FIFA Ranking: September 2015 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on 3 September.

Top 69 already set.

8 matches left, all friendlies (deadline for matches being Sunday).


This is how the points and ranks could change for these 16 teams:

Team - Minimum points - Maximum points - Worst rank - Best rank

United Arab Emirates	470	477	72	71
Burkina Faso	462	480	74	70
Rwanda	375	426	89	78
Qatar	341	347	95	94
Oman	322	329	102	100
Niger	315	348	103	94
Ethiopia	313	338	103	96
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	264	276	118	114
Barbados	180	198	146	139
Singapore	159	175	158	149
Myanmar	136	160	162	155
Malaysia	112	120	170	166
Bangladesh	90	106	175	170
Yemen	90	113	175	169
Laos	82	92	176	173
Cambodia	66	74	180	178

In the table below I've used the minimum points for these teams.

Best movers:

17 - Fiji
8 - Guatemala
7 - Georgia

Worst movers:

-7 - Seychelles
-6 - Cape Verde Islands, Congo DR
-5 - Belize

Best movers in the top 50:

3 - Denmark, Egypt
2 - Chile, Ecuador

Worst movers in the top 50:

-6 - Cape Verde Islands
-3 - Albania
-2 - England, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Venezuela

Two teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Austria (13 - 14 in August 2015)
Congo (42 - 43 in August 2015)

One will return to its best ever ranking:

Iceland (23 - 23 in July 2015)

One will drop to new lows:

Papua New Guinea (205 - 203 in June 2011)

September 2015 rank - Team - September 2015 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points

1	Argentina	1442	0	17
2	Belgium	1269	0	25
3	Germany	1248	0	22
4	Colombia	1224	0	6
5	Brazil	1209	0	23
6	Portugal	1186	0	9
7	Romania	1176	0	10
8	Chile	1149	2	25
9	Wales	1146	0	-9
10	England	1143	-2	-14
11	Spain	1122	0	12
12	Netherlands	1054	0	22
13	Austria	1038	1	22
14	Croatia	1037	-1	14
15	Slovakia	1013	-1	-3
16	Italy	1012	0	11
17	Switzerland	1011	0	14
18	Uruguay	1002	0	14
19	Algeria	955	0	14
20	Czech Republic	940	0	7
21	Côte d'Ivoire	924	0	12
22	Denmark	901	3	25
23	Iceland	894	1	17
24	France	893	-1	11
25	Albania	878	-3	-10
26	Mexico	848	0	10
27	Ghana	827	0	0
28	USA	823	1	7
29	Ukraine	812	1	21
30	Bosnia-Herzegovina	811	-2	-8
31	Scotland	789	1	15
32	Russia	780	-1	-2
33	Tunisia	774	1	6
34	Ecuador	764	2	6
34	Poland	764	-1	-5
36	Sweden	756	1	4
37	Hungary	740	-2	-23
38	Senegal	734	1	12
39	Costa Rica	731	-1	3
40	Iran	716	1	-2
41	Northern Ireland	687	-1	-34
42	Cameroon	671	0	4
42	Congo	671	1	5
44	Greece	657	0	-4
45	Slovenia	653	1	27
46	Israel	635	1	15
46	Turkey	635	-1	8
48	Peru	628	1	16
49	Egypt	619	3	13
50	Venezuela	613	-2	-4
51	Republic of Ireland	605	-1	-3
52	Jamaica	602	3	6
53	Nigeria	599	0	-2
54	Trinidad and Tobago	594	2	-1
55	Paraguay	592	3	4
56	Cape Verde Islands	589	-6	-19
57	Korea Republic	574	-3	-25
58	Japan	570	-2	-25
59	Panama	551	6	23
60	Mali	550	3	5
61	Australia	548	0	-3
62	Equatorial Guinea	546	0	0
63	Gabon	535	1	-9
63	Guinea	535	-3	-17
65	Congo DR	529	-6	-26
66	Serbia	528	0	5
67	Bolivia	521	0	6
68	Bulgaria	503	1	14
69	Norway	496	-1	1
70	Uganda	478	4	15
71	United Arab Emirates	470	-1	-14
72	South Africa	469	0	-9
73	Zambia	464	0	-1
74	Burkina Faso	462	-3	-20
75	Faroe Islands	459	0	3
76	Uzbekistan	453	0	1
77	Montenegro	430	0	7
78	Togo	418	2	3
79	Estonia	405	-1	-15
80	Honduras	404	1	-5
81	Iraq	399	4	13
82	Armenia	394	6	21
83	China PR	393	-4	-23
84	Morocco	391	-2	0
85	Cyprus	386	-3	-5
86	Haiti	385	-2	-2
87	Angola	381	2	10
88	Sudan	377	-1	2
89	Rwanda	375	2	6
90	Latvia	366	-4	-11
91	Jordan	356	1	-1
92	Finland	351	-3	-20
93	Saudi Arabia	350	0	-1
94	Qatar	341	1	-3
95	Mozambique	340	2	1
96	Malawi	336	2	1
97	Belarus	335	-1	-6
98	Guatemala	333	10	34
98	Libya	333	-4	-12
100	Oman	322	-1	-8
101	Canada	319	0	-4
102	Niger	315	0	3
103	Ethiopia	313	-4	-17
104	FYR Macedonia	305	-1	-6
105	Antigua and Barbuda	304	0	1
105	Sierra Leone	304	-1	0
107	El Salvador	300	3	11
108	Zimbabwe	298	0	-1
109	Lithuania	294	-2	-7
110	Azerbaijan	291	-4	-11
111	Namibia	284	0	0
112	Bahrain	281	0	-1
113	Cuba	280	6	26
114	Mauritania	273	-1	0
115	Benin	269	-1	0
116	Kenya	268	0	2
117	Botswana	266	4	13
118	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	264	-3	-4
119	Palestine	256	-1	1
119	St. Kitts and Nevis	256	0	2
121	Madagascar	251	1	0
121	Syria	251	-4	-8
123	Dominican Republic	248	6	24
124	Moldova	245	3	9
125	Philippines	241	0	2
126	Korea DPR	237	-2	-3
127	Kuwait	235	-1	-2
128	Belize	227	-5	-15
128	Lesotho	227	0	-2
130	Afghanistan	226	4	14
131	St. Lucia	222	0	2
132	Bermuda	220	3	11
133	Lebanon	219	-3	-4
134	Burundi	218	-2	0
135	Swaziland	213	-3	-5
136	New Zealand	209	-1	0
137	Aruba	201	0	0
137	Thailand	201	2	4
139	Nicaragua	198	5	10
140	Tanzania	195	0	1
141	Luxembourg	194	4	7
142	Guinea-Bissau	191	0	0
143	Gambia	189	-1	-2
144	Kazakhstan	184	-3	-9
145	Guam	182	1	-3
146	Barbados	180	-8	-18
146	Georgia	180	8	15
148	Curaçao	178	0	5
149	Turkmenistan	172	0	0
150	Liechtenstein	171	-3	-11
151	Hong Kong	169	0	1
152	Puerto Rico	166	-2	-3
152	Vietnam	166	1	0
154	Guyana	165	-2	-2
155	India	160	1	0
155	Kyrgyzstan	160	1	0
157	Singapore	159	-2	-3
158	Grenada	155	2	2
158	Tajikistan	155	0	-4
160	Liberia	154	1	4
160	Malta	154	-1	-3
162	Myanmar	136	0	-6
163	Timor-Leste	130	0	0
164	Bhutan	128	0	0
165	Indonesia	121	0	-3
166	New Caledonia	120	1	2
166	Suriname	120	-1	-4
168	Central African Republic	118	1	7
169	Malaysia	112	-1	-4
170	Pakistan	105	1	4
171	Chad	100	1	0
172	Dominica	98	1	0
173	Bangladesh	90	-3	-12
173	Yemen	90	1	-6
175	US Virgin Islands	88	1	0
176	Laos	82	1	-4
176	Maldives	82	-1	-8
178	Montserrat	74	0	0
179	Chinese Taipei	72	0	0
180	Cambodia	66	0	0
181	Fiji	64	17	47
182	Brunei Darussalam	61	1	0
182	Tahiti	61	4	11
184	Sri Lanka	59	-2	-3
185	Mauritius	56	-4	-7
185	Nepal	56	-1	-1
187	Cayman Islands	49	2	1
187	Macau	49	1	0
187	Solomon Islands	49	4	2
190	Comoros	48	-4	-2
190	São Tomé e Príncipe	48	-1	0
192	Seychelles	43	-7	-13
193	San Marino	40	-1	0
194	Turks and Caicos Islands	33	-1	0
195	British Virgin Islands	27	-1	0
196	Samoa	25	1	6
197	Vanuatu	23	-1	3
198	South Sudan	22	-3	0
199	American Samoa	17	1	5
199	Tonga	17	-1	0
201	Eritrea	8	2	0
202	Andorra	6	-1	-3
202	Mongolia	6	2	0
202	Somalia	6	2	0
205	Cook Islands	4	1	0
205	Djibouti	4	1	0
205	Papua New Guinea	4	-4	-5
208	Anguilla	0	0	0
208	Bahamas	0	0	0

 

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