FIFA Ranking: October 2016 final preview

2 matches left before the deadline - both friendlies (actually AFF Championship qualifiers).

FIFA will publish the ranking on 20 October.


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

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

Cambodia	104	129	178	166
Laos	96	128	180	166
Timor-Leste	74	109	187	174
Brunei Darussalam	32	108	197	174

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

Best movers:

49 - Montenegro
45 - Curaçao, Azerbaijan
37 - Faroe Islands

Worst movers:

-52 - Cyprus
-28 - New Zealand
-21 - Latvia

Best movers in the top 50:

10 - Iran
7 - Senegal, Serbia, Egypt

Worst movers in the top 50:

-15 - Russia
-13 - Scotland
-7 - Czech Republic, Albania


Nine teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Poland (15 - 16 in September 2007)
Iceland (21 - 22 in July 2016)
Guinea-Bissau (69 - 73 in September 2016)
St. Kitts and Nevis (73 - 77 in September 2016)
Curaçao (77 - 118 in July 1995)
Kyrgyzstan (99 - 100 in April 2016)
Comoros (143 - 152 in September 2016)
Papua New Guinea (159 - 160 in June 2004)
Kosovo (164 - 168 in September 2016)

Faroe Islands will return to their best ever ranking (74th - July 2015).

Fifteen teams will drop to new lows:

Denmark (50 - 46 in September 2016)
Russia (53 - 40 in December 1998)
Norway (81 - 76 in September 2014)
Finland (101 - 96 in September 2012)
Oman (129 - 117 in July 2003)
Sudan (148 - 142 in July 2016)
FYR Macedonia (155 - 147 in May 1994)
Kuwait (at most 167 - 159 in September 2016)
Singapore (at most 170 - 165 in April 2013)
Moldova (at most 172 - 166 in July 2016)
Gambia (at most 174 - 169 in February 2015)
Malta (at most 177 - 176 in July 2016)
Liechtenstein (at most 183 - 182 in July 2016)
Bangladesh (at most 188 - 185 in September 2016)
Pakistan (at most 196 - 194 in July 2016)

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

Iran (27 - 23 in May 2006) - 10 years and 4 months
Senegal (32 - 28 in May 2006) - 10 years and 4 months
Uzbekistan (48 - 45 in January 2007) - 9 years and 8 months
Kenya (85 - 84 in January 2009) - 7 years and 8 months
India (137 - 132 in July 2010) - 6 years and 2 months
Benin (66 - 61 in August 2010) - 6 years and 1 month
Syria (96 - 94 in September 2010) - 6 years
Chinese Taipei (161 - 160 in May 2011) - 5 years and 4 months
Yemen (132 - 131 in June 2011) - 5 years and 3 months

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

Gabon (110 - 110 in September 2007) - 9 years
Ghana (45 - 47 in October 2007) - 8 years and 11 months
Zambia (93 - 97 in March 2011) - 5 years and 6 months

A couple of interesting overtakes:

Azerbaijan will be ranked above Bulgaria and Finland for the first time ever.
Congo DR will be ranked above Denmark and Russia for the first time ever.
Curaçao will be ranked above Canada and Honduras for the first time ever.
Faroe Islands will be ranked above Bulgaria, Israel and Norway for the first time ever.
Kyrgyzstan will be ranked above Jordan for the first time ever.
Palestine, Philippines and Turkmenistan will be ranked above Oman for the first time ever.
Uzbekistan will be ranked above Russia for the first time ever.
Tunisia will be ranked above Czech Republic for the first time in the last 21 years.
Korea Republic will be ranked above Denmark for the first time in the last 17 years and 9 months.
Poland will be ranked above Croatia for the first time in the last 11 years.
Iran will be ranked above Côte d'Ivoire for the first time in the last 10 years and 4 months.
Korea Republic will be ranked above Russia for the first time in the last 10 years and 4 months.
Senegal will be ranked above Russia for the first time in the last 10 years.

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

1	Argentina	1621	0	-25
2	Germany	1465	1	118
3	Brazil	1410	1	87
4	Belgium	1382	-2	13
5	Colombia	1361	-1	38
6	Chile	1273	0	-11
7	France	1271	1	83
8	Portugal	1231	-1	3
9	Uruguay	1175	0	2
10	Spain	1168	1	27
11	Wales	1113	-1	-48
12	England	1090	0	-40
13	Italy	1082	0	-42
14	Switzerland	1071	2	51
15	Poland	1029	2	45
16	Croatia	1027	-2	-32
17	Mexico	1001	-2	-56
18	Costa Rica	971	0	28
19	Ecuador	932	0	15
20	Netherlands	901	4	40
21	Iceland	898	6	69
22	Hungary	891	-2	-22
23	Peru	865	2	24
24	USA	852	-2	-22
25	Turkey	843	-4	-42
26	Slovakia	840	2	20
27	Iran	837	10	125
28	Bosnia and Herzegovina	807	-5	-56
29	Ukraine	803	0	4
30	Austria	792	-4	-47
31	Côte d'Ivoire	790	3	38
32	Senegal	783	7	99
33	Republic of Ireland	776	-2	2
34	Romania	746	-2	-27
35	Algeria	741	0	-8
36	Northern Ireland	739	-6	-59
37	Paraguay	738	-1	18
38	Tunisia	721	4	59
39	Sweden	715	2	38
40	Australia	663	5	20
40	Czech Republic	663	-7	-99
42	Greece	656	6	34
43	Serbia	650	7	48
44	Korea Republic	640	3	6
45	Ghana	628	-2	-30
46	Egypt	626	7	39
47	Albania	619	-7	-59
48	Uzbekistan	617	1	-4
49	Congo DR	609	2	20
50	Denmark	606	-4	-31
51	Japan	601	5	27
52	Slovenia	595	15	93
53	Russia	594	-15	-91
54	Saudi Arabia	593	-2	5
55	Congo	575	-1	-10
56	Montenegro	570	49	244
57	Scotland	569	-13	-83
58	Mali	568	-3	-12
59	Cameroon	567	0	2
60	Morocco	562	-2	-8
60	Nigeria	562	4	28
62	South Africa	559	0	20
63	Panama	551	-1	12
64	Guinea	539	-3	-10
65	Trinidad and Tobago	533	4	43
66	Benin	525	5	42
67	Burkina Faso	519	0	17
68	Venezuela	516	-8	-46
69	Guinea-Bissau	515	4	41
70	United Arab Emirates	513	-4	9
71	Cape Verde Islands	508	1	33
72	Uganda	500	-7	-9
73	St. Kitts and Nevis	472	4	15
74	Faroe Islands	469	37	150
75	Jamaica	464	5	34
76	Libya	461	0	-5
77	Belarus	452	-20	-121
77	Curaçao	452	45	153
79	Israel	450	19	104
80	Bolivia	444	-5	-24
81	Norway	438	-11	-49
82	Antigua and Barbuda	435	7	54
83	Guatemala	434	-4	-9
84	China PR	419	-6	-26
85	Kenya	416	6	38
86	Honduras	411	-4	-10
87	Haiti	405	6	33
88	Azerbaijan	404	45	152
89	Bulgaria	395	-15	-75
90	Kazakhstan	386	-7	-25
91	Qatar	385	-6	-4
92	Equatorial Guinea	380	-11	-44
93	Zambia	377	-1	0
94	Togo	375	6	41
95	Mozambique	359	-6	-22
96	Syria	357	18	42
97	Sierra Leone	352	-4	-20
98	Lithuania	347	19	36
99	Kyrgyzstan	343	9	19
100	Malawi	338	-1	-4
101	Finland	337	-17	-72
102	Chad	334	3	8
103	Botswana	332	-6	-16
103	Jordan	332	-17	-55
103	Liberia	332	0	3
106	Swaziland	330	-6	-4
107	Central African Republic	325	15	26
107	Nicaragua	325	-5	-5
107	Rwanda	325	0	0
110	Canada	323	-7	-6
110	Gabon	323	-2	-1
112	Zimbabwe	316	1	0
113	Iraq	314	15	35
114	Turkmenistan	309	2	-3
115	Mauritania	308	-19	-41
116	Latvia	306	-21	-51
116	New Zealand	306	-28	-76
118	Namibia	300	3	-1
119	Estonia	299	11	25
120	Palestine	285	-2	-17
121	Dominican Republic	281	-7	-34
122	Georgia	276	15	36
123	Bahrain	272	3	-12
124	Philippines	271	1	-26
125	Armenia	270	-13	-47
126	Ethiopia	267	0	-17
126	Korea DPR	267	-8	-35
128	Niger	262	-6	-37
129	Oman	260	-19	-63
130	Luxembourg	252	15	39
131	Guyana	247	-13	-55
132	Yemen	244	15	34
133	Madagascar	243	-2	-26
134	Angola	236	0	-11
135	El Salvador	232	5	4
136	Vietnam	231	5	6
137	India	230	11	25
138	Burundi	229	-9	-49
139	Cyprus	228	-52	-156
140	Hong Kong	227	2	6
140	Tajikistan	227	4	12
142	Cuba	226	-3	-3
143	Comoros	223	9	32
144	Tanzania	212	-12	-52
145	Afghanistan	208	4	7
146	Thailand	207	-11	-39
147	Suriname	205	28	105
148	Sudan	204	-13	-42
149	Lebanon	202	-6	-16
150	Lesotho	201	0	1
151	Mauritius	194	2	10
151	Puerto Rico	194	-13	-40
153	São Tomé e Príncipe	177	-2	-20
154	Grenada	172	2	0
155	FYR Macedonia	167	-9	-44
156	Myanmar	165	-3	-19
157	Barbados	163	0	-8
158	Maldives	161	7	14
159	Papua New Guinea	152	3	0
160	Aruba	147	0	-8
161	Chinese Taipei	145	17	48
162	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	142	2	-6
163	Belize	141	3	0
164	Kosovo	135	4	0
164	Malaysia	135	-6	-23
166	New Caledonia	128	-4	-24
167	Kuwait	123	-8	-33
167	South Sudan	123	0	-15
167	St. Lucia	123	4	6
170	Singapore	122	-15	-54
171	Tahiti	120	1	4
172	Moldova	119	-11	-35
173	Dominica	110	-3	-14
174	Gambia	106	-5	-23
175	Cambodia	104	-2	1
176	Vanuatu	103	-3	0
177	Malta	97	-1	-2
178	Laos	96	-2	-3
179	Bhutan	93	10	28
179	Fiji	93	0	0
179	Indonesia	93	2	4
182	Guam	86	-2	-5
183	Liechtenstein	82	-1	-4
184	Seychelles	79	4	7
185	Bermuda	77	-1	0
186	Nepal	74	0	0
186	Timor-Leste	74	-3	-6
188	Bangladesh	73	-3	-2
189	American Samoa	64	1	0
189	Cook Islands	64	1	0
189	Samoa	64	1	0
192	Solomon Islands	56	-6	-18
193	Sri Lanka	48	0	-4
194	US Virgin Islands	44	1	0
195	Macau	40	0	-4
196	Pakistan	39	-2	-7
197	Brunei Darussalam	32	0	-1
198	Montserrat	30	0	0
199	Cayman Islands	21	0	0
200	Turks and Caicos Islands	20	0	0
201	San Marino	17	0	0
202	Mongolia	13	0	0
203	Andorra	11	0	0
203	British Virgin Islands	11	0	0
205	Anguilla	0	0	0
205	Bahamas	0	0	0
205	Djibouti	0	0	0
205	Eritrea	0	0	0
205	Gibraltar	0	0	0
205	Somalia	0	0	0
205	Tonga	0	0	0

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