Poland at 31 is criminal. With our current form we should be way lower.
Are we still in the Top 100?
Italy? #9? When they literally should’ve been eliminated by Ukraine from Euros 2024 if not for incompetent refereeing? Completely negates any legitimacy this list had………but that’s FIFA for ya
Uruguay went from rank 15 to rank 11 by beating brazil and argentina
They should be around the top 5 IMO.
They went out in the group stage of the 2022 World Cup. Their ranking isn’t that crazy.
Diego Alonso
They are 7th on the Elo rankings
A bit much considering Bielsa has only been there a short period, before that Uruguay hadn’t been good in years
We had a problematic transition between generations. Suárez, Cavani and Godín were far from their peak by 2020. And Valverde, Bentancur, Ugarte, and Araujo were still green.
I always liked Bielsa, but the raw material and base level of every football team are set by the quality of the players.
Position by position, this is the best generation of Uruguayan players at the very least since 1990.
They’re quite easily a top 5 nation right now tbh
They didn’t look that in Qatar tbf.
Not like we had Bielsa back then
What a huge overreaction
The fact that Belgium is fourth in front of Croatia, Spain, and Italy proves this ranking is nonsense.
maybe those teams should stop losing games in qualifying, that’s really the only way belgium does it
How did portugal go down? Literally won every single game this year.
They again got the esiest group. Its not hard to beat farmers and blacksmiths from lihtenstein.
It still surprises me how hard Germany have fallen off over the previous 5 years
for me its Belgium… the team have no business to be top10 . let alone top4…
The DFB is symbolic of many things that go wrong in Germany, for example in politics. Corrupt, incompetent and detached from the rest of society.
“Die Mannschaft” tells you everything you need to know.
I was about to say the same thing, bizarre how far Germany have fallen
I know there’s an algorithm to determine this and it’s not exactly based on feelings, but damn, I don’t know anyone who’s watched England play recently that would say they’re the third best team in the world.
USA sitting at 12 and I’m still not buying it
I think we’re overrated by beating up on some of the island nations in CONCACAF. Netherlands handled them with ease for there to be only 6 spots ahead of the US
inverse of 12 is 21. 2-1=1. we’re number 1. no idea who these other countries even are.
We also went toe to toe with England. It’s soccer, results are often mixed and sample size is always small.
Tbf our team played above expectations in the WC i feel like, we’re quite shit
For people asking why is one team rated higher than others, here’s the calculation method:
My country (Brazil) Lost to Venezuela weeks ago by 2 x 0 ( World Cup elimination phase).
We are far away from top 10…
San Marino still getting minus points even though they’re doing amazing for a team their calibre now……
Portugal won every single Euro Qualifier game, and they drop a level?
The +/- is only relative to last month’s ranking, they dropped a level based on only beating Iceland and Liechtenstein since the last rankings update. Netherlands got more points for beating Ireland and Gibraltar.
Somebody please tell me the last time Belgium made any waves at any tournament. Theyre trash.
They sure win a lot of games for a team that is trash
Someone has no clue how the ranking works
Perfect top 3, but the rest of the list is awful.
It’s not a subjective list, it’s just a rating based on the latest results from the teams. It’s a mathematical formula, not something to be taken as a definitive ranking.