Islands	101	0	0
163	Solomon Islands	100	0	0
164	Vietnam	99	1	10
165	Seychelles	93	-1	-3
166	Pakistan	90	2	3
167	Sri Lanka	89	-2	0
168	Turks and Caicos Islands	83	1	0
169	Chinese Taipei	82	4	11
170	Bahamas	81	0	0
171	St. Lucia	77	-10	-31
172	Mauritius	74	-1	0
173	Guinea-Bissau	72	-1	0
174	Belize	71	-1	0
175	Cambodia	69	7	26
176	British Virgin Islands	67	0	0
176	Nepal	67	-1	-1
178	Dominican Republic	66	-1	0
179	Samoa	64	-1	0
180	Bangladesh	53	-1	-2
181	Afghanistan	51	1	8
182	Nicaragua	45	-1	0
183	Brunei Darussalam	39	1	3
184	Faroe Islands	37	14	30
185	Palestine	34	-5	-16
186	Bhutan	32	1	0
186	Tahiti	32	1	0
186	Tonga	32	1	0
186	Djibouti	32	0	-3
190	Laos	31	0	3
191	Dominica	25	0	0
192	Mongolia	24	0	0
193	Aruba	22	0	0
194	Andorra	19	-10	-17
195	US Virgin Islands	17	-1	0
196	Comoros	13	-1	0
197	Macau	10	-1	-1
198	Timor-Leste	8	2	8
198	Somalia	8	-1	0
200	Central African Republic	6	-1	0
201	American Samoa	0	-1	0
201	Anguilla	0	-1	0
201	Cook Islands	0	-1	0
201	Guam	0	-1	0
201	Montserrat	0	-1	0
201	Papua New Guinea	0	-1	0
201	San Marino	0	-1	0

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