FIFA Ranking: November 2017 final preview

One match left: Fiji - Estonia. The visitors can't stop collecting flags.

FIFA will publish the ranking on 23 November. India vs. Macau was not included in the October calculation, but I expect it to be included in the November edition.


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

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

Estonia	394	407	89	84
Fiji	93	141	177	155

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

Best movers:

18 - Korea DPR
13 - Lebanon
11 - Burkina Faso, Indonesia

Worst movers:

-22 - Laos
-19 - Chad
-16 - Israel

Best movers in the top 50:

11 - Burkina Faso
10 - Austria
9 - Senegal

Worst movers in the top 50:

-11 - Japan
-9 - Turkey, Nigeria
-7 - Bulgaria, Panama

Four teams will improve their best ever ranking:

Senegal (23 - 26 in June 2004)
Palestine (82 - 84 in October 2017)
Luxembourg (84 - 93 in October 2017)
Chinese Taipei (135 - 143 in October 2017)

Two will return to their worst ever placing:

Israel (98 - 98 in September 2016)
Malaysia (at most 174 - 174 in May 2016)

I suspect the FIFA ranking consultant left Malaysia for greener pastures :)

Three will drop to new lows.

Lithuania (148 - 145 in October 2017)
Kuwait (188 - 186 in October 2017)
Sri Lanka (200 - 198 in October 2017)

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

Lebanon (at least 87 - 85 in December 1998) - 18 years and 11 months
Turkmenistan (112 - 112 in November 2005) - 12 years
Morocco (40 - 37 in September 2008) - 9 years and 2 months
Djibouti (183 - 182 in September 2008) - 9 years and 2 months
Denmark (12 - 10 in September 2012) - 5 years and 2 months
Paraguay (30 - 29 in September 2012) - 5 years and 2 months
Iraq (79 - 78 in September 2012) - 5 years and 2 months


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

Botswana (150 - 153 in December 2001) - 15 years and 11 months
Uruguay (21 - 21 in February 2010) - 7 years and 9 months
Slovenia (69 - 73 in October 2008) - 9 years and 1 month
Ecuador (71 - 72 in September 2010) - 7 years and 2 months
Uzbekistan (80 - 82 in August 2011) - 6 years and 3 months
Equatorial Guinea (145 - 151 in January 2012) - 5 years and 10 months
Laos (184 - 193 in October 2012) - 5 years and 1 month

Cambodia will be ranked above Malaysia for the first time ever.
Lebanon, Luxembourg and Palestine will be ranked above Israel for the first time ever.
Denmark will be ranked above England for the first time in the last 17 years and 7 months.

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

1	Germany	1602	0	-29
2	Brazil	1483	0	-136
3	Portugal	1358	0	-88
4	Argentina	1348	0	-97
5	Belgium	1325	0	-8
6	Spain	1231	2	13
7	Poland	1209	-1	-114
8	Switzerland	1190	3	56
9	France	1183	-2	-43
10	Chile	1162	-1	-11
11	Peru	1128	-1	-32
12	Denmark	1099	7	98
13	Colombia	1078	0	-17
14	Italy	1052	1	-14
15	England	1047	-3	-69
16	Mexico	1032	0	-28
17	Croatia	1018	1	5
18	Sweden	998	7	126
19	Wales	985	-5	-87
20	Netherlands	952	0	21
21	Uruguay	924	-4	-110
22	Iceland	910	-1	-10
23	Senegal	884	9	69
24	Northern Ireland	867	-1	-22
24	USA	867	3	24
26	Costa Rica	850	-4	-64
27	Tunisia	838	1	4
28	Slovakia	817	-4	-68
29	Austria	815	10	70
30	Paraguay	812	6	62
31	Egypt	805	-1	-13
32	Iran	798	2	14
32	Republic of Ireland	798	-6	-68
32	Scotland	798	-3	-23
35	Ukraine	781	-5	-37
36	Congo DR	764	-1	13
37	Serbia	756	1	8
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	753	2	9
39	Australia	747	4	33
40	Morocco	738	8	58
41	Romania	737	4	32
42	Turkey	735	-9	-72
43	Bulgaria	719	-7	-31
44	Burkina Faso	705	11	66
45	Cameroon	696	-3	-22
46	Montenegro	681	8	41
47	Greece	680	0	-2
48	Czech Republic	677	-2	-22
49	Bolivia	674	1	10
50	Nigeria	671	-9	-50
51	Ghana	657	1	6
52	Venezuela	639	-1	-24
53	Hungary	630	0	-12
54	Jamaica	625	5	11
55	Japan	623	-11	-88
56	Panama	621	-7	-49
57	Haiti	607	-1	-20
58	Norway	573	0	-47
59	Korea Republic	563	3	-25
60	China PR	561	-3	-65
61	Côte d'Ivoire	557	0	-43
62	Albania	553	9	55
63	Saudi Arabia	539	0	-37
64	Algeria	537	3	-3
65	Russia	534	0	-29
66	Guinea	532	0	-20
67	Finland	531	7	58
68	Cape Verde Islands	530	-4	-38
69	Slovenia	522	-1	-2
70	Honduras	521	-1	11
71	Ecuador	508	-11	-100
72	Mali	493	0	5
73	United Arab Emirates	474	-1	-14
74	Uganda	471	-4	-32
75	Zambia	449	2	-1
76	FYR Macedonia	446	9	36
77	Libya	442	10	35
77	Syria	442	0	-8
79	Iraq	438	1	9
80	Uzbekistan	437	-4	-33
81	South Africa	434	-7	-39
82	Benin	427	-3	-11
82	Palestine	427	2	9
84	Curaçao	407	5	5
84	Luxembourg	407	9	39
86	Lebanon	404	14	52
87	Guinea-Bissau	403	1	0
88	Trinidad and Tobago	402	-5	-17
89	Estonia	394	-9	-35
90	Armenia	383	0	-9
91	Cyprus	373	-5	-36
92	Belarus	372	-1	-19
93	Gabon	370	-1	-14
94	Canada	369	2	8
95	Faroe Islands	364	0	1
96	Congo	362	-2	-5
97	Sierra Leone	360	2	2
98	Israel	355	-16	-65
99	Mauritania	354	2	8
100	El Salvador	352	-3	-8
101	Oman	350	9	50
102	Qatar	336	-5	-24
103	Zimbabwe	323	1	-6
104	Georgia	322	3	16
105	India	320	0	-8
106	Nicaragua	315	2	12
107	Jordan	311	6	30
108	Madagascar	309	-5	-23
108	Niger	309	-2	-15
110	Mozambique	304	1	5
111	Kenya	300	-9	-45
112	Turkmenistan	292	2	13
113	St. Kitts and Nevis	291	-5	-12
114	Korea DPR	283	18	51
115	Bahrain	282	10	31
115	Kyrgyz Republic	282	5	17
117	Azerbaijan	281	-2	8
118	Philippines	280	-2	8
119	Namibia	274	10	41
120	Rwanda	269	-2	1
121	Yemen	268	-9	-29
122	New Zealand	267	0	11
123	Central African Republic	266	-4	0
123	Togo	266	1	13
125	Vietnam	265	-4	4
126	Malawi	260	-9	-11
127	Tajikistan	255	-4	0
128	Suriname	245	-3	-6
129	Guatemala	242	-1	8
130	Comoros	235	-3	-2
131	Latvia	233	-2	0
132	Thailand	230	6	5
133	Swaziland	225	7	6
134	Liberia	224	1	-6
135	Chinese Taipei	221	8	21
136	Kazakhstan	220	-3	-11
137	Sudan	219	4	1
138	Burundi	216	-9	-17
139	Andorra	215	5	24
140	Antigua and Barbuda	209	-4	-18
141	Angola	201	-2	-22
142	Tanzania	193	-6	-34
143	Hong Kong	189	-1	-22
144	Lesotho	188	2	-1
145	Equatorial Guinea	187	-12	-44
145	Ethiopia	187	6	12
147	Afghanistan	181	7	13
148	Lithuania	179	-3	-11
148	Solomon Islands	179	4	6
150	Botswana	176	-3	-9
150	Myanmar	176	5	10
152	South Sudan	172	1	0
153	Tahiti	149	-5	-32
154	Barbados	144	6	16
154	Indonesia	144	11	27
156	New Caledonia	139	-6	-38
157	Belize	135	4	10
157	Maldives	135	-1	-9
159	Mauritius	134	-1	-3
160	Grenada	132	-3	-9
161	Papua New Guinea	126	-2	-4
162	Dominican Republic	121	1	0
163	Gambia	120	1	0
164	Guyana	117	1	0
165	Puerto Rico	112	2	0
166	Dominica	111	3	0
166	Moldova	111	1	-1
168	Chad	110	-19	-68
169	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	99	3	-5
170	Cambodia	98	0	-12
170	Cuba	98	9	15
170	Nepal	98	6	4
170	Singapore	98	3	-2
174	Kosovo	97	9	30
174	Malaysia	97	-4	-13
174	St. Lucia	97	0	0
177	São Tomé e Príncipe	94	-1	0
178	Fiji	93	-3	-2
179	Aruba	92	-1	0
180	Bermuda	72	1	0
181	Malta	66	1	-3
182	Macau	65	-2	-15
183	Djibouti	64	2	0
184	Laos	62	-22	-60
185	Bhutan	55	5	5
185	Vanuatu	55	3	4
187	Liechtenstein	54	0	0
188	Kuwait	52	-2	-6
189	Seychelles	51	-1	0
190	Brunei Darussalam	45	-6	-20
191	Guam	43	0	-3
192	American Samoa	38	1	0
192	Bangladesh	38	4	5
192	Cook Islands	38	1	0
192	Samoa	38	1	0
196	Timor-Leste	32	-4	-10
197	US Virgin Islands	26	2	0
198	Montserrat	20	2	0
199	Mongolia	17	-2	-13
200	Sri Lanka	16	-2	-11
201	Pakistan	15	0	0
202	Cayman Islands	13	0	0
202	Turks and Caicos Islands	13	0	0
204	San Marino	11	0	1
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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