FIFA Ranking: July 2010 preview (VI)

Included: matches up to and including July 3rd, 2010.

Next and final update: July 12th, 2010.

Six matches left: two continental qualifiers (Botswana - Chad and Togo - Malawi) and four World Cup matches (two semifinals, 3rd place match and final).

As you perhaps know, the World Cup semifinalists are Uruguay, Netherlands, Germany and Spain.

In the ranking table, the value displayed for these 8 teams is the minimum possible value. This means that even if they lose, their total can't drop.

This is how the points totals could change for the African teams:

Malawi (L: 405, D: 425, W: 466)
Togo (L: 394, D: 421, W: 475)
Botswana (L: 290, D: 304, W: 331)
Chad (L: 116, D: 221, W: 292)

For the World Cup teams it's a bit more complex. Take a look at the table below. Brazil and Argentina included because their ranking (not the point totals) could change.

Team - Minimum points - Maximum points - Worst ranking - Best ranking

Spain	1623	1883	2	1
Brazil	1536	1536	4	2
Netherlands	1531	1799	4	1
Germany	1335	1614	5	2
Argentina	1289	1289	6	5
Uruguay	1152	1444	6	4

Best movers:

24 - New Zealand
21 - Trinidad and Tobago
19 - Chad

Worst movers:

-39 - Haiti
-36 - Canada
-25 - Bermuda

Best movers in the top 50:

15 - Paraguay and Peru
13 - Japan
11 - Belgium

Worst movers in the top 50:

-21 - Cameroon
-14 - Ecuador and Romania
-12 - France

Four teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Uruguay (6th - 14th in May 1994)
Egypt (9th - 10th in January 2010)
Slovenia (19th - 23rd in April 2010)
Burkina Faso (45th - 48th in May 2010)

Uruguay can still improve and climb as high as 4th. Netherlands could also improve their best ever ranking if they climb to the top spot.

Three teams will return to their best ever ranking:

Spain (1st - first achieved in July 2008)
Serbia (13th - first achieved in September 2009)
Venezuela (47th - first achieved in January 2010)

Spain could remain 2nd.

Four teams will have their worst ever ranking:

Romania (42nd - 38th in January 2010)
Tunisia (65th - 56th in March 2008)
Morocco (82nd - 80th in February 2010)
Congo DR (124th - 121st in May 2010)

Ghana climb from 6th to 2nd in Africa and replace Cameroon in the top 5 as Les Lions Indomptables crash from 2nd to 7th. Côte d'Ivoire climb to 3rd, replacing Nigeria on the podium.

Uruguay could take 2nd place in CONMEBOL from Argentina.

Italy out of the European top 5, replaced by England. Portugal drop from 2nd to 5th.

July 2010 rank - Team - July 2010 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points

1	Spain	1623	1	58
2	Brazil	1536	-1	-75
3	Netherlands	1531	1	300
4	Germany	1335	2	253
5	Argentina	1289	2	213
6	Uruguay	1152	10	253
7	England	1125	1	57
8	Portugal	1062	-5	-187
9	Egypt	1052	3	85
10	Chile	988	8	100
11	Italy	982	-6	-202
12	Greece	975	1	11
13	Serbia	969	2	22
13	USA	969	1	12
15	Croatia	968	-5	-73
16	Paraguay	961	15	141
17	Russia	956	-6	-59
18	Switzerland	940	6	74
19	Slovenia	917	6	57
20	Australia	911	0	25
21	France	890	-12	-154
22	Norway	878	0	-4
23	Ghana	874	9	74
24	Mexico	872	-7	-23
25	Ukraine	870	-2	-5
26	Côte d'Ivoire	843	1	-13
27	Slovakia	829	7	52
28	Turkey	810	1	-20
29	Denmark	785	7	18
30	Nigeria	773	-9	-110
31	Czech Republic	769	2	-24
32	Japan	768	13	86
33	Algeria	759	-3	-62
34	Gabon	755	8	55
35	Sweden	747	2	-14
36	Republic of Ireland	734	5	25
37	Israel	733	-11	-124
38	Peru	726	15	148
39	Colombia	725	-4	-51
40	Cameroon	710	-21	-177
41	Scotland	699	2	0
42	Romania	697	-14	-156
43	Bulgaria	672	-4	-39
44	Korea Republic	660	3	28
45	Burkina Faso	646	3	35
46	Honduras	644	-8	-90
47	Venezuela	592	2	-16
48	Belgium	589	11	48
49	Costa Rica	584	-9	-126
50	Latvia	579	-4	-73
51	Finland	576	1	-8
52	Lithuania	571	-3	-37
53	Bolivia	570	12	71
54	New Zealand	557	24	147
55	Mali	548	-1	-27
56	Poland	547	2	-14
57	Bosnia-Herzegovina	546	-6	-58
58	Ecuador	545	-14	-149
59	Northern Ireland	540	-3	-26
60	Austria	536	8	57
61	Benin	535	-1	4
62	Hungary	534	-5	-31
63	Cyprus	523	4	37
64	Iran	522	-3	1
65	Tunisia	519	-10	-55
66	FYR Macedonia	504	-5	-17
66	South Africa	504	17	112
68	Saudi Arabia	471	-2	-27
69	Bahrain	460	0	-15
70	Uganda	457	3	17
71	Albania	455	8	49
72	Montenegro	448	-8	-52
73	Zambia	446	-2	-10
74	Malawi	405	12	23
74	Trinidad and Tobago	405	21	52
76	Belarus	403	6	6
77	Togo	394	-1	-24
78	China PR	393	6	6
79	Iceland	385	11	18
80	Mozambique	377	5	-6
81	Oman	374	10	12
82	Morocco	371	-12	-92
83	Jamaica	368	-2	-31
84	Wales	366	-7	-49
85	Kuwait	365	12	15
86	Angola	356	2	-23
87	Uzbekistan	352	7	-2
88	United Arab Emirates	351	13	41
89	Moldova	350	0	-28
90	El Salvador	343	-18	-109
91	Senegal	338	-16	-84
92	Syria	334	6	-9
93	Panama	323	-19	-111
94	Estonia	321	5	1
95	Armenia	318	5	7
95	Libya	318	7	9
97	Jordan	301	7	1
98	Qatar	300	-2	-51
99	Canada	297	-36	-219
100	Botswana	290	16	54
101	Guinea	285	-14	-96
101	Gambia	285	-8	-76
103	Korea DPR	284	2	-1
104	Iraq	276	-24	-129
105	Thailand	273	1	-3
106	Azerbaijan	267	3	8
107	Congo	263	-4	-45
108	Cape Verde Islands	261	6	20
109	Yemen	248	3	0
110	Zimbabwe	238	0	-20
111	Georgia	237	9	20
112	Tanzania	235	-4	-26
113	Rwanda	234	-6	-35
114	Cuba	215	12	21
115	Kenya	210	-2	-33
116	Luxembourg	209	11	16
117	Faroe Islands	206	8	10
118	Guatemala	204	-4	-37
119	Namibia	203	-8	-48
119	Guyana	203	3	-2
121	Sudan	198	-3	-21
121	Singapore	198	6	5
123	Suriname	187	14	34
124	Chad	185	19	57
124	Congo DR	185	-3	-30
126	Kazakhstan	184	3	1
127	Vietnam	179	-10	-52
128	Barbados	174	7	19
129	Antigua and Barbuda	168	-10	-50
130	Haiti	167	-39	-195
130	Fiji	167	2	0
132	India	160	1	-3
133	Grenada	159	-9	-39
134	Swaziland	155	-3	-16
135	Hong Kong	152	5	2
136	Turkmenistan	150	3	-1
137	Tajikistan	144	-2	-11
138	Indonesia	141	-1	-12
139	Sierra Leone	130	-9	-51
140	Liechtenstein	126	9	9
141	Burundi	125	3	-2
142	Malaysia	124	4	1
143	Myanmar	122	4	0
144	Madagascar	121	4	0
145	Maldives	117	-3	-12
146	Ethiopia	114	-23	-86
147	St. Kitts and Nevis	111	4	-2
148	Equatorial Guinea	110	-7	-32
148	Niger	110	14	18
150	Netherlands Antilles	108	4	5
151	Lebanon	106	9	8
152	Malta	105	5	5
153	Bangladesh	104	4	4
154	Lesotho	101	-2	-8
155	Sri Lanka	96	4	-3
156	Liberia	94	-6	-20
156	Nepal	94	5	-2
158	Eritrea	92	-3	-9
159	Bermuda	90	-25	-70
160	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	87	3	-4
161	Nicaragua	86	-6	-15
162	New Caledonia	82	-17	-44
163	Vanuatu	75	-10	-33
163	Pakistan	75	2	-3
165	Kyrgyzstan	74	3	0
166	Chinese Taipei	69	1	-6
167	Philippines	67	2	0
168	Mauritania	62	-4	-19
169	Solomon Islands	60	1	0
170	Puerto Rico	52	-4	-24
171	Palestine	48	2	9
172	Comoros	43	-1	0
173	Cayman Islands	39	0	0
173	Laos	39	0	0
173	Somalia	39	0	0
176	Samoa	38	1	0
177	Mauritius	37	-5	-3
177	Seychelles	37	1	0
179	Bahamas	34	2	0
180	Dominica	33	3	0
180	Cambodia	33	5	3
182	Belize	32	-3	-4
182	Mongolia	32	-3	-4
182	Turks and Caicos Islands	32	2	0
185	Dominican Republic	26	2	0
186	Tonga	23	0	-5
187	Brunei Darussalam	21	2	0
188	Guinea-Bissau	19	3	0
188	St. Lucia	19	3	0
188	Tahiti	19	3	0
191	Djibouti	18	-3	-5
191	British Virgin Islands	18	3	0
193	Cook Islands	17	-12	-17
193	Afghanistan	17	-4	-4
193	Guam	17	2	0
196	Macau	12	1	-2
197	Aruba	11	1	0
198	Bhutan	9	-2	-6
199	US Virgin Islands	5	0	0
200	Timor-Leste	4	0	0
201	Andorra	2	0	0
202	American Samoa	0	0	0
202	Anguilla	0	0	0
202	Central African Republic	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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