FIFA Ranking: September 2017 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on 14 September.

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Best movers:

47 - Cape Verde Islands
35 - Luxembourg
32 - FYR Macedonia

Worst movers:

-31 - Guatemala
-24 - Ethiopia
-21 - Sierra Leone, Lithuania, Kazakhstan

Best movers in the top 50:

22 - Bolivia
20 - Denmark
15 - Montenegro, Scotland

Worst movers in the top 50:

-20 - Austria
-18 - Czech Republic
-14 - Congo DR, Algeria

Three teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Peru (12 - 14 in July 2017)
Northern Ireland (20 - 22 in July 2017)
Syria (75 - 77 in June 2017)

Two teams will return to their best ever ranking:

Germany (1 - 1 in July 2017)
Portugal (3 - 3 in May 2014)

Two teams will return to their worst ever ranking:

Italy (17 - 17 in October 2015)
Malta (191 - 191 in July 2017)

Five teams will drop to new lows:

Russia (64 - 63 in June 2017)
Latvia (148 - 131 in August 2017)
Kuwait (181 - 174 in August 2017)
Bangladesh (196 - 193 in May 2017)
Sri Lanka (198 - 197 in August 2017)

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

Luxembourg (101 - 97 in May 1996) - 21 years and 4 months
China PR (62 - 60 in September 2005) - 12 years
Bulgaria (38 - 38 in March 2010) - 7 years and 6 months
Cyprus (70 - 43 in September 2010) - 7 years

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

Czech Republic (58 - 59 in May 1994) - 23 years and 4 months
Botswana (146 - 153 in December 2001) - 15 years and 9 months
Algeria (62 - 66 in June 2009) - 8 years and 3 months
Hungary (59 - 62 in August 2010) - 7 years and 1 month
Ethiopia (144 - 144 in August 2010) - 7 years and 1 month
Trinidad and Tobago (99 - 106 in October 2010) - 6 years and 11 months
Aruba (179 - 200 in June 2011) - 6 years and 3 months
Bosnia and Herzegovina (36 - 39 in August 2011) - 6 years and 1 month
Mali (76 - 81 in August 2011) - 6 years and 1 month
Equatorial Guinea (135 - 151 in January 2012) - 5 years and 8 months
Colombia (10 - 22 in September 2012) - 5 years

Peru will be ranked above England and Italy for the first time ever.
Cyprus will be ranked above Norway for the first time ever.
Syria will be ranked above Israel for the first time ever.

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

1	Germany	1606	1	57
2	Brazil	1590	-1	-14
3	Portugal	1386	3	119
4	Argentina	1325	-1	-74
5	Belgium	1265	4	71
6	Poland	1250	-1	-69
7	Switzerland	1210	-3	-119
8	France	1208	2	51
9	Chile	1195	-2	-55
10	Colombia	1191	-2	-17
11	Spain	1184	0	70
12	Peru	1103	3	80
13	Wales	1089	5	138
14	Mexico	1085	0	39
15	England	1056	-2	5
16	Uruguay	1043	1	48
17	Italy	1035	-5	-24
18	Croatia	977	-2	-30
19	Slovakia	967	3	50
20	Northern Ireland	945	3	48
21	Costa Rica	936	0	18
22	Iceland	931	-2	4
23	Sweden	918	-4	-15
24	Ukraine	888	3	45
25	Iran	865	-1	-28
26	Denmark	848	20	165
27	Turkey	842	6	63
28	USA	828	-2	-37
29	Netherlands	819	7	85
30	Egypt	815	-5	-51
31	Tunisia	810	3	34
32	Serbia	789	10	76
33	Senegal	774	-2	-20
34	Republic of Ireland	769	-5	-47
35	Ecuador	767	-3	-24
36	Bosnia and Herzegovina	761	-6	-54
37	Montenegro	749	15	106
38	Bulgaria	739	14	96
39	Paraguay	738	1	24
40	Japan	737	4	41
41	Romania	714	1	1
42	Congo DR	709	-14	-113
43	Scotland	702	15	90
44	Nigeria	696	-6	-20
45	Cameroon	689	-10	-48
46	Bolivia	666	22	134
47	Greece	665	-9	-51
48	Haiti	664	7	39
49	Burkina Faso	663	-2	-15
50	Australia	662	-5	-29
51	Korea Republic	659	-2	-15
52	Ghana	646	-2	-19
53	Saudi Arabia	641	6	40
54	Côte d'Ivoire	637	0	1
55	Slovenia	636	-4	-16
56	Morocco	635	4	35
57	Austria	632	-20	-91
58	Czech Republic	630	-18	-84
59	Hungary	629	-3	13
60	Panama	618	1	26
61	Jamaica	607	-4	-7
62	Algeria	564	-14	-113
62	China PR	564	15	117
64	Russia	558	-2	-32
65	Guinea	554	1	18
66	Albania	551	-3	-32
67	Cape Verde Islands	548	47	264
68	Venezuela	525	1	4
69	Uzbekistan	511	-5	-68
70	Cyprus	487	24	129
71	Uganda	486	2	22
72	United Arab Emirates	480	2	21
73	Norway	472	12	81
74	Honduras	467	1	12
75	Syria	465	5	42
76	Mali	464	-11	-81
77	Belarus	454	-6	-49
78	Zambia	448	18	103
79	Gabon	430	9	49
80	South Africa	423	-14	-113
81	Libya	422	2	23
82	Israel	420	-12	-92
83	Armenia	414	-11	-66
84	Estonia	413	14	79
85	Qatar	406	-7	-27
86	Curaçao	405	0	21
87	Finland	404	23	111
88	Benin	400	3	31
88	Iraq	400	14	76
88	Kenya	400	-6	-12
91	Palestine	389	2	25
92	Azerbaijan	388	-13	-39
93	Faroe Islands	384	-4	8
94	Guinea-Bissau	381	-2	16
95	Congo	378	-14	-35
96	Canada	368	-1	16
97	Sierra Leone	366	-21	-82
98	Mauritania	365	-12	-19
99	El Salvador	361	4	41
99	Trinidad and Tobago	361	-16	-38
101	Luxembourg	343	35	120
101	Madagascar	343	-11	-27
103	FYR Macedonia	328	32	100
103	Georgia	328	9	38
105	Zimbabwe	326	-4	1
106	Niger	325	10	53
107	India	316	-10	-25
108	Mozambique	309	-4	-6
109	Nicaragua	307	0	12
110	Jordan	305	-2	6
111	Suriname	303	-4	-2
112	Oman	292	8	33
113	New Zealand	289	10	31
114	St. Kitts and Nevis	286	11	31
115	Lebanon	280	10	25
116	Malawi	278	-10	-28
117	Antigua and Barbuda	276	-2	0
118	Bahrain	273	6	16
118	Rwanda	273	1	13
120	Lithuania	266	-21	-67
121	Togo	263	-8	-26
122	Kyrgyz Republic	260	6	12
123	Philippines	259	4	10
124	Korea DPR	258	-14	-35
125	Tanzania	256	-5	-3
126	Kazakhstan	254	-21	-54
127	Central African Republic	251	-9	-20
128	Yemen	247	18	55
129	Burundi	245	3	10
130	Vietnam	241	4	10
131	Guatemala	235	-31	-96
132	Namibia	233	4	10
133	Liberia	230	0	-2
134	Sudan	228	18	49
135	Equatorial Guinea	224	-19	-48
136	Turkmenistan	221	5	21
137	Angola	219	1	-1
137	Thailand	219	-7	-24
139	Swaziland	217	0	0
140	Tajikistan	213	11	33
141	Comoros	204	2	7
142	New Caledonia	196	3	0
143	Lesotho	193	0	-4
144	Andorra	191	-15	-55
144	Ethiopia	191	-24	-68
146	Botswana	190	-6	-11
147	Hong Kong	188	-1	-4
148	Latvia	182	-17	-60
149	Tahiti	181	1	0
150	South Sudan	177	-2	-8
151	Chinese Taipei	175	-3	-10
152	Myanmar	172	5	15
153	Chad	168	0	0
154	Maldives	156	-12	-43
155	Solomon Islands	153	0	-9
156	Guyana	148	7	13
156	Moldova	148	3	-6
158	Afghanistan	147	-2	-13
159	Grenada	141	3	1
160	Dominican Republic	140	1	-4
161	Mauritius	136	-1	-14
162	Singapore	134	9	18
163	Puerto Rico	132	-9	-35
164	Gambia	131	-6	-25
165	Papua New Guinea	130	-1	0
166	Laos	126	5	10
166	Malaysia	126	0	7
168	Belize	118	-2	-1
169	Indonesia	116	6	6
170	Barbados	115	-2	-3
171	Dominica	111	6	4
172	Cambodia	110	4	1
173	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	107	-4	-10
174	Bhutan	102	-9	-21
175	Nepal	101	-6	-16
176	São Tomé e Príncipe	98	2	0
177	Fiji	95	4	8
178	St. Lucia	94	1	-1
179	Aruba	92	-6	-21
180	Cuba	88	2	8
181	Kuwait	75	-7	-36
182	Bermuda	72	2	0
182	Macau	72	1	-7
184	Kosovo	67	-4	-23
185	Djibouti	64	7	11
186	Brunei Darussalam	62	2	0
187	Liechtenstein	56	3	0
188	Vanuatu	51	7	0
189	Guam	50	-4	-19
190	Seychelles	48	4	-4
191	Malta	44	-1	-12
192	Timor-Leste	40	4	-2
193	American Samoa	38	-7	-26
193	Cook Islands	38	-7	-26
193	Samoa	38	-1	-15
196	Bangladesh	35	-7	-25
197	Mongolia	30	1	0
198	Sri Lanka	29	-1	-5
199	US Virgin Islands	26	0	0
200	Montserrat	20	1	0
200	Pakistan	20	0	-4
202	Cayman Islands	13	0	0
202	Turks and Caicos Islands	13	0	0
204	San Marino	10	0	-2
205	British Virgin Islands	6	0	0
206	Anguilla	0	0	0
206	Bahamas	0	0	0
206	Eritrea	0	0	0
206	Gibraltar	0	0	0
206	Somalia	0	0	0
206	Tonga	0	0	0

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