Monday, September 21, 2009

2014 FIFA World Cup seeding for CONCACAF teams (21 September 2009)

The preliminary draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup took place on November 25th, 2007 and used the May 2007 FIFA ranking (for CONCACAF).

Assumptions:

- CONCACAF will again have 3.5 spots
- CONCACAF will again use the same qualifying system
- FIFA will use the FIFA ranking to seed the teams

The May 2011 FIFA ranking will include matches played between May 2007 and May 2011. We already have the "0.2" and "0.3" parts (matches played between May 2007 and May 2009) - that's basically 25% of the final ranking and a bit of the "0.5" part (matches played between May 2009 and May 2010). A lot can and will change before May 2011 as there are many matches to be played involving CONCACAF teams: 2009 Gold Cup knockout stages, 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010 Caribbean Championship, 2011 UNCAF Nations Cup and plenty of friendlies.

This is the May 2011 ranking (for CONCACAF only) using matches played up to and including September 20th, 2009 and matches scheduled up to May 2010 (only those on fifa.com).

The "0.5" part is computed this way: points gained / (number of matches played + scheduled).

St. Vincent and the Grenadines replace Belize in the 5th pot.

Rank - Previous rank - Team - Total points
 1  1 USA                            490
2 2 Mexico 447
3 3 Honduras 368
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4 4 Canada 354
5 5 Costa Rica 321
6 6 El Salvador 234
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7 7 Panama 208
8 8 Jamaica 206
9 9 Haiti 174
10 10 Trinidad and Tobago 152
11 11 Grenada 115
12 12 Antigua and Barbuda 112
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13 13 Guatemala 90
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14 14 Cuba 87
15 15 Bermuda 80
16 16 Barbados 70
17 17 Suriname 63
18 20 St. Kitts and Nevis 56
19 18 Guyana 53
19 18 Nicaragua 53
21 21 Netherlands Antilles 50
22 22 Puerto Rico 48
23 24 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 26
24 23 Cayman Islands 24
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25 24 Belize 22
26 26 St. Lucia 13
26 26 Turks and Caicos Islands 13
28 28 British Virgin Islands 12
29 29 Bahamas 9
30 30 Aruba 7
31 31 Dominica 5
32 32 US Virgin Islands 3
33 33 Anguilla 0
33 33 Dominican Republic 0
33 33 Montserrat 0

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2 comments:

  1. Hi: Have read your Blog , and your
    work is good ,but can we get some
    Info on who the 4th place team in
    CONCACAF will play , I meant which
    Confederation will rival Concacaf
    during the 2014 Qualifiers? . In 2010
    Qualifiers its was AFC V OCEANIA ETC

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  2. Hi! No, I have no info regarding the 2014 World Cup intercontinental play-offs. First of all, that's because FIFA hasn't announced the spot allocations for the 2014 WC. This will happen in December 2010.

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