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Monday, October 12, 2009

2014 FIFA World Cup seeding for CONCACAF teams (12 October 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: 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 October 11th, 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).

Costa Rica overtake Canada to take 4th place.

Rank - Previous rank - Team - Total points
 1  1 USA                            546
 2  2 Mexico                         504
 3  3 Honduras                       395
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 4  5 Costa Rica                     382
 5  4 Canada                         354
 6  6 El Salvador                    255
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 7  7 Panama                         208
 8  8 Jamaica                        206
 9  9 Haiti                          174
10 10 Trinidad and Tobago            163
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 18 St. Kitts and Nevis             56
19 19 Guyana                          53
19 19 Nicaragua                       53
21 21 Netherlands Antilles            50
22 22 Puerto Rico                     48
23 23 St. Vincent and the Grenadines  26
24 24 Cayman Islands                  24
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25 25 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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3 comments:

  1. ForfantoneOctober 13, 2009 at 11:03 PM

    10/10/2010 the country of Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist and two new countries Sint Maarten and Curaçao will emerge. Sint Maarten is a CONCACAF member but is not a FIFA member yet. Curaçao seems to have football federation but never played any matches. It will be interesting to follow the development if the Netherlands Antilles team will disappear and Sint Maarten and/or Curaçao could be new teams in CONCACAF

    http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/m118/teamm118.html

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  2. John MillsNovember 15, 2009 at 1:58 AM

    Intercontinental Playoff for 2014 may
    involve 3 Continents instead of 4 .hence a Fixture similar to 1994 world cup qualifying maybe adopted . This is because Oceania is likely to join Asia(AFC). Therefore Concacaf 1/2 place maybe reduce to a 1/4 like
    in 1994 Playoffs .

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  3. EdgarNovember 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM

    We'll see. The confederation allocation and play-off won't be decided until December 2010.

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