FIFA Ranking: September 2015 preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on 3 September.

God willing, I will post the final preview on 28 August.

12 matches left. All friendlies. Of course, that's based on FIFA's World Match Center - and it has a couple of bugs. For instance, the Libya - Morocco August CHAN qualifier is missing.



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

Tunisia	721	754	39	36
Korea Republic	570	580	58	57
Japan	563	582	58	57
Congo DR	508	524	67	66
Iraq	389	399	86	81
China PR	386	408	86	79
Rwanda	375	447	90	77
Morocco	370	413	90	79
Qatar	341	347	95	94
Libya	333	418	98	78
Bahrain	272	286	115	111
Korea DPR	229	253	128	121
Syria	228	256	128	119
Lebanon	219	256	133	119
Singapore	159	175	157	149
Bhutan	128	153	164	162
Malaysia	112	120	169	166
Bangladesh	90	106	174	170
Cambodia	62	70	181	180
American Samoa	17	43	200	191
Tonga	17	43	200	191
Fiji	13	64	200	180

Best movers:

9 - Guatemala
7 - Georgia
6 - Panama, Cuba

Worst movers:

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

Best movers in the top 50:

3 - Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt
2 - Chile, Sweden

Worst movers in the top 50:

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

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 its worst ever ranking:

Papua New Guinea (205 - 203 in June 2011)

Some teams will reach their best ranking in the last couple of years:

Chile (8 - 6 in April 1998) - 17 years and 5 months
Cayman Islands (at least 187 - 183 in October 2012) - 2 years and 11 months
Nicaragua (139 - 136 in November 2012) - 2 years and 10 months
Jamaica (52 - 49 in June 2013) - 2 years and 3 months

Others will drop to their worst ever ranking in the last couple of years:

Japan (at most 57 - 57 in June 2000) - 15 years and 3 months

Malta (160 - 167 in August 2011) - 4 years and 1 month

Benin (116 - 124 in May 2012) - 3 years and 4 months

Finland (at most 92 - 96 in September 2012) - 3 years

South Africa (73 - 85 in January 2013) - 2 years and 8 months

Kazakhstan (145 - 149 in August 2013) - 2 years and 1 month

France (24 - 25 in September 2013) - 2 years

Wales will be ranked above England for the first time ever.
Iceland will be ranked above France for the first time ever.
Austria will be ranked above Croatia for the first time in the last 17 years and 11 months.

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	Ecuador	764	3	6
33	Poland	764	0	-5
35	Sweden	756	2	4
36	Hungary	740	-1	-23
37	Senegal	734	2	12
38	Costa Rica	731	0	3
39	Tunisia	721	-5	-47
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	570	-3	-29
58	Japan	563	-2	-32
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	Serbia	528	1	5
66	Bolivia	521	1	6
67	Congo DR	508	-8	-47
68	Bulgaria	503	1	14
69	Norway	496	-1	1
70	United Arab Emirates	484	0	0
71	Burkina Faso	479	0	-3
72	Uganda	478	2	15
73	South Africa	469	-1	-9
74	Zambia	464	-1	-1
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	Armenia	394	7	21
82	Iraq	389	3	3
83	China PR	386	-4	-30
83	Cyprus	386	-1	-5
85	Haiti	385	-1	-2
86	Angola	381	3	10
87	Sudan	377	0	2
88	Rwanda	375	3	6
89	Morocco	370	-7	-21
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
98	Niger	333	4	21
101	Ethiopia	330	-2	0
102	Oman	328	-3	-2
103	Canada	319	-2	-4
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	Cuba	280	7	26
113	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	277	2	9
114	Mauritania	273	-1	0
115	Bahrain	272	-3	-10
116	Benin	269	-2	0
117	Kenya	268	-1	2
118	Botswana	266	3	13
119	Palestine	256	-1	1
119	St. Kitts and Nevis	256	0	2
121	Madagascar	251	1	0
122	Dominican Republic	248	7	24
123	Moldova	245	4	9
124	Philippines	241	1	2
125	Kuwait	235	1	-2
126	Korea DPR	229	-2	-11
127	Syria	228	-10	-31
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	Barbados	192	-4	-6
143	Guinea-Bissau	191	-1	0
144	Gambia	189	-2	-2
145	Kazakhstan	184	-4	-9
146	Guam	182	0	-3
147	Georgia	180	7	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	142	0	0
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	Yemen	96	1	0
174	Bangladesh	90	-4	-12
175	US Virgin Islands	88	1	0
176	Laos	86	1	0
177	Maldives	82	-2	-8
178	Montserrat	74	0	0
179	Chinese Taipei	72	0	0
180	Cambodia	62	0	-4
181	Brunei Darussalam	61	2	0
181	Tahiti	61	5	11
183	Sri Lanka	59	-1	-3
184	Mauritius	56	-3	-7
184	Nepal	56	0	-1
186	Cayman Islands	49	3	1
186	Macau	49	2	0
186	Solomon Islands	49	5	2
189	Comoros	48	-3	-2
189	São Tomé e Príncipe	48	0	0
191	Seychelles	43	-6	-13
192	San Marino	40	0	0
193	Turks and Caicos Islands	33	0	0
194	British Virgin Islands	27	0	0
195	Samoa	25	2	6
196	Vanuatu	23	0	3
197	South Sudan	22	-2	0
198	American Samoa	17	2	5
198	Tonga	17	0	0
200	Fiji	13	-2	-4
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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