FIFA ranking: August 2022 final preview

FIFA will publish the ranking on Thursday August 25th. This final preview contains 53 matches, out of 55 matches played since June 20th. There are no more matches scheduled until the deadline of the ranking.

Three smaller (regional) tournaments were played in Africa and Asia:

• COSAFA Cup
• East Asian Championship
• first round play-off qualifiers for the African Nations Championship

Here are the match points per played match:

incl.	date	match	tournament	I	We (elo)	We (FIFA)	pts exchanged
Y	2022-07-05	ANG - COM	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	65	51	2,436/-2,436
Y	2022-07-05	BOT - SEY	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	91	67	1,655/-1,655
Y	2022-07-06	SWZ - MRI	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	86	62	1,905/-1,905
Y	2022-07-06	LES - MWI	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	36	42	2,916/-2,916
Y	2022-07-07	ANG - SEY	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	95	75	1,264/-1,264
Y	2022-07-07	BOT - COM	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	57	43	2,869/-2,869
Y	2022-07-08	SWZ - MWI	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	49	43	0,356/-0,356
Y	2022-07-08	LES - MRI	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	84	62	1,919/-1,919
Y	2022-07-10	ANG - BOT	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	62	59	-2,947/2,947
Y	2022-07-10	COM - SEY	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	88	73	1,337/-1,337
Y	2022-07-10	SWZ - LES	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	55	51	2,475/-2,475
Y	2022-07-10	MWI - MRI	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	88	69	1,558/-1,558
Y	2022-07-12	MAD - NAM	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	46	53	-2,668/2,668
Y	2022-07-12	ZAM - BOT	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	60	69	0,292/0,958
Y	2022-07-13	SEN - SWZ	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	92	88	-0,655/1,905
Y	2022-07-13	RSA - MOZ	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	87	67	-0,862/2,112
Y	2022-07-15	BOT - SWZ	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	54	49	2,571/-2,571
Y	2022-07-15	RSA - MAD	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	87	64	1,783/-1,783
Y	2022-07-15	MOZ - NAM	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	44	50	-2,495/2,495
Y	2022-07-15	ZAM - SEN	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	15	22	3,882/-3,882
N	2022-07-16	PHI - TLS	Friendly 2022	5	94	72	0,000/0,000
Y	2022-07-17	ZAM - NAM	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	59	60	1,997/-1,997
Y	2022-07-17	SEN - MOZ	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	90	84	-0,441/1,691
Y	2022-07-17	RSA - BOT	COSAFA Cup 2022	5	80	75	1,246/-1,246
N	2022-07-18	MRI - SEY	Friendly 2022	5	70	57	0,000/0,000
Y	2022-07-19	JPN - HKG	East Asian Championship 2022	5	98	87	0,658/-0,658
Y	2022-07-20	KOR - CHN	East Asian Championship 2022	5	88	70	1,494/-1,494
Y	2022-07-22	ETH - SSD	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	80	60	-0,479/0,479
Y	2022-07-22	COM - RSA	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	16	30	-1,494/1,494
Y	2022-07-23	SOM - TAN	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	95	27	-1,340/1,340
Y	2022-07-23	BOT - SWZ	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	73	49	0,052/-0,052
Y	2022-07-23	SEY - MAD	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	9	22	-1,103/1,103
Y	2022-07-23	GAM - GNB	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	55	47	2,637/-2,637
Y	2022-07-24	BDI - DJI	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	90	68	1,576/-1,576
Y	2022-07-24	MRI - ANG	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	12	31	-1,540/1,540
Y	2022-07-24	MOZ - ZAM	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	44	39	0,531/-0,531
Y	2022-07-24	LBR - SEN	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	17	11	-0,557/0,557
Y	2022-07-24	SLE - CPV	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	37	35	3,265/-3,265
Y	2022-07-24	GHA - BEN	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	77	62	1,902/-1,902
Y	2022-07-24	JPN - CHN	East Asian Championship 2022	5	92	72	-1,118/1,118
Y	2022-07-24	KOR - HKG	East Asian Championship 2022	5	98	86	0,714/-0,714
Y	2022-07-26	GNB - GAM	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	45	52	2,388/-2,388
Y	2022-07-27	CHN - HKG	East Asian Championship 2022	5	86	72	1,409/-1,409
Y	2022-07-27	JPN - KOR	East Asian Championship 2022	5	55	52	2,385/-2,385
Y	2022-07-27	CPV - SLE	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	63	65	1,764/-1,764
Y	2022-07-28	SSD - ETH	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	20	41	-2,025/2,025
Y	2022-07-29	DJI - BDI	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	10	31	3,437/-3,437
Y	2022-07-30	TAN - SOM	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	95	73	1,330/-1,330
Y	2022-07-30	ANG - MRI	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	96	69	1,527/-1,527
Y	2022-07-30	RSA - COM	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	90	70	-1,018/1,018
Y	2022-07-30	ZAM - MOZ	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	80	61	-3,027/3,027
Y	2022-07-30	SEN - LBR	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	94	89	-4,445/4,445
Y	2022-07-30	BEN - GHA	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	48	38	-1,885/1,885
Y	2022-07-31	SWZ - BOT	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	39	51	-0,052/0,052
Y	2022-07-31	MAD - SEY	African Nations Championship 2023 Q	5	95	78	1,096/-1,096

Best movers:

3 - Botswana

2 - Mozambique, Angola

Worst movers:

-4 - Seychelles, Somalia

-2 - Guatemala, Hong Kong

No moves in the top 50.

Stay safe and healthy everybody !

pos Aug	team	pts Aug	+/- pos	+/- pts
1	Brazil	1837,56	0	0
2	Belgium	1821,92	0	0
3	Argentina	1770,65	0	0
4	France	1764,85	0	0
5	England	1737,46	0	0
6	Spain	1716,93	0	0
7	Italy	1713,86	0	0
8	Netherlands	1679,41	0	0
9	Portugal	1678,65	0	0
10	Denmark	1665,47	0	0
11	Germany	1658,96	0	0
12	Mexico	1649,57	0	0
13	Uruguay	1643,71	0	0
14	USA	1635,01	0	0
15	Croatia	1632,15	0	0
16	Switzerland	1621,43	0	0
17	Colombia	1604,07	0	0
18	Senegal	1584,59	0	-8,86
19	Wales	1582,13	0	0
20	Sweden	1563,44	0	0
21	Peru	1562,24	0	0
22	Morocco	1558,90	0	0
23	Iran	1558,64	0	0
24	Japan	1554,69	0	1,92
25	Serbia	1549,53	0	0
26	Poland	1546,18	0	0
27	Ukraine	1542,79	0	0
28	Korea Republic	1526,02	0	-0,18
29	Chile	1514,86	0	0
30	Tunisia	1507,86	0	0
31	Nigeria	1504,70	0	0
32	Czech Republic	1502,90	0	0
33	Austria	1502,47	0	0
34	Costa Rica	1500,06	0	0
35	Russia	1493,42	0	0
36	Norway	1488,57	0	0
37	Hungary	1486,76	0	0
38	Cameroon	1484,95	0	0
39	Australia	1483,73	0	0
40	Egypt	1482,63	0	0
41	Algeria	1480,59	0	0
42	Turkey	1475,13	0	0
43	Canada	1473,82	0	0
44	Ecuador	1463,74	0	0
45	Scotland	1462,96	0	0
46	Mali	1447,74	0	0
47	Republic of Ireland	1442,48	0	0
48	Greece	1441,45	0	0
49	Qatar	1441,41	0	0
50	Paraguay	1440,13	0	0
51	Slovakia	1439,99	0	0
52	Cote d'Ivoire	1435,91	0	0
53	Saudi Arabia	1435,74	0	0
54	Romania	1427,84	0	0
55	Burkina Faso	1425,64	0	0
56	Venezuela	1405,17	0	0
57	Bosnia-Herzegovina	1403,98	0	0
58	Northern Ireland	1399,10	0	0
59	Finland	1398,41	0	0
60	Ghana	1393,47	0	3,79
61	Panama	1386,51	0	0
62	Jamaica	1382,06	0	0
63	Iceland	1379,61	0	0
64	North Macedonia	1375,20	0	0
65	Slovenia	1372,48	0	0
66	Albania	1361,81	0	0
67	Montenegro	1354,59	0	0
68	South Africa	1350,55	0	2,64
69	United Arab Emirates	1346,09	0	0
70	Iraq	1338,91	0	0
71	El Salvador	1333,48	0	0
72	Congo DR	1332,84	1	0
73	Cape Verde Islands	1331,46	-1	-1,50
74	Bulgaria	1325,16	0	0
75	Oman	1323,03	0	0
76	Israel	1316,35	0	0
77	Uzbekistan	1306,63	0	0
78	China PR	1305,06	0	1,04
79	Gabon	1301,84	0	0
80	Honduras	1299,69	0	0
81	Bolivia	1298,81	0	0
82	Georgia	1296,46	0	0
83	Guinea	1294,89	0	0
84	Curacao	1293,35	0	0
85	Bahrain	1289,25	0	0
86	Jordan	1279,74	0	0
87	Zambia	1270,80	1	2,61
88	Haiti	1269,07	-1	0
89	Syria	1265,03	0	0
90	Uganda	1264,56	0	0
91	Benin	1258,71	0	-3,78
92	Armenia	1242,42	0	0
93	Luxembourg	1235,36	0	0
94	Palestine	1233,72	0	0
95	Kyrgyzstan	1232,91	0	0
96	Belarus	1226,55	0	0
97	Vietnam	1218,84	0	0
98	Equatorial Guinea	1215,33	0	0
99	Congo	1215,09	0	0
100	Lebanon	1211,71	0	0
101	Trinidad and Tobago	1205,85	0	0
102	Kenya	1202,26	0	0
103	New Zealand	1198,96	0	0
104	India	1198,65	0	0
105	Madagascar	1193,78	0	-2,25
106	Kosovo	1183,90	0	0
107	Cyprus	1180,52	0	0
108	Tajikistan	1179,10	0	0
109	Estonia	1177,40	0	0
110	Mauritania	1177,00	0	0
111	Thailand	1170,69	0	0
112	Korea DPR	1169,96	0	0
113	Sierra Leone	1169,71	0	1,50
114	Kazakhstan	1166,28	0	0
115	Guinea-Bissau	1165,53	0	-0,25
116	Mozambique	1165,41	2	4,86
117	Namibia	1164,13	0	3,16
118	Guatemala	1161,96	-2	0
119	Niger	1155,23	0	0
120	Angola	1149,08	2	3,82
121	Libya	1148,36	-1	0
122	Malawi	1144,77	-1	-1,72
123	Zimbabwe	1138,56	0	0
124	Gambia	1137,47	0	0,25
125	Faroe Islands	1136,29	0	0
126	Togo	1130,22	1	0
127	Comoros	1127,44	-1	-4,44
128	Azerbaijan	1127,17	0	0
129	Latvia	1125,36	0	0
130	Sudan	1124,91	0	0
131	Tanzania	1121,91	0	2,67
132	Antigua and Barbuda	1117,01	0	0
133	Central African Republic	1116,06	0	0
134	Philippines	1113,75	0	0
135	Turkmenistan	1100,47	0	0
136	Rwanda	1095,04	0	0
137	Solomon Islands	1092,56	0	0
138	Ethiopia	1088,27	0	1,55
139	Nicaragua	1079,18	0	0
140	St. Kitts and Nevis	1076,91	1	0
141	Burundi	1076,26	-1	-1,86
142	Lithuania	1074,08	0	0
143	Suriname	1072,24	0	0
144	Eswatini	1070,89	0	3,97
145	Lesotho	1061,40	1	2,36
146	Botswana	1060,17	3	9,85
147	Hong Kong	1058,37	-2	-2,78
148	Malaysia	1057,59	-1	0
149	Kuwait	1053,41	-1	0
150	Liberia	1051,25	0	3,89
151	Dominican Republic	1031,86	0	0
152	Andorra	1028,70	0	0
153	Yemen	1023,52	0	0
154	Afghanistan	1023,04	0	0
155	Indonesia	1019,19	0	0
156	Maldives	1018,25	0	0
157	Chinese Taipei	1017,78	0	0
158	Myanmar	1011,91	0	0
159	Singapore	1004,75	0	0
160	New Caledonia	999,70	0	0
161	Papua New Guinea	997,60	0	0
162	Tahiti	995,11	0	0
163	Fiji	993,37	0	0
164	Vanuatu	990,55	0	0
165	South Sudan	983,98	0	-1,55
166	Barbados	982,27	0	0
167	Cuba	978,65	0	0
168	Malta	974,68	0	0
169	Puerto Rico	974,32	0	0
170	Bermuda	970,30	0	0
171	Grenada	969,00	0	0
172	Guyana	968,74	0	0
173	St. Lucia	965,66	0	0
174	Cambodia	954,30	0	0
175	Belize	950,88	0	0
176	Nepal	950,45	0	0
177	Montserrat	947,96	0	0
178	Moldova	944,96	0	0
179	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	939,97	1	0
180	Mauritius	932,02	-1	-8,45
181	Chad	931,98	0	0
182	Macau	922,10	0	0
183	Laos	914,66	0	0
184	Mongolia	913,55	0	0
185	Dominica	911,51	0	0
186	Bhutan	910,96	0	0
187	Sao Tomé e Príncipe	908,18	0	0
188	American Samoa	900,27	0	0
189	Cook Islands	899,33	0	0
190	Brunei Darussalam	897,10	0	0
191	Samoa	894,26	0	0
192	Bangladesh	883,18	0	0
193	Djibouti	877,84	0	1,86
194	Liechtenstein	873,99	0	0
195	Pakistan	866,81	1	0
196	Cayman Islands	865,72	1	0
197	Tonga	861,81	1	0
198	Timor-Leste	861,43	1	0
199	Seychelles	860,48	-4	-6,46
200	Gibraltar	856,55	1	0
201	Eritrea	855,56	1	0
202	Aruba	855,37	1	0
203	Bahamas	854,80	1	0
204	Somalia	854,72	-4	-2,67
205	Guam	838,33	0	0
206	Turks and Caicos Islands	832,00	0	0
207	Sri Lanka	825,25	0	0
208	US Virgin Islands	823,97	0	0
209	British Virgin Islands	809,32	0	0
210	Anguilla	790,74	0	0
211	San Marino	763,82	0	0

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