FIFA World Rankings

Top 20 rankings as of 22 December 2022
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		Brazil	1840.77
2	1	Argentina	1838.38
3	1	France	1823.39
4	2	Belgium	1781.3
5		England	1774.19
6	2	Netherlands	1740.92
7	5	Croatia	1645.64
8	2	Italy	1723.56
9		Portugal	1702.54
10	3	Spain	1692.71
11	11	Morocco	1672.35
12	3	Switzerland	1655.02
13	3	United States	1652.74
14	3	Germany	1646.91
15	2	Mexico	1635.78
16	2	Uruguay	1627.45
17		Colombia	1612.78
18	8	Denmark	1608.11
19	1	Senegal	1603.98
20	4	Japan	1593.08
Complete rankings at FIFA.com

The FIFA World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, currently led by Germany. The teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. The rankings were introduced in December 1992, and eight teams (Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain) have held the top position, of which Brazil have spent longest ranked first.

A points system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of all FIFA-recognised full international matches. Under the existing system, rankings are based on a team's performance over the last four years, with more recent results and more significant matches being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team. The ranking system was most recently revamped after the 2006 World Cup, with the first edition of the new series of rankings issued on 12 July 2006. The most significant change is that the rankings are now based on results over the previous four years instead of the previous eight years. The change is perceived to respond to criticisms that the FIFA World Rankings, based upon the previous calculation method in use from January 1999 to June 2006, did not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams.

Alternative systems have been devised, such as the World Football Elo Ratings, based on the Elo rating system used in chess and Go, ranking teams on an all time basis. The Unofficial Football World Championships ranks teams on the number of times they have defended the Unofficial Football World Championship, an award devised solely for that purpose.

External links

• FIFA World Ranking
• FIFA rankings: A Guide to the very first '93 revision
• How the FIFA men's rankings are calculated
• Interactive world map of the FIFA rankings