FIFA Ranking: October 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.

I'm pretty sure FIFA will include all matches up to October 14th.

Portugal return to the top 10, with Russia going the other way.

Best movers:

41 - Faroe Islands
25 - Armenia
23 - Haiti

Worst movers:

-38 - Libya
-31 - Sierra Leone
-28 - Congo and Niger

Best movers in the top 50:

18 - Colombia
15 - Algeria and Cameroon
12 - Slovakia

Worst movers in the top 50:

-20 - Poland
-16 - Scotland
-12 - Turkey

Cameroon take 1st spot in Africa from Côte d'Ivoire, with Algeria taking 4th place. Algeria are now 2nd in the Arab World, one place behind Egypt and could get 1st place with a good result in Cairo next month.

Honduras - 3rd in CONCACAF at the expense of Costa Rica. Trinidad and Tobago drop from the top 5, replaced by Canada.

Russia out of the UEFA top 5, replaced by England.

Seven teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Algeria (29th - 30th in September 1993)
Latvia (47th - 51st in December 2003)
Benin (66th - 78th in September 2009)
Montenegro (75th - 89th in September 2009)
Barbados (92nd - 93rd in June 2000)
Philippines (155th - 157th in November 2008)
Mongolia (172nd - 173rd in July 2007)

Two teams will return to their worst ever ranking:

Mauritius (183rd - first achieved in August 2009)
British Virgin Islands (193rd - first achieved in January 2008)

Seven teams will have their worst ever ranking:

Romania (36th - 35th in August 2004)
Morocco (63rd - 57th in September 2009)
Zambia (96th - 92nd in February 2009)
Zimbabwe (131st - 120th in August 2009)
Liberia (160th - 153rd in October 2008)
Tahiti (194th - 191st in July 2009)
Andorra (202nd - 196th in May 2009)


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

1	Brazil	1632	0	28
2	Spain	1629	0	41
3	Netherlands	1340	0	-36
4	Italy	1215	0	29
5	Germany	1161	-1	-25
6	Argentina	1103	2	-10
7	England	1101	0	-26
8	Croatia	1087	1	-14
9	France	1049	1	9
10	Portugal	1042	7	162
11	USA	1025	0	51
12	Russia	982	-6	-147
13	Switzerland	961	2	63
14	Cameroon	949	15	130
15	Czech Republic	928	3	58
16	Greece	921	-4	-50
17	Chile	909	4	63
18	Mexico	904	6	69
19	Côte d'Ivoire	903	1	51
20	Serbia	892	-7	-24
21	Paraguay	879	2	37
22	Ukraine	857	3	28
23	Bulgaria	854	-4	-6
24	Australia	848	-10	-59
25	Uruguay	838	3	18
26	Israel	833	-4	-11
27	Denmark	830	-11	-62
28	Egypt	798	4	12
29	Algeria	783	15	76
30	Colombia	775	18	118
31	Northern Ireland	774	0	-21
32	Nigeria	763	2	-10
33	Slovakia	756	12	69
34	Republic of Ireland	755	4	12
35	Honduras	754	7	42
36	Romania	752	-10	-75
37	Norway	751	6	42
38	Ghana	746	-6	-40
39	Turkey	738	-12	-88
40	Japan	735	0	1
41	Sweden	728	0	5
42	Bosnia-Herzegovina	721	4	39
43	Costa Rica	707	-4	-28
44	Ecuador	697	-8	-52
45	Gabon	691	-10	-68
46	Scotland	687	-16	-117
47	Latvia	683	11	128
48	Korea Republic	671	1	30
49	Slovenia	666	5	90
50	Hungary	645	-3	-24
51	Mali	632	2	39
51	Venezuela	632	0	28
53	Canada	631	13	127
54	Tunisia	628	-4	14
55	Burkina Faso	616	-3	14
56	Poland	609	-20	-140
57	Finland	606	4	71
58	Austria	524	12	51
59	Bolivia	522	0	-25
59	Lithuania	522	3	-9
61	Bahrain	519	3	13
61	Iran	519	-1	-22
63	Morocco	511	-6	-49
64	Saudi Arabia	501	1	-4
65	Cyprus	489	11	60
66	Benin	479	12	66
67	FYR Macedonia	476	-11	-94
68	Belgium	474	0	-5
69	Jamaica	470	0	-7
70	Panama	464	5	33
71	Guinea	461	-16	-113
72	Trinidad and Tobago	459	-9	-58
73	Belarus	444	4	24
74	Peru	439	17	76
75	Montenegro	436	14	56
76	Cuba	432	11	39
77	Uganda	428	-5	-20
78	Wales	419	-11	-62
79	Oman	417	-5	-15
80	Togo	403	-9	-51
80	Uzbekistan	403	5	5
82	El Salvador	397	3	-1
83	Mozambique	383	1	-16
83	New Zealand	383	17	47
85	South Africa	381	-12	-64
86	Haiti	378	23	74
87	Iceland	372	9	27
88	Moldova	370	0	-20
89	Senegal	368	-9	-42
90	Malawi	363	15	51
91	Korea DPR	359	-1	-20
92	Barbados	355	11	30
93	Iraq	349	5	9
94	Qatar	347	-11	-53
95	Syria	344	0	-6
96	Zambia	342	-15	-67
97	Albania	334	-4	-26
98	Angola	332	-6	-29
99	Tanzania	328	-5	-30
100	Armenia	323	25	92
101	Cape Verde Islands	316	11	20
102	China PR	312	5	5
103	Kenya	304	1	-13
104	Estonia	303	10	16
104	Grenada	303	4	-2
106	Antigua and Barbuda	300	0	-11
107	Congo	297	-28	-115
108	Fiji	291	-6	-39
109	Kuwait	283	1	-16
110	Thailand	280	5	-6
111	Namibia	271	-10	-60
112	Congo DR	259	6	-14
113	Sudan	254	-17	-91
114	Rwanda	247	3	-32
115	Suriname	242	4	-30
115	United Arab Emirates	242	8	4
117	Georgia	234	-5	-62
117	Guyana	234	5	-6
119	Singapore	228	8	5
120	Libya	225	-38	-182
121	Kazakhstan	223	15	42
122	Faroe Islands	218	41	122
123	Gambia	217	-24	-120
124	Botswana	214	8	12
124	Burundi	214	1	-17
126	Azerbaijan	212	13	39
127	Hong Kong	207	1	-14
128	Jordan	203	1	-16
129	Indonesia	201	4	0
130	Guatemala	200	-19	-97
131	Zimbabwe	196	-11	-63
132	Ethiopia	182	4	1
133	Luxembourg	177	-17	-105
134	Vietnam	172	12	23
135	Nicaragua	165	6	0
136	Equatorial Guinea	163	-7	-56
137	Kyrgyzstan	161	6	0
138	India	160	11	26
139	Yemen	158	3	-5
140	Myanmar	157	5	7
141	New Caledonia	148	-7	-51
142	Turkmenistan	145	5	-1
143	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	140	5	1
144	Liechtenstein	139	7	14
145	Lebanon	136	5	4
146	Malta	132	-6	-34
147	Chad	130	-23	-103
148	Swaziland	129	8	14
149	Bermuda	128	5	9
149	Malaysia	128	3	5
149	Maldives	128	6	11
152	Sierra Leone	117	-31	-124
153	Eritrea	115	4	1
154	Madagascar	112	-23	-96
155	Philippines	108	3	0
156	Lesotho	106	4	5
157	St. Kitts and Nevis	105	-5	-18
158	Sri Lanka	103	1	0
159	Vanuatu	99	-21	-78
160	Liberia	98	-17	-63
161	Chinese Taipei	88	5	2
162	Puerto Rico	87	3	0
163	Netherlands Antilles	85	1	-3
163	Niger	85	-28	-105
165	Bangladesh	83	2	-2
166	Somalia	82	3	0
167	Pakistan	79	1	-5
168	Tajikistan	76	4	11
169	Mauritania	70	-8	-29
170	Laos	69	0	0
171	Cambodia	68	0	1
172	Mongolia	61	2	0
173	Nepal	60	2	0
173	Solomon Islands	60	-11	-37
175	Belize	57	1	0
176	Palestine	53	-3	-9
177	Bahamas	47	0	-6
178	Brunei Darussalam	46	2	0
179	Turks and Caicos Islands	45	0	-6
180	Cayman Islands	44	1	0
180	Seychelles	44	-2	-8
182	Dominican Republic	41	1	1
183	Guinea-Bissau	38	1	0
183	Mauritius	38	-1	-5
183	Samoa	38	1	0
186	Cook Islands	34	0	0
186	Djibouti	34	2	1
186	Guam	34	0	0
189	Afghanistan	32	2	2
189	St. Lucia	32	0	0
191	Macau	28	2	0
191	Tonga	28	2	0
193	British Virgin Islands	25	-2	-5
194	Tahiti	19	-5	-13
195	Bhutan	17	0	0
196	Dominica	12	1	0
197	Aruba	11	1	0
198	Timor-Leste	9	1	0
199	Comoros	8	1	0
199	US Virgin Islands	8	1	0
201	Central African Republic	4	1	0
202	Andorra	2	-7	-15
203	American Samoa	0	0	0
203	Anguilla	0	0	0
203	Montserrat	0	0	0
203	Papua New Guinea	0	0	0
203	San Marino	0	0	0

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