FIFA Ranking: March 2017 preview

With only 3 matches left (all friendlies) this will most likely be the final preview for March.

FIFA will publish the ranking on 9 March.

Those 3 matches include the battle of the giants: San Marino vs. Andorra.

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



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

Ecuador	859	885	24	22
Honduras	517	565	69	63
Jamaica	436	465	79	76
San Marino	17	41	203	196
Andorra	10	29	204	200

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

Best movers:

9 - Suriname
7 - Rwanda
5 - Guyana

Worst movers:

-13 - Myanmar
-9 - Lebanon
-6 - Palestine, Laos, Guam

Best movers in the top 50:

4 - Czech Republic
3 - Egypt, Senegal
2 - Poland, Burkina Faso, Ghana

Worst movers in the top 50:

-3 - Greece
-2 - Iceland, Turkey

Two teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Poland (12 - 14 in February 2017)
Burkina Faso (36 - 37 in October 2010)

Two teams will return to their best ever ranking:

St. Kitts and Nevis (73 - 73 in October 2016)
Kosovo (164 - 164 in October 2016)

One team will return to its worst ever ranking:

Sweden (45 - 45 in March 2015)

Four teams will drop to new lows:

FYR Macedonia (166 - 165 in February 2017)
Gambia (179 - 178 in February 2017)
Bangladesh (193 - 190 in January 2017)
Sri Lanka (197 - 196 in January 2017)


Poland will be ranked above England for the first time ever.
Senegal will be ranked above USA for the first time ever.
Egypt will be ranked above Netherlands for the first time in the last 18 years and 10 months.

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

1	Argentina	1644	0	9
2	Brazil	1534	0	5
3	Germany	1443	0	10
4	Chile	1389	0	3
5	Belgium	1379	0	8
6	France	1318	0	5
7	Colombia	1312	0	8
8	Portugal	1240	0	0
9	Uruguay	1200	0	5
10	Spain	1162	0	-6
11	Switzerland	1138	0	-2
12	Poland	1121	2	20
12	Wales	1121	0	1
14	England	1114	-1	1
15	Italy	1095	0	8
16	Croatia	1042	0	3
17	Mexico	1026	0	10
18	Peru	965	0	0
19	Costa Rica	953	0	5
20	Egypt	904	3	23
21	Netherlands	900	0	7
22	Iceland	875	-2	-24
23	Republic of Ireland	860	2	6
24	Ecuador	859	-2	-28
25	Slovakia	853	1	10
26	Turkey	851	-2	-6
27	Hungary	834	0	4
28	Senegal	831	3	32
29	Bosnia and Herzegovina	826	-1	-1
30	USA	818	-1	0
31	Ukraine	798	-1	-7
32	Cameroon	795	1	-1
33	Iran	794	-1	-4
34	Austria	793	0	10
35	Northern Ireland	786	0	14
36	Burkina Faso	778	2	42
37	Tunisia	774	-1	5
38	Congo DR	750	-1	0
39	Romania	703	1	15
40	Korea Republic	691	-1	0
41	Nigeria	685	0	-1
42	Czech Republic	684	4	15
43	Ghana	683	2	8
43	Paraguay	683	-1	0
45	Sweden	682	-1	3
46	Greece	679	-3	-3
47	Côte d'Ivoire	663	0	1
48	Denmark	662	1	5
49	Morocco	661	-1	1
50	Algeria	645	0	1
51	Japan	631	1	2
52	Serbia	629	-1	-8
53	Panama	627	0	3
54	Albania	623	1	5
55	Australia	622	-1	1
56	Israel	617	4	23
57	Saudi Arabia	610	-1	-3
58	Slovenia	609	-1	0
59	Venezuela	601	0	4
60	Russia	591	1	-1
61	Mali	586	-3	-14
62	South Africa	567	0	4
63	Uzbekistan	561	0	7
64	Montenegro	546	0	-3
65	Benin	531	1	0
66	Scotland	524	1	-3
67	United Arab Emirates	521	1	-3
68	Haiti	518	1	0
69	Honduras	517	-4	-30
70	Guinea	501	0	3
71	Bulgaria	489	0	-3
72	Belarus	472	0	2
73	St. Kitts and Nevis	469	4	26
74	Curaçao	467	-1	0
74	Uganda	467	1	3
76	Cape Verde Islands	460	-2	-6
77	Congo	455	-1	0
78	Guatemala	445	1	3
79	Jamaica	436	-2	-7
80	Guinea-Bissau	434	0	0
81	Norway	428	0	2
82	Faroe Islands	422	0	0
83	Trinidad and Tobago	421	1	0
84	Qatar	415	1	-3
85	Armenia	414	-3	-8
86	China PR	407	0	3
87	Gabon	399	0	7
88	Kenya	392	-1	0
89	Azerbaijan	380	0	-8
90	Antigua and Barbuda	370	0	0
91	Zambia	368	0	0
92	Libya	366	0	0
93	Rwanda	364	7	19
94	Kazakhstan	357	2	5
95	Sierra Leone	355	-1	0
95	Syria	355	-2	-2
97	Bolivia	354	-2	0
98	Swaziland	351	0	2
99	Finland	342	-2	-8
99	Namibia	342	0	-5
101	Togo	339	0	0
102	Liberia	338	0	0
103	Malawi	336	1	4
104	Ethiopia	335	-1	0
105	Mozambique	334	0	4
106	Mauritania	331	1	5
107	Zimbabwe	330	-2	0
108	Lithuania	326	1	2
109	Central African Republic	325	-1	0
110	Equatorial Guinea	322	0	0
111	Latvia	312	2	6
112	El Salvador	306	2	4
112	New Zealand	306	-1	-5
114	Cyprus	301	2	7
115	Jordan	300	-3	-7
116	Botswana	298	-1	-1
117	Canada	292	0	0
117	Nicaragua	292	0	0
119	Estonia	291	0	0
120	Suriname	284	9	39
121	Korea DPR	282	-1	1
122	Iraq	274	0	1
122	Oman	274	-1	-3
124	Philippines	271	-2	-2
125	Kyrgyzstan	265	-1	0
126	Georgia	261	-1	-2
127	Bahrain	254	-1	-1
127	Thailand	254	0	1
129	Dominican Republic	242	2	0
129	Niger	242	3	1
131	Guyana	236	5	17
132	India	233	-2	-11
133	Tajikistan	231	0	0
134	Palestine	229	-6	-17
135	Luxembourg	227	-1	-3
136	Vietnam	222	0	3
137	Madagascar	220	-2	0
138	Sudan	217	1	0
139	Burundi	215	-1	-3
140	Maldives	206	0	-1
141	Lesotho	205	2	3
142	Comoros	202	-1	-3
142	Hong Kong	202	0	-1
144	Turkmenistan	200	0	0
145	Puerto Rico	194	0	0
146	Mauritius	191	1	0
147	Angola	187	1	3
148	Yemen	186	0	2
149	Tahiti	184	-1	0
150	Chad	179	1	0
151	São Tomé e Príncipe	177	2	0
152	Belize	176	2	0
153	Cuba	175	2	0
154	Barbados	174	2	4
155	Lebanon	172	-9	-21
156	Afghanistan	170	-5	-9
157	Tanzania	157	1	5
158	Grenada	152	1	2
159	Chinese Taipei	149	-2	-4
160	Aruba	147	1	0
161	Malaysia	146	1	0
162	Moldova	139	1	-6
163	Singapore	138	1	0
164	Kosovo	135	1	0
165	Kuwait	133	2	-1
166	FYR Macedonia	130	-1	-5
167	Indonesia	123	2	0
167	New Caledonia	123	2	0
167	South Sudan	123	2	0
170	Nepal	122	3	2
170	Papua New Guinea	122	2	0
172	Myanmar	120	-13	-30
173	Cambodia	116	2	0
173	Laos	116	-6	-18
175	Dominica	114	1	0
176	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	112	-2	-5
177	Bhutan	110	0	0
178	St. Lucia	108	2	5
179	Gambia	106	-1	0
179	Vanuatu	106	-1	0
181	Fiji	102	0	0
182	Malta	87	1	2
183	Bermuda	86	4	9
184	Brunei Darussalam	82	0	0
184	Liechtenstein	82	3	5
184	Macau	82	0	0
187	Seychelles	78	-1	0
188	Guam	76	-6	-13
188	Solomon Islands	76	-1	0
190	American Samoa	64	1	0
190	Cook Islands	64	1	0
190	Samoa	64	1	0
193	Bangladesh	57	-3	-13
194	Timor-Leste	53	0	0
195	US Virgin Islands	44	0	0
196	Mongolia	34	1	-4
197	Sri Lanka	33	-1	-10
198	Pakistan	32	0	-1
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	British Virgin Islands	11	1	0
204	Andorra	10	-1	-2
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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