FIFA Ranking: April 2017 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on 6 April.

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Best movers:

33 - FYR Macedonia
31 - India
25 - Yemen

Worst movers:

-39 - Liberia
-27 - São Tomé e Príncipe
-26 - St. Kitts and Nevis

Best movers in the top 50:

11 - Sweden
9 - Northern Ireland
7 - USA, Greece, Japan

Worst movers in the top 50:

-11 - Netherlands
-8 - Romania
-6 - Uruguay, Ukraine

6 teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Poland (11 - 12 in March 2017)
Peru (17 - 18 in February 2017)
Burkina Faso (35 - 36 in March 2017)
Curaçao (70 - 73 in February 2017)
Swaziland (88 - 92 in October 1993)
Papua New Guinea (156 - 159 in October 2016)

Brazil will return to their best ever ranking.

Three teams will return to their worst ever ranking:

Russia (61 - 61 in February 2017)
Grenada (176 - 176 in December 2007)
Liechtenstein (189 - 189 in November 2016)
Somalia (206 - 206 in November 2014)

Ten teams will drop to new lows:

Netherlands (32 - 26 in July 2016)
Denmark (51 - 50 in October 2016)
Norway (86 - 84 in November 2016)
Latvia (124 - 119 in June 2013)
Sudan (154 - 148 in October 2016)
Pakistan (201 - 198 in February 2017)
British Virgin Islands (205 - 204 in July 2016)
Eritrea (206 - 205 in July 2016)
Gibraltar (206 - 205 in September 2016)
Tonga (206 - 205 in July 2016)

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

Syria (80 - 80 in November 1993) - 23 years and 5 months
India (101 - 101 in May 1996) - 20 years and 11 months
Namibia (95 - 93 in June 2001) - 15 years and 10 months
Kenya (78 - 68 in December 2008) - 8 years and 4 months
Brazil (1 - 1 in May 2010) - 6 years and 11 months
Andorra (187 - 184 in October 2008) - 8 years and 6 months
Yemen (123 - 121 in November 2010) - 6 years and 5 months
Egypt (19 - 10 in January 2011) - 6 years and 3 months
Djibouti (194 - 194 in July 2011) - 5 years and 9 months

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

Cuba (163 - 166 in September 1995) - 21 years and 7 months
Côte d'Ivoire (48 - 48 in October 2005) - 11 years and 6 months
Grenada (176 - 176 in January 2008) - 9 years and 3 months
Algeria (54 - 55 in March 2011) - 6 years and 1 month
US Virgin Islands (199 - 200 in May 2011) - 5 years and 11 months
Cape Verde Islands (82 - 91 in September 2011) - 5 years and 7 months
Burundi (141 - 143 in February 2012) - 5 years and 2 months

Netherlands will be ranked below Northern Ireland, Iran and Senegal for the first time ever.
Congo DR will be ranked above Tunisia for the first time ever.
Kenya and Syria will be ranked above Norway for the first time ever.
Mauritania and Namibia will be ranked above Finland for the first time ever.
India will be ranked above Canada, Latvia and Zimbabwe for the first time ever.
Bhutan will be ranked above Kuwait and Myanmar for the first time ever.

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

1	Brazil	1661	1	127
2	Argentina	1603	-1	-41
3	Germany	1464	0	21
4	Chile	1403	0	14
5	Colombia	1348	2	36
6	France	1294	0	-24
7	Belgium	1281	-2	-98
8	Portugal	1259	0	19
9	Switzerland	1212	2	74
10	Spain	1204	0	42
11	Poland	1183	1	62
12	Italy	1165	3	70
13	Wales	1119	-1	-2
14	England	1103	0	-11
15	Uruguay	1097	-6	-103
16	Mexico	1072	1	46
17	Peru	1042	1	77
18	Croatia	1016	-2	-26
19	Egypt	910	1	6
20	Costa Rica	902	-1	-51
21	Iceland	872	2	-3
22	Turkey	863	4	12
23	Slovakia	846	2	-7
23	USA	846	7	28
25	Ecuador	839	-3	-48
26	Northern Ireland	823	9	37
26	Republic of Ireland	823	-2	-37
28	Iran	820	5	26
29	Bosnia and Herzegovina	815	0	-11
30	Senegal	805	-2	-26
31	Hungary	801	-4	-33
32	Netherlands	792	-11	-108
33	Cameroon	779	-1	-16
34	Sweden	768	11	86
35	Burkina Faso	765	1	-13
36	Austria	762	-2	-31
37	Ukraine	761	-6	-37
38	Paraguay	738	5	55
39	Greece	730	7	51
40	Nigeria	726	1	41
41	Congo DR	712	-3	-38
42	Tunisia	701	-5	-73
43	Korea Republic	700	-3	9
44	Japan	685	7	54
45	Ghana	682	-2	-1
46	Czech Republic	679	-4	-5
47	Romania	676	-8	-27
48	Côte d'Ivoire	672	-1	9
49	Serbia	671	3	42
50	Australia	661	5	39
51	Denmark	657	-3	-5
52	Saudi Arabia	646	5	36
53	Morocco	633	-4	-28
54	Algeria	628	-4	-17
55	Bulgaria	614	16	125
55	Slovenia	614	3	5
57	Panama	607	-4	-20
58	Venezuela	595	1	-6
59	Scotland	589	8	65
60	Uzbekistan	586	3	25
61	Russia	561	-1	-30
62	Montenegro	560	2	14
63	Israel	557	-7	-60
64	South Africa	539	-2	-28
65	Haiti	537	4	19
66	Albania	533	-12	-90
67	Armenia	527	18	113
68	Honduras	524	-3	-14
69	Mali	504	-8	-82
70	Curaçao	492	4	25
71	Guinea	474	-1	-27
72	Uganda	463	2	-4
73	Jamaica	458	3	-7
74	Bolivia	453	23	99
74	United Arab Emirates	453	-6	-68
76	Trinidad and Tobago	446	7	25
77	Faroe Islands	431	5	9
78	Belarus	428	-6	-44
78	Kenya	428	10	36
80	Syria	426	15	71
81	China PR	425	5	18
82	Cape Verde Islands	418	-5	-42
83	Benin	396	-17	-135
84	Congo	392	-6	-63
84	Gabon	392	3	-7
86	Norway	387	-5	-41
87	Azerbaijan	386	2	6
88	Swaziland	378	10	27
89	Zambia	370	1	0
90	Qatar	369	-6	-46
91	Mauritania	366	15	35
92	Libya	361	0	-5
93	Guatemala	352	-14	-93
94	Antigua and Barbuda	349	-4	-21
95	Guinea-Bissau	346	-15	-88
95	Namibia	346	4	4
97	Cyprus	343	17	42
98	Finland	335	1	-7
99	St. Kitts and Nevis	334	-26	-135
100	Malawi	333	3	-3
101	Estonia	331	18	40
101	India	331	31	98
101	Lithuania	331	6	5
101	Nicaragua	331	17	39
105	Kazakhstan	325	-11	-32
106	Mozambique	323	-1	-11
106	Zimbabwe	323	3	0
108	Togo	320	-7	-19
109	El Salvador	317	3	11
110	Canada	312	7	19
111	Jordan	311	4	11
112	New Zealand	301	0	-5
113	Sierra Leone	300	-18	-55
114	Oman	290	8	16
115	Korea DPR	289	6	7
116	Equatorial Guinea	287	-6	-35
117	Rwanda	285	-24	-79
118	Suriname	284	2	0
119	Iraq	278	3	4
120	Botswana	276	-4	-22
120	Madagascar	276	17	56
122	Georgia	274	4	13
123	Yemen	266	25	80
124	Ethiopia	265	-20	-70
124	Latvia	265	-13	-47
124	Palestine	265	10	36
127	Philippines	251	-3	-20
128	Kyrgyzstan	249	-3	-16
129	Thailand	245	-2	-9
130	Central African Republic	239	-22	-86
131	Niger	235	-2	-7
132	Bahrain	232	-5	-22
133	FYR Macedonia	225	33	95
134	Puerto Rico	221	11	27
135	Tanzania	218	22	61
136	Vietnam	217	0	-5
137	Lebanon	216	18	44
138	Tajikistan	203	-5	-28
139	Guyana	194	-8	-42
140	Turkmenistan	193	4	-7
141	Burundi	192	-2	-23
141	Liberia	192	-39	-146
143	Comoros	190	-1	-12
144	Angola	189	3	2
145	Belize	188	7	12
146	Luxembourg	185	-11	-42
147	Dominican Republic	184	-18	-58
148	Lesotho	181	-7	-24
149	Chad	179	1	0
149	Hong Kong	179	-7	-23
151	Maldives	175	-11	-31
152	Tahiti	167	-3	-17
153	Afghanistan	161	3	-9
154	South Sudan	155	13	32
154	Sudan	155	-16	-62
156	Papua New Guinea	154	14	32
157	Malaysia	146	4	0
158	Moldova	142	4	3
159	Singapore	141	4	3
160	Mauritius	140	-14	-51
161	Chinese Taipei	136	-2	-13
162	Aruba	127	-2	-20
163	Cuba	124	-10	-51
164	Bhutan	123	13	13
165	New Caledonia	121	2	-2
166	Gambia	120	13	14
166	Kuwait	120	-1	-13
166	Myanmar	120	6	0
169	St. Lucia	114	9	6
170	Kosovo	112	-6	-23
170	Nepal	112	0	-10
172	Barbados	110	-18	-64
173	Cambodia	108	0	-8
174	Laos	107	-1	-9
175	Indonesia	105	-8	-18
176	Grenada	103	-18	-49
177	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	102	-1	-10
178	São Tomé e Príncipe	98	-27	-79
179	Vanuatu	93	0	-13
180	Solomon Islands	92	8	16
181	Fiji	90	0	-12
182	Malta	86	0	-1
183	Guam	82	6	6
184	Macau	77	0	-5
185	Bermuda	75	-2	-11
186	Dominica	67	-11	-47
187	Andorra	66	13	37
188	Brunei Darussalam	65	-4	-17
189	American Samoa	64	1	0
189	Cook Islands	64	1	0
189	Liechtenstein	64	-5	-18
189	Samoa	64	1	0
193	Bangladesh	60	0	3
194	Djibouti	53	11	53
195	Timor-Leste	52	-1	-1
196	Seychelles	45	-9	-33
197	Mongolia	34	-1	0
197	Sri Lanka	34	0	1
199	Montserrat	26	0	-4
199	US Virgin Islands	26	-4	-18
201	Pakistan	24	-3	-8
202	Turks and Caicos Islands	20	0	0
203	Cayman Islands	13	-2	-8
204	San Marino	12	-1	-5
205	British Virgin Islands	5	-1	-6
206	Anguilla	0	-1	0
206	Bahamas	0	-1	0
206	Eritrea	0	-1	0
206	Gibraltar	0	-1	0
206	Somalia	0	-1	0
206	Tonga	0	-1	0

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