FIFA Ranking: February 2016 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on 4 February.

6 matches left - all friendlies. 4 of them are actually the CHAN 2016 quarterfinals.

This is how the points and ranks could change for these 12 teams:



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

Côte d'Ivoire	802	828	30	28
USA	770	793	35	32
Iceland	724	763	38	36
Tunisia	603	627	48	44
Cameroon	547	576	62	55
Guinea	543	567	62	57
Egypt	537	571	63	55
Congo DR	534	550	63	59
Mali	485	510	76	68
Zambia	476	495	76	74
Rwanda	402	426	85	80
Libya	324	360	105	94

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

Best movers:

20 - Palestine
19 - Saudi Arabia
17 - Korea DPR

Worst movers:

-23 - Zimbabwe
-13 - Nicaragua, Libya

Best movers in the top 50:

6 - Costa Rica, Cape Verde Islands
5 - Scotland

Worst movers in the top 50:

-9 - Côte d'Ivoire
-8 - Algeria, Ghana, Guinea

Two teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Hungary (19 - 20 in January 2016)
Kyrgyzstan (at least 106 - 107 in January 2016)

Two will return to their worst ever ranking:

Zimbabwe (131 - 131 in October 2009)
Moldova (155 - 155 in December 2015)

One will drop to new lows:

Lithuania (128 - 127 in January 2016)

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

Turkmenistan (115 - 112 in November 2005) - 10 years and 3 months
Swaziland (127 - 123 in July 2008) - 7 years and 7 months
Qatar (78 - 78 in November 2008) - 7 years and 3 months
Saudi Arabia (at least 56 - 56 in June 2009) - 6 years and 8 months

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

Angola (112 - 116 in October 1994) - 21 years and 4 months
Bahrain (130 - 138 in January 2001) - 15 years and 1 month
Ghana (41 - 43 in January 2008) - 8 years and 1 month
Zimbabwe (131 - 131 in October 2009) - 6 years and 4 months

Hungary will be ranked above Côte d'Ivoire for the first time in the last 11 years and 9 months.
Thailand will be ranked above Bahrain for the first time in the last 11 years and 9 months.
Saudi Arabia will be ranked above Nigeria for the first time in the last 10 years and 5 months.
Turkmenistan will be ranked above Azerbaijan for the first time in the last 10 years and 3 months.

February 2016 rank - Team - February 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	1293	0	24
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	987	0	7
17	Wales	974	0	0
18	Croatia	958	0	0
19	Hungary	945	1	0
20	Turkey	933	1	0
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	905	1	0
22	Mexico	898	1	0
23	Russia	895	1	0
24	France	868	1	0
25	Czech Republic	860	1	0
25	Slovakia	860	1	0
27	Ukraine	842	2	0
28	Northern Ireland	825	2	0
29	Republic of Ireland	810	2	0
30	Côte d'Ivoire	802	-11	-148
31	Costa Rica	799	6	40
32	Cape Verde Islands	790	7	45
33	Poland	787	2	18
34	Sweden	771	0	0
35	USA	770	-3	-14
36	Albania	746	2	0
36	Algeria	746	-8	-99
38	Iceland	724	-2	-37
39	Greece	706	2	0
40	Denmark	692	2	7
41	Ghana	691	-8	-85
42	Paraguay	652	4	0
43	Peru	644	4	0
44	Iran	626	-1	-46
45	Senegal	621	0	-40
46	Scotland	609	6	0
47	Finland	606	-3	-57
48	Tunisia	603	-8	-108
49	Trinidad and Tobago	598	1	-25
50	Norway	597	4	6
51	Jamaica	590	4	0
51	Serbia	590	4	0
53	Korea Republic	580	-2	-37
54	Congo	579	-6	-59
55	Saudi Arabia	571	20	97
56	Japan	569	-3	-38
57	Slovenia	565	4	0
58	Panama	564	7	20
59	Cameroon	547	-2	-39
60	Guinea	543	-11	-81
60	Nigeria	543	6	3
62	Egypt	537	-4	-48
63	Congo DR	534	-3	-46
64	Equatorial Guinea	530	5	26
65	Haiti	520	14	67
65	United Arab Emirates	520	-1	-27
67	Belarus	514	1	0
68	Australia	510	-9	-73
69	Uganda	503	-7	-50
70	Uzbekistan	502	3	13
71	Bolivia	500	-1	0
72	Israel	498	-1	0
72	South Africa	498	2	12
74	Bulgaria	494	-2	0
75	Mali	485	-12	-67
76	Zambia	476	-9	-40
77	Benin	458	1	0
78	Qatar	444	6	40
79	Cyprus	441	1	0
80	Morocco	425	-4	-44
81	Venezuela	423	2	11
82	Jordan	418	4	20
83	Gabon	416	-6	-52
84	Montenegro	403	1	0
85	Burkina Faso	402	4	17
85	Canada	402	3	14
85	Rwanda	402	6	27
88	Estonia	379	2	0
89	Iraq	372	-2	-23
90	Antigua and Barbuda	371	2	0
91	Honduras	370	7	21
92	Botswana	367	3	4
93	China PR	365	-11	-48
94	Faroe Islands	357	2	0
95	Korea DPR	350	18	49
96	Guatemala	347	-3	-21
97	Oman	345	2	1
98	El Salvador	344	1	0
99	Kenya	339	2	0
100	Latvia	338	2	0
101	Liberia	337	2	0
102	Mozambique	334	7	18
103	Togo	329	-10	-39
104	Malawi	327	2	0
105	Kyrgyzstan	324	2	0
105	Libya	324	-24	-103
107	Mauritania	320	4	18
108	Burundi	316	2	9
109	Nicaragua	311	-13	-46
110	Niger	308	-7	-29
111	Palestine	307	20	40
112	Angola	306	-7	-27
113	Central African Republic	302	-2	0
114	Chad	301	-1	0
115	Aruba	298	0	0
115	Turkmenistan	298	2	4
117	Azerbaijan	296	-1	0
118	Sierra Leone	290	3	5
119	St. Kitts and Nevis	289	0	0
120	Belize	286	8	13
120	Georgia	286	0	0
120	Thailand	286	1	1
123	Armenia	285	-2	0
124	Ethiopia	284	-6	-7
125	Syria	278	0	0
125	Tanzania	278	1	1
127	Swaziland	277	6	12
128	Lithuania	274	-1	0
129	Madagascar	272	0	0
130	Bahrain	269	-9	-16
131	Kazakhstan	266	1	0
131	Zimbabwe	266	-23	-56
133	Kuwait	265	8	23
134	Namibia	264	-1	-1
134	Philippines	264	1	0
136	Sudan	261	-6	-10
137	Hong Kong	259	-1	0
138	FYR Macedonia	257	0	0
139	Cuba	250	-3	-9
140	Lebanon	246	0	1
140	South Sudan	246	-1	0
142	Luxembourg	237	0	0
143	Barbados	227	2	13
144	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	221	-1	0
145	St. Lucia	216	-1	0
146	Vietnam	209	0	0
147	Guinea-Bissau	207	0	0
148	Singapore	196	0	0
148	Tajikistan	196	0	0
150	Curaçao	192	0	0
150	New Zealand	192	0	0
152	Myanmar	189	6	34
153	Lesotho	186	-1	0
154	Afghanistan	183	-1	0
155	Moldova	170	-1	-2
156	Guam	169	0	0
157	Maldives	162	0	3
158	Bermuda	154	1	0
159	São Tomé e Príncipe	152	-4	-18
160	Dominican Republic	150	0	0
161	Malta	143	1	0
162	Grenada	139	1	0
162	Guyana	139	-1	-5
162	India	139	1	0
165	Gambia	135	0	0
165	Liechtenstein	135	0	0
167	American Samoa	128	0	0
167	Cook Islands	128	0	0
167	Samoa	128	0	0
170	Timor-Leste	127	0	0
171	Malaysia	126	0	0
172	Mauritius	120	0	0
172	Puerto Rico	120	0	0
174	Comoros	119	0	0
175	Yemen	113	0	-1
176	Dominica	107	0	0
177	Bangladesh	100	2	13
178	Laos	88	-1	0
178	US Virgin Islands	88	-1	0
180	Indonesia	86	0	2
181	Chinese Taipei	80	1	0
181	New Caledonia	80	1	0
183	Cambodia	79	-2	-4
184	Brunei Darussalam	74	0	0
185	Pakistan	72	0	0
186	Fiji	68	0	0
187	Montserrat	67	0	0
188	Nepal	66	8	25
189	Sri Lanka	58	-1	-3
190	Suriname	57	-1	0
191	Seychelles	56	-1	0
191	Tahiti	56	-1	0
193	Bhutan	49	-1	0
194	Vanuatu	47	-1	0
195	Macau	44	-1	0
196	Cayman Islands	42	-1	0
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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