The ranking has just been updated.
Does it represent reality? Discuss
http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/index.html
Should Belgium really still be #2?
And why exactly is Colombia ranked so high?
>Brazil in the top 10
>chile below colombia
the fuck
>Mexico go on a one year winning run
>still that low
>>69538096
>Belgium
When will this meme team fuck off?
And I think 14th place is pretty fair for >us
>>69538105
Exactly what I was thinking. Especially when neither of those teams really shined during the Copa America/EuroCup
![zlatan_13_280x390_1103102a[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/poAd6wI.jpg "zlatan_13_280x390_1103102a[1].jpg")
>>69538096
Also, not shown in the image above, >we got cucked to the 40th place thanks to Ibrameme and Hamrén.
Not to mention this faggot didn't even bother to sing the national anthem. Ever.
>Wales above England
all is right
>>69538096
>Belgium
>muh golden generation
>achieved absolutely nothing
>still second
How ?
>>69538096
>we are below USA and Romania
Dark times
>England higher than Iceland and USA
>>69538096
>Belgium
Stopped reading right there9
>>69538187
We beat the shit out of irrelevant teams and become irrelevant against relevant teams.
How are Belgium and Colombia better than Germany? Bad ranking.
>>69538225
>Wales above England
accurate
>>69538238
>Wales relevant
What a time to be alive lads
FIFA rankings are broken because teams dont play eachother enough
Iceland are not the 22nd best team and Hungary is not 19th. They would both get stomped by plenty of teams in the Americas, Africa and Asia. They are only that high because they got a couple of meme wins over a couple of other Euro teams who have probably memed Germany or France at some point because they get to play Germany and France all the time
Iceland and Hungary wont even qualify for the World Cup
1. Argentina - literally 3 finals in a row, didn't lose any in regular time
2. Should honestly be Germany
anything else is just a fucking toss up
You can make a case for Chile since they haven't lost to Argentina, but they also have not won, and historically they never had the points to climb so high before so going up in rank is a slow process
but the rest? damn International football is just so shit now.
Super league when?
>>69538096
>move to 15th twelve spaces up for nothing
>England is somehow 13th
>Belgium second
>Euro winners 6th
It's a shit.
>Belgium
>literally never won anything ever in history
>lol #2
Muh meme players in meme country
>>69538590
you beat Spain and Turkey which were ranked higher
>>69538096
>Belgium
Just kill me, please.
>>69538096
>Everybody knows Belgium was ranked way too high
>They get exposed for being a shit Meme and are BTFO
>Still ranked 2nd
>Belgium
>lost the quarter finals 3-1 to Wales
>above the winner of Copa
>above the finalists of the Euro
>above the world champions
>>69538634
really makes u think huh
>>69538634
Belgium are the greatest quarter-finalists of all time
you literally cannot argue with this
>>69538096
>FIFA Rankings, sponsored by Escobar Cocaine and Waffles
A joke as usual, we dropped pretty hard though but i don't care we'l see what happens at the qualifiers
>>69538096
> Brazil top 10
> Argentina 1st
> Colombia 3rd
this is what's wrong. Chile should be 1st or 2nd. Portugal definetly should be top3 as well as Germany. Argentina 4th, Colombia and France 5th/6th place
Also Brazil is shit tier team right now. At the same level as Slovakia, Czech Republic or Russia. Maybe even lower.
>>69538609
Yeah, but I find that a joke. I'd understand moving a spot or two up, but flying twelve spaces and piggybacking Poland that's 16th now. That's just stupid, over two games. Progress in a tournament should count more. We peeped out of the group and got hammered instantly.
Iceland kicked England that's over them, tied with Portugal, tied with Hungary that's over them and got to quarters and they're 22nd, Poland got to quarters and they're one behinds us, while England is 13th after being booted by Iceland and drawing with Russia and Slovakia
This rankings don't say anything except that FIFA is a special place with special people.
>>69538695
>implying a team that beats everyone and draws in finals three years in a row is going to drop from #1
>>69538728
Yeah they beat Honduras, Bolivia, Venezuela, Panamá...
When they face good teams they either lose or draw. Chile is hands down the #1 team in South America
>>69538096
Belgium is way too high
Colombia should be No. 10 at best
Germany should be 3rd, Chile is fine
Portugal should be maybe 9th
France is fine
Spain shouldnt be in the top 10 as of now
Brazil shouldnt even be in the top 15 as of now
Italy should be from anywhere in No. 5-9
Wales is fine
Uruguay should be No. 16 at best
No. 13 to 21 shouldnt even be near 25th place, especially >Englel and the PU70 beaners
Iceland should be a little closer to the top 15
Slovakia and Romania no more than top 30
USA maybe near 17-20
Friendlies shouldn't count for rankings. Teams like Belgium for example can increase their rankings by arranging some matches against San Marino.
>>69538096
All those comments about Belgium
Stay salty cunts, Belgium get the ranking they deserve.
Also
>give us the damn WC already
>Poland, Croatia and Wales all up 10+ points
noice
>>69538096
we're too high lel
>Chile 5
>Portugal 6
JUST
>>69539566
Er. No.
>Belgium still second
>Colombia third
>Brazil above Italy
>>69538096
Kek we need to buy more coca cola desu
How accurate can it be if it's made by a soda company?
>>69538124
You have to go back
Why don't they use the Elo ranking system, they tried to make their own system but it's just bad. Colombia being above the world champions, the euro champions and the copa winners is just a complete joke.
>>69538096
>tfw we got Romania from pot 1 and Denmark from pot 2 for World Cup qualifiers
It's gonna be embarassing if we don't advance though
>>69538096
>lelgium
At least >we have been exposed as a meme team.
>>69538590
>>Euro winners 6th
To be fair they only won 2 matches in the Euro, I'm sure that has some impact.
>>69539380
>iceland
Come on m8, they were quarter finalists because they beat >Englel, let's not overreact and pretend they're world top 15.
>>69538096
>Colombia
>Belgium
Lol
>>69538116
>Mexico finally faces decent competition after a year of cupcakes
>gets completely and totally exposed as pretenders
did you not watch the Copa? Mexico sucks
>>69539566
Belgium's NT a shit. A SHIT!!!
>>69538096
I didn't know that Austria was that good, I have never seen it in a decisive match. Belgium and Colombia shouldn't be in the top 3. Chile 5th position is right IMO crackers
>>69538096
>Belgium 2nd
>Colombia 3rd
>Brazil in the Top 10
>Spain ahead of Italy
>England unironically behind Croatia and Poland
wew
>>69538096
That ranking is nonsense, but is actually used by FIFA to make pots for groups at the WC. Lelgium is likely to be top team
>still higher than the Ameriturds in both Fifa and Elo ratings
Feels good man
>>69538096
Maybe I'm confused... But after this Copa, Chile claimed their 2nd victory, Argentina came in 2nd, Columbia 3rd, and USA 4th, yet Argentina is the best team in the world and Columbia is rated higher than Chile. Teams that didn't even make it out of groups, like Brazil, are 9th. Ecuador are even higher than the US, which is a lie.
And why are Belgium and Germany also rated so highly? Belgium did nothing this Euro except boost Hazard's confidence against small teams and Germany was humiliated by France, who was then in turned humiliated by Portugal, but still played better than Portugal. Why is Spain also still top 10 as well?
>>69538695
>Portugal definetly should be top3
Why? the ranking is based on actual results and weighted against the sides you play and the year they were played in.
You drew 4 of the 7 games you played in the Euros.
>>69539394
No, they should be counted. And at present the score isn't weighted in their favour.
>>69538225
England are better than Iceland and USA
England would win 9 from 10 games against Iceland, they just were unlucky
>>69543985
>humiliated by Portugal
Please stop posting, you will never understand this sport
>>69543985
>which is a lie.
The ranking is simply not based on a handful of recent results, Bostonbro.
>Uruguay 12
Top cuck, we should be in the 20s
>>69538167
b-but zlatan is a national hero
>laughing pepe
>>69538910
i hope you realize Argentina beat Chile twice this year and then drew the final
>portufags
>>69547994
>drew the final
We lost 0-0
>>69548016
It's a draw when it comes to the points for the ranking.
I don't think they take penalties into account.
>USA that high
wew lads, we /soccer/ now
>Not even in the top 25
I know we aren't what we used to be but come on fám this list is a joke
>>69548039
Not qualifying to the euros killed the Neverlands ranking since all those cup games have a ton of points.
Once the WC qualifying games start it'll go up quickly.
>>69538167
What's the gypsy national anthem?
>>69548036
Nigga, you are the only first world country win the world with more than 150M people (and you have twice that), you MUST be top 10 if only 1% of your population cared about it (I'm sure you have more than that)
You still manage to underperform
>>69548036
>The American NT is unironically better than the Dutch NT now
Why hasn't the entire KNVB staff been sacked yet? Especially Blind sr, the man is Hodgson tier incompetent.
>>69538096
>get 7-0'd
>move up two spots
Mexishits
>belgium still 2
>mexico at 14 while the US is at 25
>colombia at 3
>brazil at 9
I know these take in to account past results but fuck the end result is a terrible.
I remember USA being in the top 10 when Joe Max Moore was one of our best players
>FIFA rankings
>represent reality
Pick one.
>>69548072
you have a population of 40 million, 20 million males, about 15 million of which would lose a testicle to become a soccer player whether they were born in 1950 or 2005
I bet you we don't even have 5 million that would choose soccer over handegg, basketball,or even baseball. Even swimming is bigger than soccer here. Fucking s-w-i-m-m-i-n-g. We have swimming olympic trials every day on public television but to find soccer you need a specific cable package
>be dutch
>be prone to the balding disease
>be tall
>still can't play basketball
>still can't play volleyball
>can't even play handball
>the country manlets can't even play soccer
but your women can play hockey well
why are dutch men so impotent?
the only saving grace are those husky frisians speed skating for your country, or else it would be a total embarrassment
>Northern Ireland qualifies to Ro16
>Drops two places
fuck fifa
>>69548077
Didn't they make some changes after failing to qualify for nerfed Euros?
>>69548230
>forgetting amd amx
>>69538113
>Brazil in the top 20
Be honest, a team with Nerman is shit no matter the other 10.
>>69538667
the fuck does that even mean? The greatest loser goes to Netherlands
>Ecuador in the top 20
>US does Better in the copa then anyone ever expected yet is still only 25th, somehow still below fucking Romania
>England has no manager and plays terribly in the euros yet is still top 15
>Brazil
>>69538096
Why don't they let you sort by 2016 points only? Or by points in the past year only?
Might be more indicative of current form and would make the rankings much less controversial.
Also: the point system gives no fucks about how well a team played, or how lucky or undeserved a result. Losing = 0, winning in regulation = 1000+points depending on goal differential and competition. Not much room for nuance.
>All these madness and tears over a ranking made by fucking FIFA
shake my head two bee hones't
>>69538116
Drawing in official matches vs the likes of Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago hurts the ranking badly. Then the matches we won vs big teams other than Uruguay were friendlies.
I'm just glad we didn't go below the US.
>>69548616
It takes into account 4 years worth of matches. Also in the past year you have lost a tremendous amount of matches. Just on top of my head.
Colombia x2
Argentina
>Guatemala
>Mexico
>Jamaica
Those were all official matches. How the fuck do you expect to be in top 20?
>>69549649
We turned around and demolished Guatemala in the second game, and got really close to beating Columbia in the 3rd place game
Argentina shouldn't change anything, they're #2 or 3 in the world
>>69549778
>got really close to beating
you get 0 points for this.
you get 0 points for losing by 4 as well.
if you don't like the ranking, blame the team for not getting results.
>>69549778
That's not how the ranking works, dude. It's not so floaty like that.
That said I don't think it's exactly fair for the weaker confederations, because the top 10 teams constantly play other top 10 teams so for them to leave the top they have to miss a cup like Netherlands did.
>>69538096
Mexico shouldn't be anywhere near the top 20
>34th
Nice. Perú will do their best in the qualifiers too!
>Lelgium and Congolombia above Chile
lol
>>69538633
>Peru
>>69538096
>England
>Iceland
Says all really.
>>69538096
>Ecuador
>17
You can't justify the US being lower than Ecuador after beating them twice in the past two months. So either the US is 17 or better, or Ecuador doesn't deserve to be in the top 25.
>>69538343
What Hungary is good they drew against the European champion... Probably better than Australia
How can Canada be so bad?
There are quality athletes here, this is fact. Certainly more than many of the countries ranked above it.
Does it come down to just poor infrastructure and coaching which leads to poor development?
1. argentina - okayy
2. belgium - literally what
3. colombia quite literally what
4. germany
5. chile
h-hol HOL UP
you're telling me belgium is above the copa holder and wc holder? argentina anywhere in the top is fine but BELGIUM??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
where are they getting points from?
>>69550255
Academies in Canada are shit compared to Europe. The skill gap is just too big right now.
>>69550255
>a
>fucking
>leaf
>athletes
WHO THE FUCK CARES?
The point is that Portugal and Chile won their respective continental cups and that is it. Nobody cares about this useless ranking.
>>69538096
>>69550255
Soccer Canada was corrupt as shit until recently, and all infrastructure at youth level is trash. Anyone talented has to move to Europe at a young age to achieve anything because there just aren't the systems in place for any actually talented players to reach their potential here
>>69550319
It's used for seeding the world cup friend.
>>69550286
>asks where belgium is getting points
>website shows precise breakdown of points on a per-match basis
you'd have the answer in less time than it took you to enter all those question marks.
>>69550349
Seed my balls
>>69538096
>FIFA ackowledges Copa America Centenario as an official continental competition.
>Win Copa America.
>Don't even move in the rankings.
For fucks sake, FIFA.
>>69550346
It seems like a sad truth for a variety of sports. I remember reading Lennox Lewis saying how the infrastructure to build world class talent in boxing simply wasn't around for him.
Hockey or bust
1. Germany
2. France
3. Argentina
4. Chile
5. Spain
6. Italy
7. Colombia
8. Belgium
9. Brazil
10. Wales
debate me, faggot.
>>69550404
>ameriburger
>>69538343
If Australia was in any qualifying group in Europe they would never qualify for the World Cup
>>69550381
>Uruguay is seeded for the 2014 WC thanks to these shitty rankings
>"Finally we'll have an easy start!"
>Become seed of the group of death with Italy, England and Costa Rica. Three world champions and a nobody.
>Costa Rica ends up being the best
ayyyyy
You know this is just made up to sort the pots for the next WC right? It's not intended to show who is the best team in the world
>>69550404
>germany that high
>france that high
>brazil that high
>wales that high
your list is shit m8
>>69549778
>Columbia
>this thread
>>69538238
Why am I Almost sure that you guys are gonna choke against us in the qualifiers ? Dont thikn that we ll take first spot from you, but i have a feeling you ll be the ones losing points to us and not the opposite.
