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Monday, September 21, 2009

2014 FIFA World Cup seeding for CONCACAF teams (21 September 2009)

The preliminary draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup took place on November 25th, 2007 and used the May 2007 FIFA ranking (for CONCACAF).

Assumptions:

- CONCACAF will again have 3.5 spots
- CONCACAF will again use the same qualifying system
- FIFA will use the FIFA ranking to seed the teams

The May 2011 FIFA ranking will include matches played between May 2007 and May 2011. We already have the "0.2" and "0.3" parts (matches played between May 2007 and May 2009) - that's basically 25% of the final ranking and a bit of the "0.5" part (matches played between May 2009 and May 2010). A lot can and will change before May 2011 as there are many matches to be played involving CONCACAF teams: 2009 Gold Cup knockout stages, 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010 Caribbean Championship, 2011 UNCAF Nations Cup and plenty of friendlies.

This is the May 2011 ranking (for CONCACAF only) using matches played up to and including September 20th, 2009 and matches scheduled up to May 2010 (only those on fifa.com).

The "0.5" part is computed this way: points gained / (number of matches played + scheduled).

St. Vincent and the Grenadines replace Belize in the 5th pot.

Rank - Previous rank - Team - Total points
 1  1 USA                            490
 2  2 Mexico                         447
 3  3 Honduras                       368
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 4  4 Canada                         354
 5  5 Costa Rica                     321
 6  6 El Salvador                    234
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 7  7 Panama                         208
 8  8 Jamaica                        206
 9  9 Haiti                          174
10 10 Trinidad and Tobago            152
11 11 Grenada                        115
12 12 Antigua and Barbuda            112
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13 13 Guatemala                       90
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14 14 Cuba                            87
15 15 Bermuda                         80
16 16 Barbados                        70
17 17 Suriname                        63
18 20 St. Kitts and Nevis             56
19 18 Guyana                          53
19 18 Nicaragua                       53
21 21 Netherlands Antilles            50
22 22 Puerto Rico                     48
23 24 St. Vincent and the Grenadines  26
24 23 Cayman Islands                  24
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25 24 Belize                          22
26 26 St. Lucia                       13
26 26 Turks and Caicos Islands        13
28 28 British Virgin Islands          12
29 29 Bahamas                          9
30 30 Aruba                            7
31 31 Dominica                         5
32 32 US Virgin Islands                3
33 33 Anguilla                         0
33 33 Dominican Republic               0
33 33 Montserrat                       0

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 12, 2009 at 2:23 AM

    Hi: Have read your Blog , and your
    work is good ,but can we get some
    Info on who the 4th place team in
    CONCACAF will play , I meant which
    Confederation will rival Concacaf
    during the 2014 Qualifiers? . In 2010
    Qualifiers its was AFC V OCEANIA ETC

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  2. EdgarOctober 12, 2009 at 8:30 AM

    Hi! No, I have no info regarding the 2014 World Cup intercontinental play-offs. First of all, that's because FIFA hasn't announced the spot allocations for the 2014 WC. This will happen in December 2010.

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