FIFA Ranking: November 2012 preview (II)

Next update: 2 November 2012.

11 matches left before 3 November, the deadline I think FIFA will use. A couple of 2013 Gold Cup qualifiers in the Caribbean and a couple of friendlies in Vietnam.The results of these matches will not affect the top 90.

On 9 October, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee has declared the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ qualifying match Sudan-Zambia of 2 June 2012 to be lost by forfeit by Sudan (0-3), but the result still appears as 2-0 win for Sudan. However, for my calculations I have used the 0-3 result.



Minimum/maximum points and lowest/highest possible ranking for the teams involved in these matches:

Dominican Republic	327	406	105	91
Guyana	264	329	129	104
Puerto Rico	248	313	132	111
Turkmenistan	219	254	140	128
Vietnam	188	238	143	132
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	179	296	145	117
Curacao	134	308	163	115
Malaysia	127	142	164	157
Laos	87	146	177	157
St. Lucia	33	278	197	122

In the table below, the values displayed for these teams are the minimum possible.



Russia replace Uruguay in the top 10.

Best movers:

30 - Niger
27 - Myanmar
21 - Bolivia and FYR Macedonia

Worst movers:

-20 - Congo
-19 - Cyprus
-18 - Armenia and Sudan

Best movers in the top 50:

19 - Hungary
15 - Bulgaria
14 - Iran

Worst movers in the top 50:

-14 - Slovenia
-13 - Ukraine
-9 - Republic of Ireland, Serbia and Venezuela

Four teams will improve their best ever rankings:

Algeria (19 - 24 in October 2012)
Haiti (57 - 60 in October 2012)
St. Kitts and Nevis (106 to 104 - 108 in July 2004)
Philippines (145 to 142 - 147 in October 2012)
Timor-Leste (187 to 186 - 197 in December 2008)
Ecuador (17 - 17 in September 2012)
Anguilla (205 - 205 in July 2006)
Thailand (153 to 151 - 141 in April 2012)
Hong Kong (173 to 171 - 169 in December 2011)
Eritrea (192 to 191 - 190 in September 2011)
Kyrgyzstan (200 - 198 in October 2012)
South Sudan (200 - 199 in August 2012)
Djibouti (202 - 201 in December 2004)
Mauritania (206 - 205 in October 2012)

Zambia replace Egypt as Africa's 5th team.

Haiti replace Honduras as CONCACAF's 5th team.

Colombia and Uruguay switch places, with Los Cafeteros now 2nd in South America. Ecuador replace Chile as CONMEBOL's 5th team.

Italy replace Netherlands in the top 5, with Gli Azzurri now 4th. England drop to 5th in Europe.

November 2012 rank - Team - November 2012 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points

1	Spain	1564	0	-47
2	Germany	1421	0	-38
3	Argentina	1349	1	141
4	Portugal	1178	-1	-81
5	Italy	1169	3	63
6	England	1167	-1	-29
7	Netherlands	1128	-1	-13
8	Colombia	1110	1	8
9	Russia	1084	3	70
10	Croatia	1078	1	55
11	Uruguay	1047	-4	-93
12	Greece	1004	-2	-25
13	Brazil	994	1	-7
14	Mexico	984	5	59
15	Côte d'Ivoire	974	1	23
16	Switzerland	966	-1	-17
17	Ecuador	951	3	49
18	France	938	-5	-73
19	Algeria	907	5	105
20	Belgium	881	10	158
21	Chile	853	-4	-95
22	Denmark	851	-4	-93
23	Sweden	826	-2	-33
24	Japan	810	-1	-8
25	Czech Republic	806	-3	-31
26	Norway	778	0	14
27	USA	776	5	56
28	Mali	772	-1	13
29	Ghana	762	2	40
30	Hungary	753	19	160
31	Bosnia-Herzegovina	746	-2	6
32	Korea Republic	728	-7	-48
33	Australia	719	1	17
34	Zambia	698	7	67
35	Montenegro	691	9	68
36	Paraguay	690	2	25
37	Republic of Ireland	682	-9	-75
38	Romania	669	8	50
39	Turkey	639	-3	-50
40	Bulgaria	627	15	62
40	Egypt	627	0	-7
42	Serbia	626	-9	-80
43	Slovakia	619	5	11
44	Iran	611	14	62
44	Peru	611	-7	-70
46	Panama	609	-3	-16
46	Tunisia	609	-1	-11
48	Venezuela	600	-9	-35
49	Slovenia	593	-14	-101
50	Jamaica	586	2	3
51	Bolivia	585	21	120
52	Central African Republic	581	-3	-12
52	Gabon	581	-5	-29
54	Poland	579	0	6
55	Ukraine	575	-13	-55
56	Honduras	572	10	72
57	Haiti	553	3	29
57	Nigeria	553	6	42
59	Libya	545	-6	-33
60	Canada	526	1	10
61	Sierra Leone	521	6	22
62	Cameroon	520	9	45
63	Cape Verde Islands	511	-12	-76
64	Costa Rica	509	8	44
65	Georgia	499	0	-2
66	Wales	497	-9	-54
67	Albania	496	17	82
68	Austria	492	-9	-36
69	Uzbekistan	490	1	11
70	Scotland	488	-14	-68
71	Guinea	485	-9	-30
72	Morocco	482	3	31
73	Togo	479	20	102
74	Belarus	478	13	68
75	Senegal	471	-7	-21
76	Guatemala	467	5	36
77	Benin	457	-3	4
78	Israel	452	4	29
79	Angola	446	4	27
79	Trinidad and Tobago	446	-2	4
81	Korea DPR	445	5	34
82	Armenia	444	-18	-59
83	FYR Macedonia	431	21	97
84	Estonia	430	-15	-55
84	South Africa	430	-8	-18
86	Oman	428	9	58
87	China PR	424	-2	11
88	Burkina Faso	423	3	31
89	Jordan	420	-11	-21
90	Finland	411	-2	4
91	New Zealand	404	1	14
92	El Salvador	402	-14	-39
93	Equatorial Guinea	397	12	69
94	Iceland	392	3	30
95	Iraq	390	-15	-49
96	Uganda	385	-6	-9
97	Zimbabwe	383	-8	-13
98	Congo DR	360	5	15
99	Northern Ireland	356	18	69
100	Malawi	337	-4	-28
101	Ethiopia	333	17	49
102	New Caledonia	330	11	27
102	Qatar	330	-1	-20
104	Dominican Republic	327	-2	-19
104	St. Kitts and Nevis	327	18	51
106	Niger	324	31	106
107	Latvia	322	11	38
108	United Arab Emirates	320	8	32
109	Kuwait	318	3	10
109	Mozambique	318	-10	-34
111	Lebanon	313	-2	-1
111	Saudi Arabia	313	2	10
113	Liberia	312	-15	-45
114	Congo	309	-20	-65
115	Botswana	299	5	22
115	Namibia	299	-7	-19
117	Lithuania	296	-7	-15
118	Sudan	288	-18	-63
119	Chad	282	6	16
120	Antigua and Barbuda	281	-14	-43
121	Rwanda	280	3	8
122	Azerbaijan	277	-11	-32
123	Bahrain	270	-8	-21
124	Suriname	265	6	22
125	Guyana	264	-3	-12
126	Cyprus	258	-19	-63
127	Burundi	255	8	23
128	Kenya	248	0	-14
128	Puerto Rico	248	1	4
130	Moldova	241	15	54
131	Sao Tome e Principe	240	1	0
132	Tanzania	237	0	-3
133	Bermuda	235	-13	-42
134	Nicaragua	233	4	23
135	Tajikistan	225	1	5
136	Turkmenistan	219	-11	-47
137	Tahiti	215	-10	-50
138	Kazakhstan	200	9	22
139	Cuba	198	7	19
140	Vietnam	188	0	-15
141	Gambia	186	-10	-56
142	Philippines	184	5	6
143	Belize	179	1	-9
143	Luxembourg	179	-1	-12
143	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	179	0	-11
146	Syria	172	4	3
147	Palestine	168	2	-2
148	Grenada	166	-14	-68
148	Malta	166	5	10
148	Solomon Islands	166	-7	-36
151	Thailand	160	-12	-46
152	Barbados	158	0	0
153	Aruba	154	1	0
154	Dominica	151	2	5
155	Myanmar	149	29	89
156	Liechtenstein	147	-1	-3
157	Lesotho	140	1	5
158	Faroe Islands	138	0	3
159	Maldives	135	1	2
160	Curacao	134	-9	-32
161	Yemen	131	-4	-10
162	Malaysia	127	0	1
162	Singapore	127	0	1
164	Indonesia	124	6	13
164	Samoa	124	0	0
166	Afghanistan	121	0	-1
166	Fiji	121	1	0
168	India	116	0	2
168	Nepal	116	-3	-7
170	Bangladesh	114	-1	2
171	Hong Kong	108	-11	-25
172	Madagascar	106	-1	0
173	Vanuatu	99	-1	0
174	Guinea-Bissau	98	-1	0
175	Chinese Taipei	90	1	10
176	Laos	87	17	49
176	Tonga	87	-2	0
178	American Samoa	85	-3	0
179	Pakistan	72	-2	0
180	Guam	71	-2	0
181	Sri Lanka	68	-1	0
182	Bahamas	66	-1	0
182	Montserrat	66	-1	0
184	Swaziland	56	6	17
185	Mongolia	55	0	0
186	Brunei Darussalam	52	17	47
186	Timor-Leste	52	20	50
188	Cayman Islands	51	-5	-14
189	US Virgin Islands	50	-10	-20
190	Cambodia	49	-1	7
191	Eritrea	45	-4	0
192	Somalia	43	-4	0
193	Seychelles	39	-3	0
194	Papua New Guinea	38	-1	0
195	Comoros	36	-5	-3
196	British Virgin Islands	34	-1	0
197	St. Lucia	33	-12	-22
198	Cook Islands	28	-2	0
199	Macau	22	-1	2
200	Kyrgyzstan	20	-2	0
200	South Sudan	20	-2	0
202	Djibouti	17	-5	-8
203	Andorra	13	-2	0
203	Mauritius	13	-2	0
205	Anguilla	4	-1	0
206	Mauritania	3	-1	0
207	Bhutan	0	0	0
207	San Marino	0	0	0
207	Turks and Caicos Islands	0	0	0

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