FIFA Ranking: February 2017 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on 9 February.

3 matches left: a friendly and the final and 3rd place match of the 2017 AFCON.



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

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

Egypt	881	951	23	19
USA	802	818	30	29
Cameroon	706	796	39	33
Ghana	675	755	45	36
Burkina Faso	656	736	49	37
Jamaica	443	482	77	72

 

In the table below I've used the minimum points.

Best movers:

24 - El Salvador
23 - Cameroon
20 - Gabon

Worst movers:

-12 - Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau
-11 - Algeria, Togo
-10 - Australia

Best movers in the top 50:

23 - Cameroon
12 - Egypt
11 - Congo DR

Worst movers in the top 50:

-12 - Côte d'Ivoire
-11 - Algeria
-10 - Australia

Four teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Poland (14 - 15 in October 2016)
Peru (18 - 19 in July 2013)
Congo DR (at least 38 - 46 in February 2015)
Curaçao (at least 74 - 75 in November 2016)

Five teams will drop to new lows:

Russia (61 - 56 in December 2016)
Angola (148 - 144 in November 2016)
FYR Macedonia (165 - 162 in November 2016)
Gambia (178 - 177 in January 2017)
Pakistan (198 - 197 in October 2016)

Congo DR will be ranked above Romania, Greece, Sweden and Czech Republic for the first time ever.
Burkina Faso will be ranked above Japan for the first time ever.
Panama, Mali and Venezuela will be ranked above Russia for the first time ever.
Congo DR will be ranked above Côte d'Ivoire for the first time in the last 12 years and 8 months.
Korea Republic will be ranked above Côte d'Ivoire for the first time in the last 10 years and 9 months.
Morocco will be ranked above Serbia and Russia for the first time in the last 10 years and 9 months.

February 2017 rank - Team - February 2017 points - +/- Ranking - +/- Points
 

1	Argentina	1635	0	1
2	Brazil	1529	0	-15
3	Germany	1433	0	0
4	Chile	1386	0	-18
5	Belgium	1371	0	3
6	France	1313	1	8
7	Colombia	1304	-1	-41
8	Portugal	1240	0	11
9	Uruguay	1195	0	8
10	Spain	1168	0	2
11	Switzerland	1140	0	11
12	Wales	1120	0	-1
13	England	1113	0	-1
14	Poland	1101	1	14
15	Italy	1087	1	4
16	Croatia	1039	-2	-64
17	Mexico	1016	1	4
18	Peru	965	1	0
19	Costa Rica	948	-2	-93
20	Iceland	899	1	10
21	Netherlands	893	1	6
22	Ecuador	887	-2	-3
23	Egypt	881	12	155
24	Turkey	857	0	6
25	Republic of Ireland	854	-2	-4
26	Slovakia	843	-1	6
27	Hungary	830	-1	4
28	Bosnia and Herzegovina	827	-1	2
29	Ukraine	805	1	1
30	USA	802	-2	-20
31	Iran	798	-2	-18
31	Senegal	798	2	55
33	Austria	783	-2	10
34	Northern Ireland	772	-2	5
35	Tunisia	769	1	56
36	Congo DR	750	13	120
37	Cameroon	706	25	154
38	Korea Republic	691	-1	-8
39	Romania	688	-1	-2
40	Nigeria	686	10	67
41	Paraguay	683	-1	-1
42	Greece	682	0	8
43	Sweden	679	-2	4
44	Ghana	675	10	65
45	Czech Republic	669	-2	-2
46	Côte d'Ivoire	662	-12	-71
47	Morocco	660	10	73
48	Denmark	657	-1	14
49	Burkina Faso	656	4	45
50	Algeria	644	-11	-43
51	Serbia	637	-6	-10
52	Japan	629	-6	-15
53	Panama	624	5	42
54	Australia	621	-10	-28
55	Albania	618	-4	0
56	Saudi Arabia	613	-8	-28
57	Slovenia	609	-5	-7
58	Mali	600	6	56
59	Venezuela	597	0	16
60	Israel	594	-5	-1
61	Russia	592	-5	0
62	South Africa	563	-2	-9
63	Uzbekistan	554	-2	-14
64	Montenegro	549	-1	0
65	Honduras	547	10	80
66	Benin	531	0	0
67	Scotland	527	0	3
68	United Arab Emirates	524	-4	-20
69	Haiti	518	0	6
70	Guinea	498	0	-9
71	Bulgaria	492	1	0
72	Belarus	470	2	0
73	Curaçao	467	2	0
74	Cape Verde Islands	466	5	17
75	Uganda	464	-2	-12
76	Congo	455	-5	-49
77	Jamaica	443	0	-20
77	St. Kitts and Nevis	443	3	0
79	Guatemala	442	-1	-9
80	Guinea-Bissau	434	-12	-81
81	Norway	426	3	8
82	Armenia	422	4	10
82	Faroe Islands	422	0	0
84	Trinidad and Tobago	421	-1	0
85	Qatar	418	0	2
86	China PR	404	-5	-20
87	Zambia	395	1	0
88	Gabon	392	20	79
88	Kenya	392	-1	-4
90	Azerbaijan	388	0	2
91	Antigua and Barbuda	370	1	0
92	Libya	366	-3	-24
93	Syria	357	3	2
94	Sierra Leone	355	2	0
95	Bolivia	354	0	-5
96	Kazakhstan	352	2	-2
97	Finland	350	-4	-18
98	Swaziland	349	1	1
99	Namibia	347	1	2
100	Rwanda	345	-7	-23
101	Togo	339	-11	-47
102	Liberia	338	-1	0
103	Ethiopia	335	9	38
104	Malawi	332	-2	0
105	Mozambique	330	1	8
105	Zimbabwe	330	-2	0
107	Mauritania	326	6	30
108	Central African Republic	325	-4	0
109	Lithuania	324	-4	0
110	Equatorial Guinea	322	5	29
111	New Zealand	311	-2	0
112	Jordan	307	-5	-11
113	Latvia	306	-3	2
114	El Salvador	302	24	86
115	Botswana	299	-2	3
116	Cyprus	294	0	4
117	Canada	292	3	10
117	Nicaragua	292	-6	-7
119	Estonia	291	-2	2
120	Korea DPR	281	5	18
121	Oman	277	-3	-10
122	Iraq	273	-3	-10
122	Philippines	273	0	0
124	Kyrgyzstan	265	0	0
125	Georgia	263	-4	-18
126	Bahrain	255	-3	-13
127	Thailand	253	-1	2
128	Palestine	246	3	13
129	Suriname	245	-1	0
130	India	244	-1	1
131	Dominican Republic	242	-1	0
132	Niger	241	-5	-7
133	Tajikistan	231	-1	0
134	Luxembourg	230	-1	0
135	Madagascar	220	0	0
136	Guyana	219	-2	-2
136	Vietnam	219	0	1
138	Burundi	218	1	5
139	Sudan	217	-2	0
140	Maldives	207	5	13
141	Comoros	205	0	0
142	Hong Kong	203	-2	-7
143	Lesotho	202	-1	0
144	Turkmenistan	200	-1	0
145	Puerto Rico	194	0	0
146	Lebanon	193	2	4
147	Mauritius	191	0	0
148	Angola	184	-4	-15
148	Tahiti	184	1	0
148	Yemen	184	1	0
151	Afghanistan	179	0	0
151	Chad	179	0	0
153	São Tomé e Príncipe	177	0	0
154	Belize	176	9	35
155	Cuba	175	-1	0
156	Barbados	170	-1	7
157	Chinese Taipei	153	0	0
158	Tanzania	152	-2	-3
159	Grenada	150	-1	0
159	Myanmar	150	0	2
161	Aruba	147	-1	0
162	Malaysia	146	-1	3
163	Moldova	145	1	7
164	Singapore	138	1	2
165	FYR Macedonia	135	-3	-7
165	Kosovo	135	1	0
167	Kuwait	134	1	11
167	Laos	134	0	0
169	Indonesia	123	4	3
169	New Caledonia	123	-1	0
169	South Sudan	123	-1	0
172	Papua New Guinea	122	-1	0
173	Nepal	120	2	8
174	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	117	6	15
175	Cambodia	116	-3	-5
176	Dominica	114	-2	1
177	Bhutan	110	-1	0
178	Gambia	106	-1	0
178	Vanuatu	106	-1	0
180	St. Lucia	103	-1	0
181	Fiji	102	-1	0
182	Guam	89	0	0
183	Malta	85	0	0
184	Brunei Darussalam	82	5	8
184	Macau	82	0	0
186	Seychelles	78	-1	0
187	Bermuda	77	-1	0
187	Liechtenstein	77	1	2
189	Solomon Islands	76	-3	0
190	Bangladesh	70	0	1
191	American Samoa	64	0	0
191	Cook Islands	64	0	0
191	Samoa	64	0	0
194	Timor-Leste	53	-3	-11
195	US Virgin Islands	44	0	0
196	Sri Lanka	43	0	0
197	Mongolia	38	1	0
198	Pakistan	33	-1	-7
199	Montserrat	30	0	0
200	Cayman Islands	21	0	0
201	Turks and Caicos Islands	20	0	0
202	San Marino	17	0	0
203	Andorra	12	0	0
204	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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