FIFA ranking: December 2021 probable ranking

The publishing date of the December 2021 ranking is pushed back one week. Probably to be able to include the complete Arab Cup in Qatar and the complete group phase of the South East Asian Championships in Singapore, the two regional tournaments taking the headlines this month. Matches in both tournaments are friendlies for ranking calculations purposes, so teams can lose points in knock-out matches also.

Here is the probable December 2021 ranking, to be published on Thursday December 23rd.

This preview is calculated with elo-predicted results for all 56 currently scheduled and according to my method included matches, out of a total of 56 currently scheduled matches. See the probable results for a list of which scheduled matches are included.

pos Dec	team	pts Dec	+/- pos	+/- pts
1	Belgium	1828,45	0	0
2	Brazil	1826,35	0	0
3	France	1786,15	0	0
4	England	1755,52	0	0
5	Argentina	1750,51	0	0
6	Italy	1740,77	0	0
7	Spain	1704,75	0	0
8	Portugal	1660,25	0	0
9	Denmark	1654,54	0	0
10	Netherlands	1653,73	0	0
11	USA	1648,51	1	1,37
12	Germany	1648,33	-1	0
13	Switzerland	1642,83	0	0
14	Mexico	1638,30	0	-0,46
15	Croatia	1620,74	0	0
16	Colombia	1607,15	0	0
17	Uruguay	1596,66	0	0
18	Sweden	1588,26	0	0
19	Wales	1578,01	0	0
20	Senegal	1561,68	0	0
21	Iran	1557,58	0	0
22	Peru	1551,15	0	0
23	Serbia	1547,38	0	0
24	Chile	1543,41	0	2,08
25	Ukraine	1535,08	0	0
26	Morocco	1531,67	2	6,17
27	Japan	1531,53	-1	0
28	Poland	1530,62	-1	0
29	Algeria	1517,34	3	8,80
30	Tunisia	1513,12	-1	0,99
31	Austria	1511,56	-1	0
32	Czech Republic	1510,42	-1	0
33	Korea Republic	1507,24	0	0
34	Russia	1493,42	0	0
35	Australia	1484,88	0	0
36	Nigeria	1478,78	0	0
37	Turkey	1472,72	0	0
38	Scotland	1471,82	0	0
39	Hungary	1465,62	0	0
40	Canada	1462,32	0	0
41	Norway	1455,43	0	0
42	Slovakia	1455,36	0	0
43	Paraguay	1454,52	0	0
44	Romania	1453,18	0	0
45	Ecuador	1450,77	1	2,03
46	Egypt	1447,82	-1	-1,69
47	Saudi Arabia	1444,98	1	3,81
48	Republic of Ireland	1444,29	-1	0
49	Qatar	1440,77	2	9,76
50	Costa Rica	1437,43	-1	0
51	Cameroon	1437,35	-1	0
52	Ghana	1428,97	0	0
53	Mali	1427,98	0	0
54	Northern Ireland	1424,97	0	0
55	Greece	1421,99	0	0
56	Cote d'Ivoire	1417,86	0	0
57	Jamaica	1412,13	0	0
58	Finland	1411,77	0	0
59	Venezuela	1409,14	0	0
60	Burkina Faso	1397,64	0	0
61	Bosnia-Herzegovina	1391,19	0	-1,37
62	Iceland	1385,21	0	0
63	Panama	1379,34	0	0
64	Congo DR	1375,64	0	0
65	Slovenia	1375,42	0	0
66	Albania	1374,98	0	0
67	North Macedonia	1367,23	0	0
68	South Africa	1358,24	0	0
69	United Arab Emirates	1347,94	1	-2,47
70	El Salvador	1346,98	-1	-3,65
71	Bulgaria	1345,47	0	0
72	Montenegro	1342,89	0	0
73	Cape Verde Islands	1339,48	0	0
74	China PR	1337,33	0	0
75	Honduras	1332,16	1	0
76	Iraq	1331,37	-1	-4,21
77	Bolivia	1324,21	0	0
78	Israel	1306,70	1	0
79	Oman	1305,08	-1	-2,01
80	Curacao	1298,39	0	0
81	Guinea	1298,32	0	0
82	Uganda	1285,28	0	0
83	Benin	1282,53	0	0
84	Uzbekistan	1274,58	0	0
85	Syria	1271,04	0	1,08
86	Georgia	1269,24	0	0
87	Haiti	1268,05	0	0
88	Zambia	1264,64	0	0
89	Gabon	1262,00	0	0
90	Bahrain	1254,69	0	-1,06
91	Jordan	1249,82	0	-3,13
92	Armenia	1242,24	0	0
93	Luxembourg	1236,45	0	0
94	Belarus	1233,43	1	0
95	Lebanon	1230,50	-1	-3,26
96	Kyrgyzstan	1228,69	0	0
97	Congo	1221,40	0	0
98	Vietnam	1215,03	1	5,81
99	Palestine	1208,91	-1	-2,41
100	Trinidad and Tobago	1207,94	0	0
101	Madagascar	1205,61	0	0
102	Kenya	1202,26	0	0
103	Mauritania	1185,24	0	-4,99
104	India	1182,75	0	0
105	Cyprus	1178,65	0	0
106	Guinea-Bissau	1177,14	0	0
107	Estonia	1176,50	0	0
108	Sierra Leone	1174,12	0	0
109	Korea DPR	1169,96	0	0
110	New Zealand	1165,81	0	0
111	Kosovo	1163,05	0	0
112	Namibia	1162,93	0	0
113	Niger	1158,39	0	0
114	Equatorial Guinea	1156,78	0	0
115	Thailand	1153,66	3	5,03
116	Tajikistan	1152,56	-1	0
117	Libya	1151,06	-1	0
118	Mozambique	1151,01	-1	0
119	Kazakhstan	1140,71	0	0
120	Azerbaijan	1139,02	0	0
121	Zimbabwe	1138,44	0	0
122	Guatemala	1138,40	0	0
123	Faroe Islands	1136,99	0	0
124	Sudan	1134,24	0	-1,65
125	Togo	1133,24	0	0
126	Angola	1131,72	1	0
127	Antigua and Barbuda	1131,08	1	0
128	Philippines	1129,91	-2	-2,02
129	Malawi	1127,21	0	0
130	Central African Republic	1127,20	0	0
131	Tanzania	1118,76	0	0
132	Comoros	1117,65	0	0
133	Turkmenistan	1117,60	0	0
134	Latvia	1100,03	0	0
135	Rwanda	1095,34	0	0
136	Lithuania	1091,77	0	0
137	Ethiopia	1087,89	0	0
138	St. Kitts and Nevis	1077,76	0	0
139	Suriname	1077,57	0	0
140	Burundi	1075,82	0	0
141	Solomon Islands	1072,78	0	0
142	Kuwait	1064,02	0	0
143	Nicaragua	1062,21	0	0
144	Liberia	1058,28	0	0
145	Lesotho	1057,62	0	0
146	Eswatini	1054,14	0	0
147	Hong Kong	1053,39	0	0
148	Botswana	1051,59	1	0
149	Afghanistan	1049,77	1	0
150	Gambia	1049,74	1	0
151	Yemen	1046,26	1	0
152	Myanmar	1044,56	-4	-8,01
153	Malaysia	1037,02	1	2,15
154	New Caledonia	1035,12	-1	0
155	Andorra	1030,28	0	0
156	Dominican Republic	1029,42	0	0
157	Maldives	1021,58	0	0
158	Chinese Taipei	1017,78	0	0
159	Tahiti	1014,27	0	0
160	Singapore	1005,89	0	8,47
161	Fiji	996,27	0	0
162	Barbados	995,94	0	0
163	Vanuatu	995,62	0	0
164	Papua New Guinea	990,55	0	0
165	Indonesia	987,32	1	6,14
166	Bermuda	982,43	-1	0
167	South Sudan	980,25	0	0
168	Grenada	974,03	0	0
169	Nepal	972,45	0	0
170	Belize	967,42	1	0
171	Cambodia	966,62	-1	-3,80
172	Mauritius	964,94	0	0
173	Puerto Rico	962,77	0	0
174	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	960,71	0	0
175	Malta	958,95	0	0
176	Guyana	958,87	0	0
177	St. Lucia	953,45	0	0
178	Montserrat	950,71	0	0
179	Cuba	948,96	0	0
180	Chad	935,00	0	0
181	Moldova	928,35	0	0
182	Macau	922,10	0	0
183	Dominica	916,72	0	0
184	Mongolia	916,68	0	0
185	Bhutan	910,96	1	0
186	Bangladesh	907,83	1	0
187	Laos	904,60	-2	-7,47
188	Brunei Darussalam	903,90	0	0
189	Sao Tomé e Príncipe	903,31	0	0
190	American Samoa	900,27	0	0
191	Liechtenstein	899,52	0	0
192	Djibouti	896,62	0	0
193	Samoa	894,26	0	0
194	Somalia	873,71	1	0
195	Cayman Islands	873,64	1	0
196	Timor-Leste	873,13	-2	-6,30
197	Seychelles	870,63	0	1,12
198	Pakistan	866,81	0	0
199	Tonga	861,81	0	0
200	Aruba	859,97	0	0
201	Bahamas	858,50	0	0
202	Eritrea	855,56	0	0
203	Gibraltar	853,60	0	0
204	Sri Lanka	842,93	0	0,13
205	Turks and Caicos Islands	839,84	0	0
206	Guam	838,33	0	0
207	US Virgin Islands	816,13	0	0
208	British Virgin Islands	812,94	0	0
209	Anguilla	792,34	0	0
210	San Marino	780,33	0	0

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