Fifa world rankings

[Handsome Man]

How the fcuk are Scotland 27th?

Unbeaten in our last 5, including away wins in Poland and Norway and a home win against Croatia

And let's be honest. If England played Scotland now, the score would be pretty close. Not a huge gap in terms of class is there?

That's not because Scotland have got better though. Wikipedia has the squad listed from the Scotland-Nigeria game: it's a sorry list of players.

[Hendo]

and bringing up the rear...



Rnk Team Pts +/- Pos
181 Turks and Caicos Islands 66 26 Up
182 Seychelles 64 -1 Down
183 Curaçao 63 -1 Down
184 Faroe Islands 61 -13 Down
185 Mauritius 56 -1 Down
186 South Sudan 43 -1 Down
187 Vanuatu 38 3 Up
188 Fiji 31 0 Equal
189 Mongolia 29 -2 Down
190 US Virgin Islands 28 5 Up
190 Samoa 28 -1 Down
192 Bahamas 26 -6 Down
192 Brunei Darussalam 26 0 Equal
192 Timor-Leste 26 0 Equal
192 Tonga 26 0 Equal
196 Cayman Islands 21 0 Equal
197 American Samoa 18 1 Up
198 Andorra 16 2 Up
199 Papua New Guinea 14 -3 Down
200 Cambodia 13 -10 Down
200 British Virgin Islands 13 -2 Down
202 Eritrea 11 -1 Down
203 Somalia 8 -1 Down
204 Macau 7 -2 Down
205 Djibouti 6 -1 Down
206 Cook Islands 5 -1 Down
207 Anguilla 1 -1 Down
208 Bhutan 0 -1 Down
208 San Marino 0 -1 Down


How are San Marino that bad? I reckon if they actually played most of the 20 or 30 teams above them they'd probably win.

Turks and Caicos Islands have done well. Up 26

[St. Brynjar]

Odd that Brazil who reached the semis fell below Uruguay who went out in the last 16.

I suppose 20th sounds about fair for us right now.

[stealthpapes]

Odd that Brazil who reached the semis fell below Uruguay who went out in the last 16.

I suppose 20th sounds about fair for us right now.

Outside of the top few, not very much separates most of the teams in the top 20. Games from 4 years ago drop off, replaced by the more recent ones. If I could be arsed, I'd look up the scores and tell you, because the algorithm used is transparent.

[leww_rfc]

Sept 18th update.

1st Germany
2nd Argentina
3rd Colombia


England up 2 to 18th
Wales up 12 to 29th
ROI up 4 to 62nd
Northern Ireland up 24 to 71st


Scotland down 1 to tie 29th with Wales

[SPARTA]

Scotland down 1 to tie 29th with Wales

Lolevel with Waloles.

[Starfish]

ROI up 4 to 62nd

That'll wipe the smile off the face of those laughing about our superb victories against Oman and Georgia, won't it?

[From Despair To Where?]

Odd that Brazil who reached the semis fell below Uruguay who went out in the last 16.

I suppose 20th sounds about fair for us right now.

Outside of the top few, not very much separates most of the teams in the top 20. Games from 4 years ago drop off, replaced by the more recent ones. If I could be arsed, I'd look up the scores and tell you, because the algorithm used is transparent.

Brazil had 2 years of friendlies which don't score as heavily in the ranking calculations either. I saw an article which suggested that a for example, a win away to the Germany in a friendly would score a similar number of points as a win at home to Hungary in a competative match.

This was mooted as an argument when the seedings were announced for the World Cup, Switzerland edged out England primarily due to England playing and losing friendlies against the likes of Brazil or Italy and scoring 0 ranking points whereas Switzerland would beat the likes of Oman in friendlies and pick up 100 points. This was the difference between being seeded and not being seeded. The arguement being that you weight your friendlies in the 18 months before a major tournament to pick up easy ranking points

[Winston Smith]

[No Fixed Abode]

Bit sexist not to post the women's.

[TBM]

Where's Spain?

And what have we dropped to now?

[Winston Smith]

Bit sexist not to post the women's.

Kes & The PC Brigade

sounds like a sh*t novelty act from the 70's. Which is ironic.

[No Fixed Abode]

Bit sexist not to post the women's.

Kes & The PC Brigade

sounds like a sh*t novelty act from the 70's. Which is ironic.

Just pointing out we can all be pernickety like you about racism/sexism.

[stealthpapes]

and bringing up the rear...



Rnk Team Pts +/- Pos
181 Turks and Caicos Islands 66 26 Up
182 Seychelles 64 -1 Down
183 Curaçao 63 -1 Down
184 Faroe Islands 61 -13 Down
185 Mauritius 56 -1 Down
186 South Sudan 43 -1 Down
187 Vanuatu 38 3 Up
188 Fiji 31 0 Equal
189 Mongolia 29 -2 Down
190 US Virgin Islands 28 5 Up
190 Samoa 28 -1 Down
192 Bahamas 26 -6 Down
192 Brunei Darussalam 26 0 Equal
192 Timor-Leste 26 0 Equal
192 Tonga 26 0 Equal
196 Cayman Islands 21 0 Equal
197 American Samoa 18 1 Up
198 Andorra 16 2 Up
199 Papua New Guinea 14 -3 Down
200 Cambodia 13 -10 Down
200 British Virgin Islands 13 -2 Down
202 Eritrea 11 -1 Down
203 Somalia 8 -1 Down
204 Macau 7 -2 Down
205 Djibouti 6 -1 Down
206 Cook Islands 5 -1 Down
207 Anguilla 1 -1 Down
208 Bhutan 0 -1 Down
208 San Marino 0 -1 Down


How are San Marino that bad? I reckon if they actually played most of the 20 or 30 teams above them they'd probably win.

My lot haven't even played a competitive game in 5 or 6 years.

[biff]

and bringing up the rear...



Rnk Team Pts +/- Pos
181 Turks and Caicos Islands 66 26 Up
182 Seychelles 64 -1 Down
183 Curaçao 63 -1 Down
184 Faroe Islands 61 -13 Down
185 Mauritius 56 -1 Down
186 South Sudan 43 -1 Down
187 Vanuatu 38 3 Up
188 Fiji 31 0 Equal
189 Mongolia 29 -2 Down
190 US Virgin Islands 28 5 Up
190 Samoa 28 -1 Down
192 Bahamas 26 -6 Down
192 Brunei Darussalam 26 0 Equal
192 Timor-Leste 26 0 Equal
192 Tonga 26 0 Equal
196 Cayman Islands 21 0 Equal
197 American Samoa 18 1 Up
198 Andorra 16 2 Up
199 Papua New Guinea 14 -3 Down
200 Cambodia 13 -10 Down
200 British Virgin Islands 13 -2 Down
202 Eritrea 11 -1 Down
203 Somalia 8 -1 Down
204 Macau 7 -2 Down
205 Djibouti 6 -1 Down
206 Cook Islands 5 -1 Down
207 Anguilla 1 -1 Down
208 Bhutan 0 -1 Down
208 San Marino 0 -1 Down


How are San Marino that bad? I reckon if they actually played most of the 20 or 30 teams above them they'd probably win.

My lot haven't even played a competitive game in 5 or 6 years.

mongolia?

[Sanguine]

Where's Spain?

And what have we dropped to now?

Just noticed this and had a look. Spain have been absolute bobbins this year (relatively speaking), losing 6 out of 11 (Netherlands twice, Germany, France, Chile and Slovakia), and only beating Ukraine of any note.

It took them 61 games and an entire World Cup cycle to lose 6 times before that.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Good to see those dark horses Belgium still going under the radar.

[TBM]

Good to see those dark horses Belgium still going under the radar.

Belgium moved to their highest ever position of second in the latest Fifa rankings, behind leaders Germany.

[PeterReadingborn59]

FIFA ratings for places to do business:

1. Anywhere, why bother about borders it is the amount that matters.
2. Qatar
3. Russia
4. South Africa
5. Switzerland
6. Monaco
7. Cayman Islands
8. Nigeria

Harry's dog told them that was enough.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/harry-redknapp-pulls-another-shrewd-5859178

[Pepe the Horseman]

Lol @ the second best team in the world losing against Wales.