FIFA Ranking: October 2010 final preview (old)

Included: matches up to and including October 13th, the official match deadline. FIFA might include more matches, but not later than Sunday. I didn't include Italy - Serbia nor did I award a 3 - 0 win for the Italians.

I hope everything is ok - I had to move my database and program to a different computer.

Best movers

60 - Central African Republic
53 - Niger
45 - Armenia

Worst movers

-52 - Bolivia
-47 - Cyprus
-25 - Liberia

Best movers in the top 50:

34 - Guinea
15 - Russia and Belarus
14 - Montenegro

Worst movers in the top 50:

-52 - Bolivia
-47 - Cyprus
-18 - Israel

Gabon out of the top 5, replaced by Algeria - now 4th. Nigeria drop to 5th.

Panama replace Costa Rica as 4th in CONCACAF.

Nine teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Slovenia (15th - 19th in July 2010)
Montenegro (26th - 40th in September 2010)
Burkina Faso (37th - 39th in September 2010)
Belarus (40th - 55th in September 2010)
Armenia (60th - 78th in April 2008)
Botswana (79th - 82nd in September 2010)
Azerbaijan (91st - 97th in June 1999)
Central African Republic (112th - 153rd in August 1993)
Philippines (152nd - 155th in October 2009)

Italy will return to their worst ever ranking - 16th - first achieved in May 1994. That will change however if FIFA award them the qualifier against Serbia and use it for the October ranking calculation.

Seven teams will have their worst ever ranking:

Romania (50th - 46th in September 2010)
Poland (69th - 66th in September 2010)
Finland (85th - 79th in December 1996)
Trinidad and Tobago (105th - 102nd in July 2008)
Malta (159th - 158th in March 2010)
Liberia (164th - 161st in December 2009)
Seychelles (196th - 195th in July 2002)

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

1	Spain	1880	0	56
2	Netherlands	1688	0	25
3	Brazil	1493	1	13
4	Germany	1492	-1	2
5	Argentina	1310	0	-41
6	England	1197	0	6
7	Uruguay	1167	0	-15
8	Portugal	1113	0	64
9	Croatia	1099	2	101
10	Russia	1063	15	195
11	Greece	1035	1	62
12	Egypt	1034	-3	0
13	Norway	989	1	31
14	Chile	932	-4	-72
15	Slovenia	922	4	25
16	Italy	904	-3	-61
17	Ghana	891	3	2
18	France	885	9	50
19	Côte d'Ivoire	871	4	-6
20	Australia	869	4	-5
21	Serbia	865	-6	-80
22	Slovakia	860	-6	-59
23	Paraguay	840	-6	-64
24	Switzerland	838	-3	-44
24	USA	838	-6	-61
26	Montenegro	827	14	143
27	Denmark	801	2	20
28	Turkey	789	-7	-93
29	Mexico	786	-1	-9
30	Japan	778	0	5
31	Czech Republic	735	6	18
32	Ukraine	727	-6	-111
33	Republic of Ireland	711	0	-34
34	Algeria	709	1	-23
35	Nigeria	708	-1	-25
36	Sweden	702	-4	-58
37	Burkina Faso	681	2	-22
38	Cameroon	676	-1	-41
39	Gabon	662	-8	-106
40	Belarus	638	15	84
40	Northern Ireland	638	5	0
42	Korea Republic	637	2	-3
43	Bulgaria	605	11	49
44	Hungary	592	7	25
45	Tunisia	586	11	35
46	Colombia	584	-6	-100
47	Guinea	581	34	187
48	Austria	580	13	52
49	Lithuania	575	-7	-100
50	Romania	568	-4	-63
51	New Zealand	549	-2	-56
52	South Africa	545	6	0
53	Honduras	540	-1	-25
54	Israel	535	-18	-186
55	Bosnia-Herzegovina	534	4	-10
56	Peru	532	-8	-81
57	Venezuela	525	3	-6
58	Panama	513	12	26
58	Scotland	513	-11	-104
60	Armenia	509	45	236
61	Belgium	503	1	-23
62	Iran	501	-5	-45
63	Uganda	495	0	-28
64	Mali	493	1	-25
65	Costa Rica	490	-12	-71
66	Albania	485	1	-17
67	Ecuador	484	5	7
68	Benin	482	1	-7
69	Poland	478	-3	-26
70	FYR Macedonia	460	1	-19
71	Saudi Arabia	452	2	-8
72	Senegal	446	7	41
73	Latvia	444	-5	-50
74	Estonia	433	11	58
75	Zambia	428	-1	-4
76	Georgia	426	13	69
77	Morocco	425	18	95
78	Moldova	418	2	20
79	Botswana	413	3	25
80	Jamaica	412	-4	-13
81	Libya	410	26	148
82	Canada	408	6	48
82	Cape Verde Islands	408	-5	-14
84	Malawi	403	-6	-12
85	Finland	402	-21	-119
86	Bahrain	400	-11	-31
87	Togo	381	0	10
88	China PR	379	-6	-9
89	Mozambique	373	-3	-1
90	Cyprus	370	-47	-273
91	Azerbaijan	358	11	71
92	Angola	356	1	14
93	Sudan	347	8	52
94	Iraq	345	13	83
95	Jordan	344	4	26
96	Oman	339	-4	-5
97	Uzbekistan	334	0	7
98	Wales	329	-14	-53
99	Kuwait	327	-3	-2
100	United Arab Emirates	326	-10	-23
101	Niger	325	53	234
102	Bolivia	324	-52	-267
103	Gambia	322	-12	-23
104	Syria	308	-10	-24
105	Trinidad and Tobago	304	-8	-23
106	Qatar	288	-2	10
107	Barbados	286	14	106
108	Thailand	284	-6	-3
109	Korea DPR	269	-3	-1
110	Iceland	266	-10	-42
111	Guyana	264	9	82
112	Central African Republic	263	60	213
113	El Salvador	246	-3	-7
114	Congo	244	3	42
114	Kenya	244	0	29
116	Yemen	228	-9	-34
117	Rwanda	227	-5	1
118	Zimbabwe	226	0	32
119	Tanzania	225	-8	-14
120	Cuba	218	-7	0
121	Guatemala	214	-6	0
121	Sierra Leone	214	11	70
123	Congo DR	196	9	52
124	Suriname	195	13	62
125	Grenada	194	3	34
125	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	194	28	101
127	Singapore	192	-8	3
128	Haiti	187	-5	12
129	Puerto Rico	184	41	132
130	Antigua and Barbuda	183	-7	8
130	St. Kitts and Nevis	183	21	89
132	Faroe Islands	178	6	46
133	Ethiopia	177	2	41
134	Luxembourg	172	-4	19
135	Burundi	171	-13	-8
136	Kazakhstan	165	-10	-6
137	Hong Kong	164	-1	29
137	Vietnam	164	-12	-10
139	Namibia	162	-23	-50
140	Indonesia	161	-9	10
141	Turkmenistan	156	-12	2
142	Fiji	154	-15	-7
143	India	149	17	67
144	Myanmar	130	-3	4
145	Guinea-Bissau	127	-5	0
146	Chad	126	-12	-16
147	Maldives	124	-4	7
148	Dominica	116	30	83
148	Malaysia	116	-4	5
150	Tajikistan	112	-5	4
151	Bangladesh	111	-6	3
152	Philippines	107	13	40
153	Sri Lanka	104	-5	0
154	New Caledonia	102	-9	-6
154	Swaziland	102	-12	-20
156	Chinese Taipei	97	14	45
156	Lebanon	97	-5	3
158	Cayman Islands	92	23	66
159	Madagascar	90	-5	-1
159	Malta	90	-9	-6
161	Liechtenstein	87	-12	-15
162	Nicaragua	86	-4	0
163	Nepal	83	-7	-5
164	Liberia	82	-25	-49
165	Eritrea	81	-4	1
165	Lesotho	81	-8	-6
167	Equatorial Guinea	79	-3	6
168	Pakistan	73	-6	-2
169	Netherlands Antilles	63	-3	0
169	Vanuatu	63	-3	0
171	Bermuda	62	-8	-12
172	Kyrgyzstan	60	-13	-23
173	Belize	54	-5	0
174	British Virgin Islands	41	14	23
174	Laos	41	3	4
176	Solomon Islands	40	-1	0
177	Palestine	39	-4	-10
177	Somalia	39	-1	0
179	Mauritania	38	-10	-15
180	Comoros	37	-6	-6
181	Cambodia	34	-3	1
182	Mongolia	32	-2	0
183	Tahiti	31	11	18
184	Samoa	26	-3	0
185	Brunei Darussalam	23	0	2
186	Djibouti	19	2	1
186	Dominican Republic	19	-5	-7
186	St. Lucia	19	0	0
186	Turks and Caicos Islands	19	0	0
190	Cook Islands	17	0	0
190	Guam	17	0	0
190	Tonga	17	0	0
193	Mauritius	16	0	0
194	Bahamas	13	0	0
195	Macau	12	2	0
196	Afghanistan	10	-2	-3
196	Seychelles	10	-12	-12
198	Bhutan	9	0	0
199	Aruba	7	0	0
200	US Virgin Islands	5	0	0
201	Timor-Leste	3	0	-1
202	Andorra	2	0	0
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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