FIFA Ranking: July 2009 preview (IV)

June 24th, 2009

June 2009 differences solved. However, the ranking is not updated. The June 29th update will include the correct values for England, Trinidad and Tobago, Greece and Armenia.

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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. Except England - see June 2009 differences.

The final July 2009 preview will be posted on June 29th.

Besides the Confederations Cup matches, there's only one more match before the official June 25th deadline - a Mexico - Venezuela friendly.

This means only 6 teams can change their point totals: Brazil, USA, Spain, South Africa, Mexico and Venezuela. In the ranking table, the value displayed for these teams is the minimum possible value. This means that even if they lose their remaining match(es) their total can't drop.

Maximum values for the 6 teams: Spain (1738), Brazil (max 1689), USA (1078), South Africa (670), Mexico (793), Venezuela (646).

Best movers:

23 - Korea DPR
22 - Moldova
20 - Côte d'Ivoire

Worst movers:

-39 - Sierra Leone
-34 - Gambia
-32 - Bermuda

Best movers in the top 50:

20 - Côte d'Ivoire
19 - Algeria
17 - Gabon

Worst movers in the top 50:

-16 - Turkey
-12 - Bosnia-Herzegovina
-11 - Sweden

Cook Islands move off the bottom of the ranking after taking 4 points from Tonga in two friendly matches.

Côte d'Ivoire - top African team, replacing Cameroon. Egypt drop out of the African top 5, replaced by Gabon - the new third team in Africa.

Costa Rica replace Mexico as CONCACAF's second team. Jamaica up to 5th, replacing Panama.

Uruguay and Paraguay exchange places again, Uruguay taking 3rd place.

Six teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Serbia (13th - 17th in July 2007)
Australia (15th - 27th in February 2009)
Gabon (31st - 45th in January 1996)
Grenada (88th - 102nd in June 2009)
Montenegro (98th - 110th in June 2009)
Antigua and Barbuda (105th - 109th in October 2006)

Serbia and Australia can be overtaken by the USA. Gabon can be overtaken by Mexico.

Côte d'Ivoire will revisit their highest ever ranking - 18th, first achieved in August 2006.

The British Virgin Islands will go back to their worst ever ranking - 193rd, first achieved January 2008.

Fourteen teams will have their worst ever ranking:

Mexico (35th - 32nd in August 2008)
Sweden (42nd - 33rd in April 2009)
Congo DR (102nd - 95th in June 2008)
China PR (108th - 104th in January 2009)
Zimbabwe (115th - 106th in April 2009)
United Arab Emirates (123rd - 122nd in April 2009)
Mauritius (176th - 174th in April 2008)
St. Lucia (191st - 189th in April 2009)
Tahiti (191st - 190th in January 2009)
Andorra (197th - 196th in May 2009)
Dominica (198th - 197th in April 2009)
Central African Republic (202nd - 201st in April 2009)
Papua New Guinea (203rd - 202nd in April 2009)
San Marino (203rd - 202nd in April 2009)

Mexico can still avoid this with a win against Venezuela.

Teams in red will improve their total if they make at least a point in their remaining matches.

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

1	Spain	1519	0	-242
2	Brazil	1500	3	212
3	Netherlands	1379	-1	-63
4	Italy	1229	0	-63
5	Germany	1207	-2	-171
6	England	1165	0	-60
7	Russia	1161	2	-6
8	Argentina	1091	-1	-112
9	France	1082	1	15
10	Croatia	1031	-2	-169
11	Greece	1003	6	81
12	Switzerland	930	4	-1
13	Serbia	925	7	55
14	Denmark	909	10	73
15	Australia	886	14	107
16	USA	885	-2	-62
17	Portugal	879	-6	-125
18	Côte d'Ivoire	874	20	129
19	Ukraine	869	0	-22
20	Uruguay	860	-3	-62
21	Czech Republic	850	-6	-93
22	Paraguay	846	-9	-115
23	Bulgaria	840	0	2
24	Scotland	837	-2	-3
25	Israel	823	0	-4
26	Romania	814	2	24
27	Chile	811	10	65
28	Turkey	809	-16	-155
29	Cameroon	803	-8	-52
30	Costa Rica	801	11	107
31	Gabon	789	17	173
32	Northern Ireland	785	-5	-35
33	Nigeria	773	-3	3
34	Ghana	772	2	22
35	Mexico	768	-9	-54
36	Ecuador	760	8	74
37	Honduras	758	-2	-3
37	Republic of Ireland	758	-3	-4
39	Egypt	753	1	34
40	Japan	723	-9	-43
41	Poland	706	-2	-16
42	Sweden	702	-11	-64
43	Slovakia	688	-1	-5
44	Hungary	681	-1	-6
45	Bosnia-Herzegovina	680	-12	-83
46	Colombia	675	-1	-3
47	Algeria	659	19	169
48	Korea Republic	634	-2	-20
49	Tunisia	617	2	20
50	Venezuela	610	6	42
51	Norway	606	-4	-32
52	Burkina Faso	598	-2	-10
53	Finland	592	-4	-22
54	FYR Macedonia	590	10	75
55	Morocco	569	0	-2
56	Latvia	562	3	10
57	Guinea	561	-4	-25
58	Iran	559	-6	-28
59	Mali	551	-5	-32
60	Lithuania	544	0	0
61	Saudi Arabia	542	-5	-26
62	Slovenia	539	-1	3
63	Belgium	532	0	14
64	Bolivia	521	-6	-44
65	Jamaica	520	11	64
66	Panama	501	-5	-35
67	Bahrain	496	3	23
68	Austria	493	2	20
68	Wales	493	6	25
70	South Africa	478	2	7
71	Togo	468	-3	-7
72	Trinidad and Tobago	465	0	-6
73	Cyprus	445	6	4
74	Belarus	443	7	11
75	Libya	438	-6	-36
75	Uganda	438	-8	-42
77	Zambia	419	13	15
78	Oman	413	2	-27
79	Uzbekistan	402	-1	-41
80	Benin	399	11	-3
80	Senegal	399	-5	-64
82	Mozambique	394	5	-18
83	Korea DPR	393	23	55
84	Moldova	388	22	50
85	Cuba	383	14	30
86	Qatar	380	8	-5
87	Peru	379	2	-28
88	Congo	378	-2	-41
88	Grenada	378	14	34
90	El Salvador	375	10	23
91	Sudan	367	-3	-41
92	Canada	358	-9	-72
93	Iceland	357	-1	-43
94	Iraq	355	-17	-95
95	Albania	347	-3	-53
96	Syria	345	8	4
97	Tanzania	344	12	12
98	Montenegro	339	12	8
99	Gambia	337	-34	-177
100	New Zealand	336	-18	-95
101	Fiji	333	7	0
102	Angola	330	-5	-44
102	Congo DR	330	-18	-93
104	Georgia	326	1	-13
105	Antigua and Barbuda	325	9	29
105	Kenya	325	-3	-19
107	Barbados	319	13	42
108	China PR	318	-10	-45
109	Guatemala	312	3	1
109	Malawi	312	2	-11
111	Suriname	309	12	43
112	Estonia	307	1	10
113	Rwanda	298	-17	-77
114	Cape Verde Islands	296	-20	-89
115	Zimbabwe	295	-14	-51
116	Namibia	294	12	45
117	Thailand	290	-1	0
118	Kuwait	287	-1	-2
119	Luxembourg	284	1	7
120	Haiti	257	4	-7
121	Guyana	248	6	-7
122	Jordan	244	4	-15
123	United Arab Emirates	243	-1	-25
124	Sierra Leone	241	-39	-180
125	Chad	233	4	-13
126	Singapore	228	8	2
127	Madagascar	226	3	-15
128	Armenia	222	3	-17
129	Burundi	220	10	12
130	Equatorial Guinea	219	-5	-42
131	Vietnam	215	4	-9
132	Indonesia	206	6	-3
133	Kazakhstan	204	-1	-26
134	Botswana	203	-16	-75
135	Nicaragua	195	7	0
136	Niger	187	8	16
137	Hong Kong	186	6	0
138	Ethiopia	177	-20	-101
139	Azerbaijan	175	1	-26
140	Netherlands Antilles	169	5	9
141	Vanuatu	163	-1	-38
142	Liberia	161	-6	-60
142	Swaziland	161	-5	-57
144	Yemen	157	2	0
145	St. Kitts and Nevis	151	6	12
146	Bermuda	150	-32	-146
147	India	148	0	-7
148	Tajikistan	147	0	0
149	New Caledonia	142	-16	-87
150	Malta	140	0	0
151	Lebanon	138	6	18
152	Turkmenistan	137	2	7
153	Liechtenstein	134	3	9
154	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	133	-1	-3
155	Myanmar	129	0	0
156	Maldives	117	-7	-25
157	Malaysia	112	2	3
158	Philippines	108	2	0
159	Eritrea	106	-2	-14
160	Kyrgyzstan	105	2	0
161	Lesotho	103	3	3
162	Sri Lanka	101	-1	-6
163	Solomon Islands	100	1	0
164	Mauritania	99	-1	-5
165	Faroe Islands	96	1	0
166	Puerto Rico	87	-15	-52
167	Pakistan	85	0	-3
168	Somalia	82	0	0
169	Bangladesh	80	2	7
170	Seychelles	77	10	16
171	Cayman Islands	76	-2	0
172	Laos	73	-1	0
173	Nepal	71	-3	-4
174	Chinese Taipei	70	-3	-3
175	Palestine	69	0	0
176	Cambodia	64	3	1
176	Mauritius	64	-2	-6
176	Samoa	64	1	0
179	Mongolia	61	-3	-7
180	Belize	57	-3	-7
181	Bahamas	53	0	0
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	51	0	0
183	Brunei Darussalam	46	0	0
184	Dominican Republic	40	2	0
184	Tonga	40	5	8
186	Guinea-Bissau	38	1	0
187	Afghanistan	36	-3	-8
188	Cook Islands	34	14	34
188	Guam	34	0	0
190	Djibouti	33	-5	-8
191	St. Lucia	32	-2	0
191	Tahiti	32	-2	0
193	British Virgin Islands	30	-1	0
194	Macau	28	0	0
195	Aruba	22	0	0
196	Bhutan	17	-4	-13
197	Andorra	16	-1	-1
198	Dominica	12	-1	0
199	Timor-Leste	9	-1	0
200	Comoros	8	-1	0
200	US Virgin Islands	8	-1	0
202	Central African Republic	4	-1	0
203	American Samoa	0	-1	0
203	Anguilla	0	-1	0
203	Montserrat	0	-1	0
203	Papua New Guinea	0	-1	0
203	San Marino	0	-1	0

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