FIFA Women's Ranking using the Men's system

Update: Fixed a slight error in the ranking.
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Big debate on BigSoccer's Women's Soccer forum - one that I never visit :) I was asked to compute the women's ranking using the men's ranking system. As you know, FIFA uses a modified version of the Elo system to compute the women's ranking.

I went back to August 1989 for results and used the release dates used for the men's ranking. I also included the confederation weightings computed using the official (sort of) formula - that was the most time consuming part.

For match importance I used the men's values, with a twist: Olympic final tournaments have the same weight as World Cup final tournaments to mirror the FIFA women's ranking importance of match values.

Two definitions:

Selective ranking = contains only teams active in the last 18 months with permanent (i.e. not provisional) ranking.
Full ranking = all teams.

Both are computed using the men's ranking system.

Only nine teams were in first place from 1993 until now: Norway, China PR, England, Germany, Serbia, Hungary, Korea DPR, Brazil and France.

Germany were on top in 115 releases, followed by Norway who led the rankings on 41 occasions.

Here are the main differences:

Anguilla (104th in the full ranking, 100th in the selective ranking), Niger and Kuwait (148th in the full ranking, 124th in the full ranking) do not appear in the FIFA Women's Ranking.

Top 10 differences for countries with a better selective ranking:

Team - FIFA Women's Ranking - Selective Ranking - Difference

Cuba	99	30	69
Equatorial Guinea	61	12	49
Puerto Rico	107	63	44
Cameroon	66	24	42
Tanzania	123	82	41
Guyana	86	46	40
Namibia	114	76	38
Armenia	108	71	37
Ethiopia	110	74	36
Estonia	74	39	35

Top 10 differences for countries with a better FIFA Women's ranking:

Team - FIFA Women's Ranking - Selective Ranking - Difference

Peru	52	123	-71
Chinese Taipei	36	101	-65
Iran	51	106	-55
Uruguay	69	122	-53
Indonesia	68	117	-49
Kazakhstan	77	112	-35
Chile	44	75	-31
Malaysia	87	118	-31
New Zealand	24	53	-29
Argentina	33	61	-28

Top 50 nations only (in the top 50 in at least one of the rankings)


Top 10 differences for countries with a better selective ranking:

Team - FIFA Women's Ranking - Selective Ranking - Difference

Cuba	99	30	69
Equatorial Guinea	61	12	49
Cameroon	66	24	42
Guyana	86	46	40
Estonia	74	39	35
South Africa	58	34	24
Turkey	65	43	22
Ghana	49	29	20
Ukraine	21	5	16
Austria	40	25	15

Top 10 differences for countries with a better FIFA Women's ranking:

Team - FIFA Women's Ranking - Selective Ranking - Difference

Chinese Taipei	36	101	-65
Chile	44	75	-31
New Zealand	24	53	-29
Argentina	33	61	-28
Slovakia	42	66	-24
Myanmar	44	68	-24
China PR	15	38	-23
Vietnam	32	52	-20
Korea Republic	16	35	-19
Mexico	22	41	-19

Here's the full ranking as of March 9th.

Rank - Team - Points

1	France	1489
2	England	1394
3	Sweden	1331
4	USA	1294
5	Ukraine	1284
6	Norway	1278
7	Spain	1266
8	Brazil	1258
9	Iceland	1196
10	Germany	1191
11	Italy	1180
12	Equatorial Guinea	1089
13	Japan	1086
14	Netherlands	1047
15	Denmark	1034
16	Czech Republic	1032
17	Korea DPR	971
18	Russia	954
19	Canada	902
20	Australia	899
21	Republic of Ireland	883
22	Nigeria	873
23	Scotland	840
24	Cameroon	836
25	Austria	803
26	Hungary	780
27	Finland	761
28	Switzerland	759
29	Ghana	733
30	Belarus	727
30	Cuba	727
32	Portugal	715
33	Poland	713
34	South Africa	699
35	Korea Republic	629
36	Wales	612
37	Belgium	608
38	China PR	592
39	Estonia	581
40	Costa Rica	577
41	Mexico	573
42	Trinidad and Tobago	569
43	Turkey	564
44	Serbia	561
45	Romania	559
46	Guyana	555
47	Colombia	537
48	Bulgaria	518
49	Thailand	512
50	Haiti	484
51	Ecuador	448
52	Vietnam	439
53	New Zealand	427
54	Papua New Guinea	417
55	Tunisia	407
56	Barbados	404
57	Greece	401
58	Northern Ireland	383
59	Israel	378
60	Slovenia	366
61	Algeria	365
62	Argentina	354
63	Venezuela	353
64	Puerto Rico	335
65	India	322
66	Paraguay	321
67	Morocco	312
67	Slovakia	312
69	Myanmar	310
70	Faroe Islands	297
71	Croatia	295
72	Armenia	293
73	Jordan	277
74	Mali	270
75	Ethiopia	269
76	Chile	268
77	Namibia	261
78	St. Lucia	260
79	Cook Islands	254
80	Azerbaijan	239
81	Bahrain	238
82	Guinea	232
83	El Salvador	222
84	Tanzania	210
85	Malta	209
86	Latvia	208
87	Angola	197
88	Guatemala	189
89	Lithuania	188
90	Georgia	185
90	Nepal	185
92	FYR Macedonia	184
93	Tonga	175
94	Congo DR	170
95	Egypt	166
96	Senegal	162
97	Antigua and Barbuda	158
98	Uzbekistan	156
99	Zimbabwe	150
100	Luxembourg	148
101	Côte dIvoire	146
102	Solomon Islands	144
103	Hong Kong	136
104	Anguilla	135
105	Chinese Taipei	131
106	Dominican Republic	127
107	Zambia	124
108	Bangladesh	122
109	Bosnia-Herzegovina	119
109	Congo	119
111	Iran	116
112	Bolivia	113
113	Nicaragua	109
114	Fiji	103
115	United Arab Emirates	100
116	Jamaica	99
117	Tahiti	96
118	Laos	90
119	Eritrea	81
119	Kazakhstan	81
121	St. Kitts and Nevis	78
122	Suriname	75
123	Pakistan	71
124	Sri Lanka	69
125	Palestine	67
126	Indonesia	66
127	Philippines	63
128	Kyrgyzstan	57
129	Malaysia	49
130	Bermuda	37
130	Lebanon	37
132	Singapore	30
133	Sierra Leone	27
134	Botswana	23
135	US Virgin Islands	22
136	Grenada	19
136	Samoa	19
138	Honduras	15
139	Bhutan	13
139	Swaziland	13
141	Maldives	12
142	Afghanistan	10
142	Burkina Faso	10
144	Uruguay	7
145	Peru	6
146	Panama	5
147	American Samoa	4
148	Belize	0
148	British Virgin Islands	0
148	Cayman Islands	0
148	Dominica	0
148	Gabon	0
148	Guam	0
148	Iraq	0
148	Kuwait	0
148	Liberia	0
148	Mozambique	0
148	New Caledonia	0
148	Niger	0
148	Qatar	0
148	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0
148	Syria	0
148	Turks and Caicos Islands	0
148	Vanuatu	0

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