1 Argentina 1867.25 0 -16.25
2 France 1859.78 0 -0.06
3 Spain 1853.27 0 8.95
4 England 1813.81 0 5.98
5 Brazil 1775.85 0 -8.52
6 Portugal 1756.12 1 3.44
7 Netherlands 1747.55 1 -0.69
8 Belgium 1740.62 -2 -20.65
9 Italy 1731.51 0 2.11
10 Germany 1703.79 1 0.20
11 Uruguay 1695.91 3 15.55
12 Colombia 1694.45 -2 -29.93
13 Croatia 1691.59 -1 -9.78
14 Morocco 1688.18 -1 6.60
15 Japan 1652.79 0 7.69
16 United States 1639.75 2 8.78
17 Senegal 1637.25 3 10.12
18 Iran 1635.31 1 7.73
19 Mexico 1632.54 -3 -8.13
20 Switzerland 1625.16 -3 -6.22
21 Denmark 1611.49 0 -5.85
22 Austria 1589.84 1 0.67
23 South Korea 1585.45 -1 -4.48
24 Ecuador 1560.13 3 23.81
25 Ukraine 1554.94 0 2.57
26 Australia 1544.15 -2 -8.63
27 Sweden 1540.20 1 9.79
28 Türkiye 1537.24 -2 -10.91
29 Wales 1534.39 0 5.43
30 Hungary 1517.57 2 -1.76
31 Serbia 1514.28 2 3.12
32 Egypt 1513.48 -2 -12.76
33 Canada 1512.51 2 5.24
34 Russia 1512.32 0 3.60
35 Poland 1510.62 -4 -12.57
36 Panama 1500.29 3 6.49
37 Algeria 1495.85 0 -1.09
38 Romania 1494.20 4 6.98
39 Greece 1489.88 3 2.45
40 Peru 1488.42 -2 -5.81
41 Slovakia 1486.19 0 -3.69
42 Czechia 1484.88 3 4.49
43 Norway 1484.44 5 10.94
44 Nigeria 1482.23 -8 -21.06
45 Scotland 1480.24 6 18.90
46 Côte d'Ivoire 1478.47 -6 -15.10
47 Venezuela 1475.71 -3 -6.76
48 Qatar 1474.60 -2 -4.00
49 Cameroon 1471.49 0 -0.63
50 Chile 1469.44 3 14.22
51 Mali 1466.10 3 11.26
52 Tunisia 1464.42 -5 -14.10
53 Costa Rica 1459.09 -3 -6.49
54 Paraguay 1458.26 1 17.48
55 Slovenia 1454.25 -3 -5.34
56 Iraq 1442.86 0 8.46
57 South Africa 1428.87 3 12.89
58 Uzbekistan 1424.93 0 -4.33
59 Saudi Arabia 1406.56 0 -16.11
60 Ireland 1400.22 3 4.61
61 Jamaica 1396.58 0 -8.78
62 Democratic Republic of Congo 1395.77 -5 -35.53
63 United Arab Emirates 1385.57 5 24.23
64 Jordan 1375.91 0 -4.84
65 Albania 1375.57 0 -3.71
66 Burkina Faso 1373.76 -4 -26.04
67 North Macedonia 1368.96 1 7.95
68 Georgia 1362.21 -1 -3.35
69 Finland 1361.53 -3 -13.05
70 Iceland 1355.10 0 1.92
71 Northern Ireland 1349.58 0 4.52
72 Cape Verde Islands 1328.51 0 -12.36
73 Montenegro 1326.76 2 3.56
74 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1326.69 0 2.25
75 Israel 1322.25 6 18.60
76 Honduras 1320.78 1 8.13
77 Ghana 1320.52 -4 -18.22
78 Guinea 1311.88 0 -0.57
79 Bolivia 1308.58 -1 -3.78
80 Oman 1306.67 0 0.67
81 Bahrain 1305.52 -5 -8.28
82 Bulgaria 1301.04 2 5.93
83 El Salvador 1300.81 0 2.82
84 Gabon 1297.87 1 3.76
85 Angola 1296.48 -3 -2.27
86 Haiti 1287.75 0 4.08
87 Zambia 1279.24 7 27.40
88 Uganda 1270.42 -1 0.63
89 New Zealand 1269.83 2 11.73
90 China 1266.38 2 9.09
91 Curaçao 1264.78 -1 3.91
92 Luxembourg 1256.42 -3 -5.66
92 Equatorial Guinea 1256.20 -4 -10.49
94 Benin 1250.98 1 0.02
95 Syria 1249.47 -2 -2.71
96 Mozambique 1232.70 2 3.70
97 Thailand 1228.24 -1 -3.51
98 Belarus 1226.31 -1 -4.79
99 Kosovo 1219.82 1 1.61
100 Armenia 1219.15 -1 -3.59
101 Palestine 1215.87 -1 -2.56
102 Trinidad and Tobago 1214.81 0 0.00
103 Comoros 1208.99 5 23.01
104 Tajikistan 1203.08 1 6.10
105 Guatemala 1201.34 0 0.00
106 Tanzania 1199.33 6 25.49
107 Kyrgyzstan 1194.19 -4 -12.89
108 Kenya 1189.65 -2 -5.71
109 Mauritania 1183.15 5 14.72
110 Kazakhstan 1180.18 -3 -6.27
111 Namibia 1179.27 2 5.46
112 Lebanon 1171.43 3 3.94
113 Sudan 1165.41 -3 -10.79
114 North Korea 1164.41 -3 -10.74
115 Madagascar 1162.02 -6 -17.98
116 Vietnam 1161.11 0 0.00
117 Azerbaijan 1158.70 1 -3.10
118 Libya 1158.03 4 9.33
119 Togo 1152.18 4 4.28
120 Guinea-Bissau 1151.72 -4 -14.61
121 Zimbabwe 1151.06 -4 -11.43
122 Niger 1145.96 9 31.23
123 Estonia 1142.53 1 -2.99
124 Rwanda 1136.06 2 6.02
125 Indonesia 1135.11 5 16.23
126 Gambia 1134.69 2 9.07
127 India 1133.62 -2 -0.16
128 Congo 1132.65 -8 -26.77
129 Sierra Leone 1132.06 -8 -17.76
130 Cyprus 1131.32 -3 3.81
131 Malawi 1129.31 3 18.15
132 Malaysia 1117.05 1 3.13
133 Nicaragua 1114.28 0 0.00
134 Kuwait 1109.16 1 2.74
135 Central African Republic 1102.23 -6 -23.03
136 Surinam 1100.05 0 -5.24
137 Botswana 1098.85 3 10.40
138 Faroe Islands 1096.88 0 5.36
139 Burundi 1087.26 0 -2.23
140 Latvia 1084.11 -3 -9.71
141 Dominican Republic 1083.36 1 11.48
142 Lithuania 1069.96 -1 -12.40
143 Turkmenistan 1065.42 0 0.00
144 St. Kitts and Nevis 1064.99 -1 -4.26
145 Liberia 1063.04 4 14.18
146 Ethiopia 1059.94 2 10.66
147 Fiji 1049.15 -1 -2.25
148 Solomon Islands 1048.75 -1 -2.24
149 Philippines 1047.73 -4 -5.36
150 Lesotho 1046.76 2 13.96
151 Moldova 1045.59 -1 4.76
152 New Caledonia 1034.43 3 13.59
153 Tahiti 1031.47 6 21.94
154 Guyana 1030.60 7 21.91
155 Afghanistan 1025.00 -4 -9.37
156 Hong Kong 1024.58 2 9.48
157 Puerto Rico 1022.83 -4 1.21
158 Yemen 1017.84 -4 -3.41
159 Eswatini 1015.25 1 6.06
160 Antigua and Barbuda 1010.97 -4 -9.61
161 Singapore 1007.83 1 -0.43
162 Maldives 1001.39 1 -2.09
163 Vanuatu 996.21 -6 -19.31
164 Cuba 994.43 2 4.26
165 Taiwan 990.92 3 5.26
166 Bermuda 988.19 1 1.67
167 St. Lucia 985.72 -3 -12.14
168 Malta 983.95 1 3.45
169 Myanmar 982.83 -4 -8.16
170 South Sudan 973.55 2 17.88
171 Andorra 971.54 -1 -6.42
172 Papua New Guinea 963.22 -1 -9.10
173 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 961.92 1 7.06
174 Grenada 955.44 1 8.23
175 Nepal 939.20 1 3.27
176 Chad 935.41 1 2.02
177 Barbados 933.29 -4 -21.91
178 Belize 925.02 0 0.00
179 Mauritius 923.46 -1 -4.12
180 Cambodia 921.20 0 0.00
181 Montserrat 914.25 -1 -9.88
182 Bhutan 904.06 0 0.00
183 Dominica 900.00 0 -3.54
184 Brunei 899.87 0 -0.88
185 Bangladesh 898.81 0 2.09
186 Laos 889.54 1 -0.08
187 Mongolia 883.57 0 0.00
188 American Samoa 883.17 0 0.00
189 São Tomé and Príncipe 878.09 0 0.00
190 Cook Islands 877.53 0 0.00
191 Djibouti 877.37 1 2.24
192 Samoa 876.41 -6 -14.36
193 Macao 871.52 0 0.00
194 Cayman Islands 866.71 0 0.00
195 Aruba 858.00 0 -5.29
196 Eritrea 855.56 0 0.00
197 Timor Leste 850.83 0 0.00
198 Gibraltar 848.58 0 0.26
199 Pakistan 842.59 0 0.00
200 Tonga 835.64 0 0.00
201 Sri Lanka 832.80 3 3.41
202 Seychelles 831.19 0 0.00
203 Somalia 829.81 0 0.00
204 Guam 821.91 0 0.00
205 Liechtenstein 821.71 -4 -12.44
206 Bahamas 818.58 0 0.00
207 Turks and Caicos Islands 803.98 0 0.00
208 British Virgin Islands 780.30 0 0.00
209 US Virgin Islands 779.71 0 0.00
210 Anguilla 769.31 0 0.00
211 San Marino 747.42 0 10.39
Regarding the uefa world cup 2026 qualifiers draw, here are my insights regarding the constraints and options:
ReplyDelete1 QF winners on 4 QF losers on 5 England, switzerland on 5
2 Ukraine Turkey Hungary Serbia Greece Slovakia on 4 Sweden Wales Poland Romania Czech Norway on 5 Belgium Austria on 4
3 Scotland Slovenia Ireland Georgia Iceland on 4 One spot available on 4, 6 spots on 5 - Albania, North Maccedonia, Finland, North Ireland, Montenegro, Bosnia, Iarael
4 Bulgaria Luxemburg Kosovo Armenia Latvia on 4 One spot available on 4, 6 spots on 5 - Belarus Kazakhstan Azerbaijan Estonia Cyprus Faroe islands Lithuania
5 Malta Gibraltar on 5 with England and switzerland Moldova Andorra Liechtenstein San marino on other 5 groups
I was wrong about the Play-in round (my assumption was based on the fact it is played under the Nations League logo and it acts like a qualification for the qualifers) and furthermore it seems they had considered I=25 for the quarter-finals too, contrary to the previous edition.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, exactly opposite of what was assumed, the quarter finals have an I of 25 where we expected 15, and the play-ins indeed have 25 where probably 15 would also have been expected. Other than that they also excluded Myanmar v Lebanon.
DeleteAnother strange thing is that normally for matches with I=25 the team losing doesn't lose any points, but in this case the losers lose points.
DeleteYes about the nations league, but actually the nations league finals are the only case where teams don't lose points with I=25. In all the other cases (World Cup qualifiers or continental qualifiers) teams always lose points. Probably the fact that quarter finals are home-away matches is the discriminant to not treat this round as part of the "main competition", like semi-finals and final in single leg.
DeleteYes, but the rule that I had programmed (by lack of such a rule being published) was that if the match had an "I" of 25 or more then the loser wouldn't lose points. That doesn't hold anymore for this new decision which will probably now also be applied for the UEFA Nations League. Yeah, could be that the matches are played over two legs, but it would be nice if FIFA could just be transparent with these things. It's actually a strange situation that the quarter finals are played over two legs when the semi finals and final aren't. It really just is a money-making decision. I actually also find the quarter finals out of place in something called a Nations LEAGUE. I'd prefer to go back to having only group winners qualifying, and then maybe having the 4 group winners playing in a round-robin LEAGUE to find the winner. Then if the teams are tied, just go to number of cards or something.
DeleteI agree with you that quarter-finals don't make sense, even more in the CNL because the format of the group stage, for the league A, is simply horrible.
DeleteThe coefficient of 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League Quarter-finals is 15.
DeleteThe coefficient of 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League Quarter-finals is 25. (serve as 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup Preliminary round ?)
Hello, Homer! Thanks for keeping the site running. Could you also keep updating the full FIFA ranking breakdown Excel file "points calculation"? It's here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.football-rankings.info/p/important-info-2.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tuyqdoakl1S346d8tCc4lie9HsEF2HiA
Thanks in advance!
Hi Professor, unfortunately I don't have a copy of Excel for this and I already update my own archive, but perhaps there's a volunteer who could do this? If not, I'll try to think of another way the same can be achieved in another way.
DeleteI also join the request. You can download the file mentioned here in the blog, trough the links that professor provided in its comment above
DeleteWhat is the order of calculation?
ReplyDelete15 November 2024
Romania - Kosovo (On 20 November 2024, awarded as a 3–0)
18 November 2024
Kosovo 1–0 Lithuania
Romania 4–1 Cyprus
Romania - Kosovo match played in 15 November or 20 November ?
Romania - Kosovo was awarded as if it was played on Nov 15.
DeleteGenerally if the match is awarded before the FIFA ranking is published then the original match date is used. If it is awarded after the ranking is published, then it is applied before any matches take place for the next ranking. As FIFA doesn't publish its rules for this, you can assume the first day of the ranking period, which is typically 4 days before the previous ranking is published if you still follow me. But it could just as easily be the same day or the day before the first match is played for the next ranking period. The points exchange just needs to be added before other matches. Luckily UEFA is pretty quick in making these decisions. With CAF it can take them a while, especially if the decision is challenged and then we've seen strange number exchanges.
DeleteHi, can anyone show the points exchange of Group D of the AFCON qualifiers? My numbers of those teams don't match. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYour problem probably has to do with the match Libya v Nigeria from October that was awarded to the away team and applied before the matches from Group D in November. Nigeria and Libya exchange 5.1 points because of that. Let me know if that doesn't help.
DeleteYes, it solves the problem and now everything matches. Thank you so much.
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