FIFA Ranking: January 2016 preview

FIFA will release the ranking on 7 January 2016.

This will most likely be the final preview for January.

15 matches left - all friendlies for FIFA ranking purposes. Most of them are part of the 2015 SAFF Championship.



This is how the points and ranks could change for these 11 teams:

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

Costa Rica	743	761	39	36
Honduras	331	349	105	97
Nicaragua	297	366	116	95
Cuba	259	307	136	109
Afghanistan	157	192	157	150
Maldives	140	185	162	153
India	111	139	176	163
Bangladesh	71	108	188	176
Bhutan	49	85	193	179
Nepal	46	111	194	175
Sri Lanka	40	112	196	175

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

Best movers:

11 - Thailand
10 - Rwanda
6 - Zambia

Worst movers:

-18 - Cuba
-10 - Antigua and Barbuda
-7 - Korea DPR

Best movers in the top 50:

2 - Iran
1 - Sweden, Guinea

Worst movers in the top 50:

-1 - Mexico, Poland, Finland, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago


Two teams will improve their best ever ranking:


Uganda (62 - 63 in December 2015)
Kyrgyzstan (106 - 108 in December 2015)

Two teams will drop to new lows:

Kuwait (141 - 139 in December 2015)
Lithuania (127 - 126 in December 2015)

January 2016 rank - Team - January 2016 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points

1	Belgium	1494	0	0
2	Argentina	1455	0	0
3	Spain	1370	0	0
4	Germany	1347	0	0
5	Chile	1269	0	-4
6	Brazil	1251	0	0
7	Portugal	1219	0	0
8	Colombia	1211	0	0
9	England	1106	0	0
10	Austria	1091	0	0
11	Uruguay	1074	0	0
12	Switzerland	1050	0	0
13	Ecuador	1040	0	0
14	Netherlands	994	0	0
15	Italy	991	0	0
16	Romania	980	0	0
17	Wales	974	0	0
18	Croatia	958	0	0
19	Côte d'Ivoire	950	0	0
20	Hungary	945	0	0
21	Turkey	933	0	0
22	Bosnia and Herzegovina	905	0	7
23	Mexico	898	-1	0
24	Russia	895	0	0
25	France	868	0	0
26	Czech Republic	860	0	0
26	Slovakia	860	0	0
28	Algeria	845	0	0
29	Ukraine	842	0	0
30	Northern Ireland	825	0	0
31	Republic of Ireland	810	0	0
32	USA	784	0	0
33	Ghana	776	0	-2
34	Sweden	771	1	0
35	Poland	769	-1	-7
36	Iceland	761	0	0
37	Albania	746	1	0
38	Cape Verde Islands	745	1	0
39	Costa Rica	743	-2	-16
40	Tunisia	711	0	0
41	Greece	706	0	0
42	Denmark	685	0	0
43	Iran	672	2	19
44	Finland	663	-1	0
45	Senegal	661	-1	0
46	Paraguay	652	0	5
47	Peru	644	0	0
48	Congo	638	0	0
49	Guinea	624	1	3
50	Trinidad and Tobago	623	-1	-5
51	Korea Republic	617	0	0
52	Scotland	609	0	0
53	Japan	607	0	0
54	Norway	591	0	0
55	Jamaica	590	-1	-1
55	Serbia	590	1	0
57	Cameroon	586	2	3
58	Egypt	585	-1	0
59	Australia	583	-2	-2
60	Congo DR	580	0	0
61	Slovenia	565	0	0
62	Uganda	553	1	3
63	Mali	552	-1	0
64	United Arab Emirates	547	1	4
65	Panama	544	-1	0
66	Nigeria	540	0	-1
67	Zambia	516	6	35
68	Belarus	514	-1	0
69	Equatorial Guinea	504	0	6
70	Bolivia	500	-2	0
71	Israel	498	-2	0
72	Bulgaria	494	-1	0
73	Uzbekistan	489	1	19
74	South Africa	486	-2	-1
75	Saudi Arabia	474	5	42
76	Morocco	469	-1	0
77	Gabon	468	-1	0
78	Benin	458	0	-3
79	Haiti	453	-2	-14
80	Cyprus	441	-1	0
81	Libya	427	0	0
82	China PR	413	2	8
83	Venezuela	412	0	4
84	Qatar	404	2	3
85	Montenegro	403	0	0
86	Jordan	398	1	-1
87	Iraq	395	2	14
88	Canada	388	0	0
89	Burkina Faso	385	0	4
90	Estonia	379	3	10
91	Rwanda	375	10	37
92	Antigua and Barbuda	371	-10	-38
93	Guatemala	368	1	0
93	Togo	368	3	5
95	Botswana	363	0	-1
96	Faroe Islands	357	1	0
97	El Salvador	344	2	0
97	Oman	344	7	11
99	Kenya	339	-1	-6
100	Latvia	338	1	0
101	Liberia	337	6	8
101	Niger	337	-1	-2
103	Angola	333	2	3
104	Honduras	331	-3	-7
105	Malawi	327	4	5
106	Kyrgyzstan	324	2	0
107	Zimbabwe	322	3	4
108	Mozambique	316	3	-1
109	Burundi	307	3	0
110	Central African Republic	302	3	0
110	Mauritania	302	6	5
112	Chad	301	2	0
112	Korea DPR	301	-7	-29
114	Aruba	298	1	0
115	Nicaragua	297	-23	-73
116	Azerbaijan	296	1	0
117	Turkmenistan	294	2	0
118	Ethiopia	291	2	-2
119	St. Kitts and Nevis	289	2	0
120	Georgia	286	2	0
121	Armenia	285	2	0
121	Bahrain	285	3	7
121	Sierra Leone	285	-3	-10
121	Thailand	285	12	22
125	Syria	278	0	2
126	Tanzania	277	6	13
127	Lithuania	274	-1	0
128	Belize	273	-1	0
129	Madagascar	272	-1	0
130	Sudan	271	4	12
131	Palestine	267	3	8
132	Kazakhstan	266	-3	0
133	Namibia	265	-4	-1
133	Swaziland	265	-2	0
135	Philippines	264	4	25
136	Cuba	259	-45	-118
136	Hong Kong	259	1	7
138	FYR Macedonia	257	-2	0
139	South Sudan	246	-1	0
140	Lebanon	245	-1	6
141	Kuwait	242	-2	3
142	Luxembourg	237	0	0
143	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	221	0	0
144	St. Lucia	216	0	0
145	Barbados	214	0	0
146	Vietnam	209	1	9
147	Guinea-Bissau	207	-1	0
148	Singapore	196	1	1
148	Tajikistan	196	0	0
150	Curaçao	192	1	0
150	New Zealand	192	1	0
152	Lesotho	186	1	1
153	Moldova	172	2	0
154	São Tomé e Príncipe	170	2	0
155	Guam	169	2	7
156	Afghanistan	157	-6	-37
157	Myanmar	155	1	0
158	Bermuda	154	1	0
159	Dominican Republic	150	-5	-30
160	Guyana	144	1	0
161	Malta	143	1	0
162	Maldives	140	-2	-10
163	Grenada	139	0	0
164	Gambia	135	0	0
164	Liechtenstein	135	0	0
166	American Samoa	128	1	0
166	Cook Islands	128	1	0
166	Samoa	128	1	0
169	Timor-Leste	127	1	0
170	Malaysia	126	0	-1
171	Mauritius	120	3	1
171	Puerto Rico	120	1	0
173	Comoros	119	-1	-1
174	Yemen	114	0	-5
175	India	111	-9	-21
176	Dominica	107	0	0
177	Laos	88	0	0
177	US Virgin Islands	88	0	0
179	Indonesia	84	0	0
180	Cambodia	83	0	0
181	Chinese Taipei	80	1	2
181	New Caledonia	80	0	0
183	Brunei Darussalam	74	2	0
184	Pakistan	72	0	-4
185	Bangladesh	71	-3	-7
186	Fiji	68	0	0
187	Montserrat	67	0	0
188	Suriname	57	3	2
189	Seychelles	56	0	0
189	Tahiti	56	0	0
191	Bhutan	49	-3	-15
192	Vanuatu	47	1	0
193	Nepal	46	-1	-3
194	Macau	44	1	0
195	Cayman Islands	42	1	0
196	Sri Lanka	40	-2	-5
197	Turks and Caicos Islands	33	0	0
198	San Marino	28	0	0
199	British Virgin Islands	27	0	0
200	Solomon Islands	26	0	0
201	Andorra	6	0	0
201	Mongolia	6	0	0
203	Papua New Guinea	4	0	0
204	Anguilla	0	0	0
204	Bahamas	0	0	0
204	Djibouti	0	0	0
204	Eritrea	0	0	0
204	Somalia	0	0	0
204	Tonga	0	0	0

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