FIFA Ranking: November 2015 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on 5 November.

Only two matches left - both friendlies as far as FIFA are concerned. They are actually CHAN qualifiers.



This is how the points and ranks could change for these 4 teams:

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

Côte d'Ivoire	863	890	26	22
Ghana	793	817	30	28
Congo	593	625	52	47
Cameroon	572	597	60	51

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

Best movers:

39 - Chad
38 - Cyprus
36 - São Tomé e Príncipe

Worst movers:

-44 - Sudan
-36 - Armenia
-30 - Dominican Republic

Best movers in the top 50:

19 - Turkey
13 - Serbia and Paraguay
12 - Republic of Ireland

Worst movers in the top 50:

-18 - Slovenia
-14 - Israel
-12 - Norway

Seven teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Belgium (1 - 2 in June 2015)
Chile (5 - 6 in April 1998)
Austria (10 - 11 in October 2015)
St. Kitts and Nevis (101 - 106 in November 2012)
Aruba (112 - 115 in October 2015)
Belize (117 - 118 in July 2015)
South Sudan (134 - 144 in October 2015)

Two teams will return to their worst ever ranking:

Honduras (95 - 95 in November 1998)
Djibouti (207 - 207 in July 2015)

Nine teams will drop to new lows:

Lithuania (123 - 119 in November 2012)
Kuwait (133 - 128 in February 2015)
Moldova (154 - 149 in July 1994)
New Zealand (159 - 156 in September 2007)
Indonesia (174 - 171 in October 2015)
Suriname (184 - 181 in October 2015)
Nepal (192 - 190 in October 2015)
Sri Lanka (194 - 193 in February 2013)
Solomon Islands (199 - 197 in October 2015)

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

Liberia (86 - 83 in November 2002) - 13 years
Swaziland (130 - 123 in July 2008) - 7 years and 4 months
Kyrgyzstan (124 - 124 in September 2008) - 7 years and 2 months
Turkey (18 - 12 in June 2009) - 6 years and 5 months
Northern Ireland (at least 30 - 30 in October 2009) - 6 years and 1 month
Uganda (68 - 63 in October 2010) - 5 years and 1 month

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

FYR Macedonia (139 - 147 in May 1994) - 21 years and 6 months
Honduras (95 - 95 in November 1998) - 17 years
Netherlands (16 - 21 in June 2000) - 15 years and 5 months
New Caledonia (180 - 188 in May 2006) - 9 years and 6 months
Mozambique (125 - 126 in April 2007) - 8 years and 7 months
Burkina Faso (93 - 111 in June 2008) - 7 years and 5 months
Slovenia (64 - 73 in October 2008) - 7 years and 1 month
Armenia (127 - 131 in June 2009) - 6 years and 5 months
Denmark (35 - 36 in May 2010) - 5 years and 6 months
Puerto Rico (170 - 170 in September 2010) - 5 years and 2 months
Tahiti (191 - 194 in September 2010) - 5 years and 2 months

Chile will be ranked above Brazil for the first time ever.
Northern Ireland will be ranked above USA for the first time ever.
Cape Verde Islands will be ranked above Denmark and USA for the first time ever.
Hungary will be ranked above Denmark for the first time ever.
Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan will be ranked above Kuwait for the first time ever.
Kazakhstan will be ranked above FYR Macedonia for the first time ever.
Guam will be ranked above New Zealand for the first time ever.
Timor-Leste will be ranked above India for the first time ever.

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

1	Belgium	1440	2	53
2	Germany	1388	0	-13
3	Argentina	1383	-2	-36
4	Portugal	1364	0	129
5	Chile	1288	4	111
6	Spain	1287	0	64
7	Colombia	1233	-2	5
8	Brazil	1208	-1	4
9	England	1179	1	18
10	Austria	1130	1	30
11	Switzerland	1073	1	29
12	Uruguay	1051	8	132
13	Italy	1040	4	78
14	Romania	1039	-1	-3
15	Wales	1032	-7	-163
16	Netherlands	976	-2	-28
17	Czech Republic	974	-2	-9
18	Turkey	941	19	224
19	Croatia	924	-3	-41
20	Bosnia-Herzegovina	923	10	136
21	Ecuador	921	10	156
22	Russia	885	4	40
23	France	881	-1	-18
23	Mexico	881	4	39
25	Algeria	872	-6	-55
26	Côte d'Ivoire	863	-5	-53
27	Slovakia	857	-9	-79
28	Ukraine	806	-4	-68
29	Northern Ireland	797	6	73
30	Ghana	793	-5	-56
31	Iceland	792	-8	-90
32	Cape Verde Islands	762	9	61
33	Hungary	759	0	18
33	USA	759	-4	-48
35	Denmark	743	-7	-92
36	Albania	723	-4	-32
37	Greece	718	7	42
38	Poland	712	5	32
39	Senegal	678	-1	-35
40	Costa Rica	671	2	-20
41	Tunisia	668	-5	-54
42	Republic of Ireland	659	12	72
43	Iran	651	-4	-52
44	Scotland	649	-4	-53
45	Sweden	647	0	-25
46	Norway	637	-12	-102
47	Paraguay	610	14	58
48	Korea Republic	606	5	16
49	Serbia	605	14	67
50	Japan	603	5	21
51	Congo	593	-2	-43
52	Guinea	589	3	7
53	Trinidad and Tobago	588	6	24
54	Congo DR	587	6	24
55	Finland	586	9	52
56	Egypt	583	-5	-37
56	Peru	583	-6	-40
58	Nigeria	582	-6	-18
59	Australia	573	-1	6
60	Cameroon	572	-12	-68
61	Israel	559	-14	-100
61	Jamaica	559	-4	-17
63	Mali	552	-1	6
64	Slovenia	547	-18	-115
65	Panama	515	0	-14
66	Bulgaria	497	12	83
67	United Arab Emirates	495	3	4
68	Uganda	491	7	36
69	Equatorial Guinea	487	-2	-23
70	Belarus	479	28	129
71	Uzbekistan	477	3	13
71	Zambia	477	0	-10
73	Gabon	470	-8	-59
73	Haiti	470	4	52
75	South Africa	461	-2	-4
76	Cyprus	444	38	144
77	Bolivia	442	-10	-68
78	Montenegro	426	-6	-44
79	Morocco	422	1	15
80	Antigua and Barbuda	417	3	17
80	Saudi Arabia	417	8	33
82	Jordan	411	17	63
83	Venezuela	408	-14	-93
84	China PR	403	-3	-2
85	Qatar	397	7	32
86	Liberia	394	9	34
87	Iraq	392	-2	-4
88	Togo	386	-9	-25
89	Faroe Islands	385	-4	-11
90	Estonia	370	-3	-18
91	Guatemala	367	-9	-34
92	Oman	365	10	27
93	Burkina Faso	363	-17	-64
94	El Salvador	361	0	-2
95	Honduras	359	-6	-20
96	Rwanda	356	-3	-8
97	Malawi	351	4	12
98	Angola	344	-1	-9
99	Latvia	342	4	7
100	Nicaragua	341	-5	-19
101	St. Kitts and Nevis	340	11	37
102	Canada	335	2	2
103	Benin	333	-3	-8
104	Mauritania	328	-15	-51
105	Botswana	327	6	22
105	Niger	327	15	40
107	Burundi	321	6	19
108	Cuba	312	9	18
109	Zimbabwe	305	0	-8
110	Central African Republic	302	16	31
111	Georgia	301	-1	-7
112	Aruba	299	3	0
113	Libya	297	-8	-31
114	Ethiopia	294	-6	-21
115	Azerbaijan	293	-10	-35
115	Bahrain	293	8	10
117	Belize	292	1	0
118	Madagascar	290	9	28
118	Namibia	290	7	16
120	Korea DPR	288	9	36
121	Sierra Leone	281	0	-5
121	Turkmenistan	281	34	109
123	Lithuania	279	-7	-19
124	Kyrgyzstan	277	22	82
125	Kenya	274	6	29
125	Mozambique	274	-18	-53
127	Armenia	271	-36	-106
128	Sudan	267	-44	-132
129	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	262	-7	-22
130	Swaziland	258	5	34
131	Kazakhstan	256	11	57
132	Syria	254	-9	-29
133	Kuwait	252	-5	-8
134	South Sudan	246	10	48
135	Tanzania	245	1	27
136	Chad	240	39	140
137	Philippines	236	-3	-2
138	Palestine	233	-8	-13
139	FYR Macedonia	230	-7	-9
140	Lebanon	228	0	27
141	Guinea-Bissau	216	6	23
142	Barbados	206	12	31
143	St. Lucia	204	-4	-4
144	Thailand	202	1	6
145	Hong Kong	199	8	19
146	Luxembourg	197	-4	-2
147	Lesotho	193	-7	-8
147	Vietnam	193	2	6
149	Dominican Republic	187	-30	-103
150	Curaçao	182	2	1
151	Bermuda	181	-13	-28
152	Guyana	179	-15	-31
152	Singapore	179	5	15
154	Moldova	177	-22	-62
155	Guam	170	-5	-13
156	Afghanistan	168	-6	-15
157	São Tomé e Príncipe	165	36	117
158	Malta	164	-1	0
159	New Zealand	163	-11	-25
160	Tajikistan	159	0	3
161	Myanmar	157	2	10
162	Timor-Leste	155	8	37
163	Liechtenstein	154	-7	-16
164	Samoa	152	-2	0
165	American Samoa	144	-1	0
166	Maldives	141	10	45
167	Grenada	137	-8	-22
168	Gambia	135	-7	-19
169	Cook Islands	132	-3	0
170	Puerto Rico	129	-5	-5
171	Malaysia	127	0	16
172	India	122	-5	-6
173	Mauritius	117	-5	-6
174	Indonesia	108	-3	-3
175	Dominica	104	-1	2
176	Laos	90	3	5
177	Comoros	89	16	41
178	US Virgin Islands	88	0	0
179	Yemen	81	1	-1
180	Bangladesh	80	2	3
180	Bhutan	80	-7	-26
180	New Caledonia	80	-11	-40
183	Cambodia	78	3	12
184	Suriname	77	-3	-2
185	Pakistan	76	-8	-13
186	Brunei Darussalam	74	1	13
187	Chinese Taipei	71	-4	2
188	Montserrat	67	-4	0
189	Fiji	60	0	0
189	Seychelles	60	-5	-7
191	Tahiti	56	-3	-4
192	Nepal	51	-2	0
193	Cayman Islands	49	-2	0
194	Sri Lanka	45	-3	-4
195	Macau	44	-2	-4
196	San Marino	35	0	0
197	Turks and Caicos Islands	33	0	0
198	British Virgin Islands	27	1	0
199	Solomon Islands	26	-2	-7
200	Tonga	17	0	0
201	Vanuatu	13	0	0
202	Eritrea	8	0	0
203	Mongolia	6	0	0
203	Somalia	6	0	0
205	Andorra	5	0	0
206	Papua New Guinea	4	0	0
207	Anguilla	0	1	0
207	Bahamas	0	1	0
207	Djibouti	0	-1	-4

 

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