FIFA Ranking: December 2011 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on December 21st.

The official deadline for matches was yesterday, but based on the ranking prognosis for teams like Palestine and Angola, it seems FIFA will extend the deadline to Sunday.

Pan Arab games involving Libya and Jordan have disappeared and then appeared again on FIFA.com. I know Libya and Jordan wrote to FIFA to have those games removed. However, since those matches are now displayed, I used them to compute the points. Not sure how Hussein feels about this :)

The top 50 is virtually unchanged.

Jamaica drop from 3rd to 5th in CONCACAF, with Panama and Honduras each moving up one spot. Marea Roja now 3rd, behind Mexico and USA.

Samoa go from 10th to 2nd in Oceania, with Solomon Islands dropping out of the top 5.

Best movers:

55 - Samoa
35 - Vietnam
26 - Tonga

Worst movers:

-28 - Zimbabwe and Grenada
-22 - Cuba
-15 - Bangladesh and Libya

Best movers in the top 50:

3 - Bosnia-Herzegovina
2 - Scotland, Wales and Panama

Worst movers in the top 50:

-7 - Jamaica
-2 - Cameroon
-1 - Mexico, Republic of Ireland and Australia

Five teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Bosnia-Herzegovina (20th - 21st in October 2011)
Panama (49th - 50th in February 2009)
Estonia (57th - 58th in September 2011)
Aruba (163rd - 164th in February 1994)
American Samoa (186th - 192nd in October 1998)

Three teams will return to their worst ever ranking

Eritrea (190th - first happened in September 2011)
Macau (197th - first happened in August 2008)
Bhutan (202nd - first happened in May 2001)

Fifteen teams will have their worst ever ranking:

Cyprus (127th - 126th in November 2011)
United Arab Emirates (130th - 124th in August 2009)
Barbados (165th - 161st in November 2011)
Hong Kong (169th - 168th in November 2011)
Myanmar (172nd - 170th in October 2011)
Sri Lanka (180th - 177th in October 2011)
Swaziland (180th - 179th in November 2011)
Kyrgyzstan (191st - 188th in November 2011)
British Virgin Islands (199th - 195th in March 2010)
Brunei Darussalam (202nd - 199th in December 2004)
Mauritania (204th - 201st in November 2011)
Timor-Leste (205th - 203rd in November 2011)
Andorra (206th - 204th in November 2011)
Montserrat (206th - 205th in June 2004)
San Marino (206th - 204th in November 2011)

December 2011 rank - Team - December 2011 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points

1	Spain	1564	0	0
2	Netherlands	1365	0	0
3	Germany	1345	0	0
4	Uruguay	1309	0	0
5	England	1173	0	0
6	Brazil	1143	0	0
7	Portugal	1100	0	0
8	Croatia	1091	0	0
9	Italy	1082	0	0
10	Argentina	1067	0	0
11	Denmark	1035	0	0
12	Russia	971	0	0
13	Chile	970	0	0
14	Greece	964	0	0
15	France	915	0	0
16	Côte d'Ivoire	912	0	0
17	Switzerland	898	0	0
18	Sweden	891	0	0
19	Japan	884	0	0
20	Bosnia-Herzegovina	869	3	31
21	Mexico	866	-1	0
22	Republic of Ireland	864	-1	0
23	Australia	851	-1	0
24	Paraguay	795	0	0
25	Norway	788	0	0
26	Slovenia	780	0	0
27	Serbia	775	0	0
28	Turkey	769	0	0
29	Ghana	761	0	0
30	Algeria	758	0	0
31	Egypt	755	0	-2
32	Korea Republic	752	0	0
33	Czech Republic	749	0	0
34	USA	721	0	0
35	Peru	712	0	0
36	Colombia	709	0	0
37	Hungary	665	0	0
37	Israel	665	0	0
39	Venezuela	661	0	0
40	Slovakia	648	0	0
41	Belgium	647	0	0
42	Ecuador	634	0	4
43	Nigeria	627	0	0
44	Senegal	625	0	0
45	Iran	616	0	0
46	Armenia	612	0	0
47	Scotland	599	2	0
48	Wales	591	2	0
49	Panama	589	2	4
50	Cameroon	588	-2	-14
51	Montenegro	585	0	0
52	South Africa	577	1	0
53	Honduras	574	1	4
54	Jamaica	573	-7	-36
55	Ukraine	568	0	0
56	Romania	562	0	0
57	Estonia	555	1	12
58	Cape Verde Islands	549	-1	5
59	Tunisia	537	0	0
60	Sierra Leone	526	1	5
61	Morocco	524	-1	0
62	Burkina Faso	518	0	0
63	Belarus	501	2	0
64	Costa Rica	495	0	-8
65	Poland	492	1	5
66	Mali	472	1	0
67	Latvia	466	1	0
68	Zambia	464	11	28
69	El Salvador	463	0	0
70	Austria	459	1	0
71	China PR	457	1	2
72	Canada	455	0	0
73	Georgia	451	1	0
73	Iraq	451	8	22
75	Albania	450	0	0
76	Uzbekistan	449	0	0
77	Trinidad and Tobago	447	9	38
78	Libya	446	-15	-68
79	Gabon	445	-2	0
80	Guinea	436	-1	0
81	Haiti	429	-3	-9
82	Bulgaria	410	3	0
83	Oman	408	10	21
84	Finland	405	4	0
85	Antigua and Barbuda	404	-2	-14
85	Jordan	404	-3	-15
87	Northern Ireland	403	2	0
88	Angola	402	-4	-10
89	Uganda	398	2	4
90	Guatemala	397	0	0
91	Guyana	387	6	17
92	Qatar	384	3	9
93	Lithuania	382	1	0
94	Malawi	374	-7	-33
95	Botswana	371	1	0
96	Saudi Arabia	363	2	2
97	Niger	361	1	0
98	Zimbabwe	354	-28	-108
99	Kuwait	351	1	0
99	Vietnam	351	35	117
101	Bahrain	350	1	10
101	Togo	350	0	0
103	FYR Macedonia	333	0	0
104	Iceland	325	0	0
105	Mozambique	322	0	-2
106	Rwanda	313	8	16
106	Sudan	313	6	9
108	Bermuda	310	1	3
109	Bolivia	309	-3	0
109	Puerto Rico	309	-3	0
111	Korea DPR	306	-1	0
111	Lebanon	306	0	1
113	Azerbaijan	300	0	0
114	Cuba	290	-22	-100
114	Syria	290	1	-3
116	Faroe Islands	285	0	0
116	Gambia	285	2	5
116	St. Kitts and Nevis	285	1	1
119	New Zealand	271	0	0
120	Kenya	269	13	29
121	Namibia	264	0	0
122	Thailand	262	10	19
123	Liberia	258	0	0
124	Benin	257	0	0
125	Congo DR	254	0	0
125	Suriname	254	-3	-7
127	Cyprus	253	-1	0
128	Luxembourg	252	-1	0
129	Central African Republic	251	-1	0
130	United Arab Emirates	250	-10	-15
131	Dominican Republic	247	-2	0
132	Liechtenstein	246	-2	0
133	Congo	245	-2	0
134	Grenada	241	-28	-68
135	Ethiopia	230	2	5
136	Moldova	229	-1	0
137	Tanzania	224	-1	-4
138	Kazakhstan	220	0	1
139	Tajikistan	208	0	1
140	Burundi	203	5	29
141	Belize	194	-1	0
142	Indonesia	189	2	13
143	Chad	188	-2	0
144	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	170	2	0
145	Singapore	165	7	19
146	Turkmenistan	164	1	0
147	Lesotho	160	1	0
148	Malaysia	154	7	14
149	Samoa	149	55	149
150	Equatorial Guinea	148	1	0
151	Curacao	146	-2	-8
151	Yemen	146	-1	-7
153	Nepal	144	-10	-33
154	Bahamas	141	-1	0
154	Nicaragua	141	-1	0
156	Malta	140	-1	0
157	Bangladesh	138	-15	-43
158	Philippines	136	1	6
159	Madagascar	135	-2	0
160	Fiji	133	-2	0
161	India	131	1	12
162	Guinea-Bissau	121	-2	-8
163	Aruba	120	9	28
163	Palestine	120	1	7
165	Barbados	119	-4	-6
166	New Caledonia	116	-3	0
167	Chinese Taipei	114	-2	5
168	Mongolia	106	-2	0
169	Hong Kong	105	-1	0
170	Cambodia	101	-1	-2
171	Dominica	100	2	10
172	Myanmar	99	-3	-4
173	Maldives	98	-7	-8
174	Laos	96	1	10
174	Vanuatu	96	-3	0
176	Tonga	88	26	85
177	Afghanistan	85	1	8
178	US Virgin Islands	82	-1	0
179	Pakistan	76	-5	-11
180	Solomon Islands	75	-1	0
180	Sri Lanka	75	-4	-10
180	Swaziland	75	-1	0
183	Cayman Islands	74	-2	0
184	Tahiti	73	-2	0
185	St. Lucia	65	-1	0
186	American Samoa	61	18	61
187	Comoros	55	-1	0
188	Seychelles	53	-5	-16
189	Somalia	47	-2	-4
190	Eritrea	45	-6	-20
191	Kyrgyzstan	42	-3	0
192	Guam	36	-3	0
193	Papua New Guinea	34	-3	0
194	Mauritius	32	-3	0
195	Cook Islands	28	1	18
196	Sao Tome e Principe	27	-4	0
197	Macau	26	-4	0
198	Djibouti	25	2	20
199	British Virgin Islands	23	-5	0
200	Turks and Caicos Islands	13	-5	0
201	Anguilla	9	-4	0
202	Bhutan	6	-4	0
202	Brunei Darussalam	6	-4	0
204	Mauritania	4	-3	0
205	Timor-Leste	2	-2	0
206	Andorra	0	-2	0
206	Montserrat	0	-2	0
206	San Marino	0	-2	0

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