FIFA World ranking: World champions Germany on top, as Nigeria move up 10 places to 34th

Four-time world champions Germany are reaping the rewards of their triumph at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ in this edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. The World Cup Final against Argentina was also a duel for the leading position in the world ranking – with Joachim Low’s team coming out on top on both counts.

Germany lead the table for the first time in around 20 years, followed by Argentina and the Netherlands. The Oranje’s third-place finish at the World Cup has propelled them 12 positions up the table and back into the top ten. All of the teams that exited the World Cup in the quarter-finals have climbed up the ranking: Colombia (fourth, up four), Belgium (fifth, up six), France (tenth, up seven) and Costa Rica (16th, up 12 – the Ticos’ highest-ever ranking).

If the winners have gained, the less successful teams are left counting the cost of failure in their ranking positions. Former champions Spain have fallen from the top spot to eighth place, while Portugal (11th, down seven), Italy (14th, down five) and England (20th, down ten) have all dropped out of the top ten following their first-round exits. World Cup hosts Brazil, meanwhile, have dropped four places to seventh position.

The results of 111 international “A” matches have been taken into account for the current edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, of which 64 were played at the World Cup in Brazil, 46 were friendlies and one was a CONCACAF continental qualifier. In this qualifier for the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2015, Turks and Caicos Islands (181st, up 26) celebrated their first victory in over six years against the British Virgin Islands, lifting them off the bottom of the table. The total number of international “A” matches taken into account so far this year is now 362.

Team	Pts	+/- Pos	Jul 14
1	Germany	1724	1
2	Argentina	1606	3
3	Netherlands	1496	12
4	Colombia	1492	4
5	Belgium	1401	6
6	Uruguay	1330	1
7	Brazil	1241	-4
8	Spain	1229	-7
9	Switzerland	1216	-3
10	France	1202	7
11	Portugal	1148	-7
12	Chile	1098	2
13	Greece	1091	-1
14	Italy	1056	-5
15	USA	989	-2
16	Costa Rica	986	12
17	Croatia	955	1
18	Mexico	930	2
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	917	2
20	England	911	-10
21	Ecuador	901	5
22	Ukraine	898	-6
23	Russia	897	-4
24	Algeria	872	-2
25	Côte d'Ivoire	850	-2
26	Denmark	807	-3
27	Scotland	734	0
28	Romania	733	1
29	Sweden	724	3
30	Venezuela	720	10
31	Serbia	717	-1
32	Turkey	714	3
33	Panama	684	-2
34	Nigeria	664	10
35	Czech Republic	646	-1
36	Egypt	645	0
37	Slovenia	644	-12
38	Hungary	642	9
38	Ghana	642	-1
40	Honduras	637	-7
41	Armenia	635	-3
42	Tunisia	621	6
43	Austria	614	-1
44	Wales	606	-3
45	Japan	604	1
46	Slovakia	588	3
47	Iceland	570	5
48	Paraguay	566	2
49	Iran	563	-6
50	Montenegro	559	1

• Rnk	Team	Pts	+/- Pos	Jul 14
  51	Guinea	555	1
  52	Uzbekistan	523	7
  53	Norway	520	2
  53	Cameroon	520	3
  55	Finland	508	6
  56	Korea Republic	501	1
  57	Jordan	500	6
  58	Burkina Faso	495	2
  59	Peru	487	-14
  60	Mali	483	-3
  61	Poland	478	8
  62	Senegal	476	12
  63	Libya	471	1
  64	Sierra Leone	469	-10
  65	United Arab Emirates	466	7
  66	South Africa	450	-1
  67	Albania	444	-1
  67	Israel	444	8
  69	Oman	443	10
  70	Republic of Ireland	440	0
  71	Bolivia	429	-4
  72	Bulgaria	425	6
  73	Azerbaijan	410	10
  74	FYR Macedonia	406	6
  75	Cape Verde Islands	401	-36
  76	Australia	397	-14
  77	Zambia	396	-1
  78	Saudi Arabia	384	12
  79	Morocco	377	-2
  79	Angola	377	14
  81	Belarus	376	1
  82	Congo	375	3
  83	Jamaica	373	-2
  84	Trinidad and Tobago	369	-13
  85	Palestine	362	9
  86	Qatar	361	14
  87	Uganda	358	-1
  88	Togo	357	0
  89	Northern Ireland	356	1
  89	Iraq	356	15
  91	Benin	354	-4
  92	Estonia	345	6
  93	Gabon	344	-4
  94	China PR	342	9
  95	Kenya	339	13
  96	Congo DR	338	-12
  96	Georgia	338	0
  98	Zimbabwe	334	1
  99	Botswana	332	-7
  99	Niger	332	13