FIFA Ranking: May 2009 final preview

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.

FIFA will publish the May 2009 ranking on May 6th. The deadline for matches is tomorrow, this means there are two more matches left: Myanmar - Cambodia and Bangladesh - Macau. Both are played in the AFC Challenge Cup preliminary competition and are considered friendlies for ranking purposes.

This is how their point totals could change:

Myanmar (W: 129; D: 125; L: 123)
Cambodia (W: 69; D: 63; L: 60)
Bangladesh (W: 70; D: 62; L: 57)
Macau (W: 39; D: 31; L: 27)

Little movement in the top 50 with Poland and Hungary moving up one place at the expense of Costa Rica and Colombia.

Best movers:

12 - Sierra Leone and Chinese Taipei
10 - Pakistan
9 - Maldives and Mongolia

Worst movers:

-9 - Lebanon
-5 - Seychelles and Bhutan
-4 - Angola, Philippines, Nepal, Belize, Brunei Darussalam

Grenada will have their best ever raking - 103rd. Their previous best ranking was 105th in August 1997.

Two countries will have their worst ever ranking:

Lebanon (159th - 151st in October 2008)
Andorra (196th - 195th in January 2009)

May 2009 rank - Team - May 2009 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points

1	Spain	1729	0	0
2	Germany	1362	0	0
3	Netherlands	1360	0	0
4	Brazil	1281	0	6
5	Italy	1271	0	0
6	Argentina	1195	0	-6
7	England	1173	0	0
8	Croatia	1151	0	0
9	Russia	1117	0	0
10	France	1074	0	0
11	Portugal	1013	0	0
12	Czech Republic	968	0	0
13	Greece	927	0	0
14	Turkey	923	0	-2
15	USA	919	0	0
16	Uruguay	909	0	0
17	Paraguay	906	0	10
18	Switzerland	883	0	0
19	Cameroon	871	0	0
20	Bulgaria	840	0	0
21	Israel	836	0	0
22	Ukraine	832	0	0
23	Serbia	819	0	0
24	Scotland	815	0	0
25	Mexico	803	0	-5
26	Chile	796	0	-10
27	Northern Ireland	795	0	0
28	Romania	792	0	0
29	Denmark	790	0	0
30	Nigeria	781	0	0
31	Ghana	779	0	0
32	Australia	776	0	0
33	Sweden	769	0	0
34	Republic of Ireland	761	0	0
35	Japan	749	0	0
36	Côte d'Ivoire	743	0	0
37	Egypt	742	0	0
38	Bosnia-Herzegovina	737	0	0
39	Honduras	736	0	10
40	Poland	724	1	5
41	Costa Rica	721	-1	0
42	Ecuador	695	0	-2
43	Hungary	662	1	0
44	Colombia	660	-1	-14
45	Korea Republic	641	0	0
46	Norway	640	0	0
47	Slovakia	626	0	0
48	Gabon	616	0	0
49	Mali	604	0	-5
50	Morocco	593	0	0
51	Finland	591	0	0
52	Tunisia	585	0	0
53	Guinea	582	0	0
53	Iran	582	0	0
55	Saudi Arabia	577	0	0
56	Venezuela	565	2	11
57	Burkina Faso	559	-1	0
58	Bolivia	554	0	0
59	Lithuania	550	-2	-5
60	Panama	547	0	0
61	Latvia	541	0	0
62	Belgium	534	0	0
63	Slovenia	510	0	0
64	FYR Macedonia	507	0	0
65	Togo	506	0	0
66	Senegal	497	0	0
67	Congo	493	0	0
68	Uganda	492	0	0
69	Gambia	491	0	0
70	Jamaica	481	0	-4
71	Bahrain	476	0	0
72	Algeria	475	0	0
73	Wales	468	0	0
74	Trinidad and Tobago	462	1	6
75	Cyprus	460	-1	0
76	Uzbekistan	455	0	0
77	South Africa	453	0	0
78	New Zealand	450	1	5
79	Austria	446	-1	0
80	Mozambique	437	6	36
81	Oman	432	0	9
82	Belarus	431	-2	0
83	Libya	419	-1	0
84	Rwanda	417	-1	0
85	Sudan	412	-1	0
86	Iraq	408	-1	0
87	Peru	397	1	0
88	Congo DR	395	7	10
89	Canada	394	0	0
90	Zambia	393	0	0
91	Angola	392	-4	-7
92	Albania	390	-1	0
93	Moldova	387	-1	0
94	Benin	386	-1	0
94	Iceland	386	-1	0
96	Qatar	376	0	0
97	China PR	369	3	17
98	Sierra Leone	359	12	40
99	Syria	357	-2	0
100	Cuba	355	-2	0
101	Ethiopia	347	-2	-6
102	El Salvador	345	0	6
103	Grenada	344	5	20
104	Tanzania	342	-3	0
105	Cape Verde Islands	335	-2	0
105	Zimbabwe	335	1	6
107	Korea DPR	334	-3	0
108	Fiji	333	-3	0
109	Kenya	327	-2	0
110	Georgia	322	-1	0
111	Guatemala	309	0	6
112	Malawi	302	0	0
113	Estonia	298	2	5
113	Thailand	298	0	0
115	Bermuda	296	-1	0
116	Antigua and Barbuda	293	-1	0
117	Montenegro	284	0	0
118	Kuwait	282	2	0
119	Equatorial Guinea	279	-2	-5
120	Barbados	278	3	0
120	United Arab Emirates	278	2	-2
122	Haiti	276	-3	-7
123	Botswana	273	1	5
124	Namibia	270	-3	-11
125	Armenia	268	-1	0
126	Luxembourg	259	0	0
127	Guyana	255	0	0
127	Jordan	255	0	0
129	Suriname	253	0	0
130	Chad	251	0	0
131	Madagascar	231	3	15
132	New Caledonia	229	-1	0
133	Burundi	224	-1	0
134	Singapore	220	-1	0
135	Swaziland	217	1	3
136	Vietnam	216	-2	0
137	Kazakhstan	214	-1	0
138	Liberia	207	2	17
139	Indonesia	206	-1	-4
140	Vanuatu	201	3	25
141	Nicaragua	195	-2	0
142	Azerbaijan	193	-2	3
143	Hong Kong	183	-1	0
144	Niger	168	1	0
145	Yemen	162	1	-5
146	India	156	1	0
147	Netherlands Antilles	152	2	0
147	Tajikistan	152	-3	-20
149	Maldives	143	9	21
150	Kyrgyzstan	141	-3	-15
150	Malta	141	1	0
150	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	141	1	0
153	Turkmenistan	140	4	16
154	Puerto Rico	139	-1	0
154	St. Kitts and Nevis	139	-1	0
156	Liechtenstein	134	-1	0
157	Mauritania	130	-1	0
158	Myanmar	127	1	6
159	Lebanon	120	-9	-28
160	Eritrea	114	0	0
161	Lesotho	110	2	9
162	Sri Lanka	107	3	10
163	Malaysia	105	-2	0
164	Solomon Islands	100	0	0
165	Faroe Islands	96	1	0
166	Philippines	90	-4	-13
167	Pakistan	88	10	30
168	Chinese Taipei	86	12	34
169	Somalia	82	-2	0
170	Cayman Islands	76	-2	0
171	Mauritius	74	1	5
172	Laos	73	-2	0
173	Nepal	71	-4	-3
174	Mongolia	69	9	26
174	Palestine	69	-3	-2
176	Samoa	64	-2	0
177	Cambodia	63	-2	3
178	Seychelles	62	-5	-6
179	Bangladesh	60	-1	7
179	Belize	60	-4	0
181	Bahamas	53	-3	0
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	51	-1	0
183	Afghanistan	45	1	4
184	Djibouti	40	1	0
184	Dominican Republic	40	1	0
186	Brunei Darussalam	38	-4	-9
186	Guinea-Bissau	38	1	0
188	Guam	34	0	0
189	St. Lucia	32	0	0
189	Tahiti	32	0	0
189	Tonga	32	0	0
192	British Virgin Islands	30	1	0
193	Macau	28	2	10
194	Bhutan	23	-5	-9
195	Aruba	22	-1	0
196	Andorra	18	-1	0
197	Dominica	12	0	0
198	Timor-Leste	9	0	0
199	Comoros	8	0	0
199	US Virgin Islands	8	0	0
201	Central African Republic	4	0	0
202	American Samoa	0	0	0
202	Anguilla	0	0	0
202	Cook Islands	0	0	0
202	Montserrat	0	0	0
202	Papua New Guinea	0	0	0
202	San Marino	0	0	0

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