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Latest rankings

Don't know if you guys care but NZ has pushed up 28 places in the latest FIFA world rankings. We are still 4th in OFC and at present on rank the 5th ranked asian team is (suprise suprise - Australia)

Just released by FIFA:

Argentina back on top

There has been yet another change - the sixth this year - at the top
of the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. Argentina (1st, up 1)
have cruised back to the top after a superb start to the South
American qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup� while Italy (3rd,
down 2) have seen Brazil (2nd, up 1) overtake them despite two recent
victories after the devaluation of other wins from previous years
(most notably the one against Ukraine in October 2006).

The other changes in the top ten and the places just outside it are a
reflection of the results of EURO 2008 qualifiers. France (4th, up 2)
and Spain (6th, up 1) have moved up the ladder while Germany (5th,
down 1) and the Netherlands (7th, down 2) have paid for defeat by
dropping down a notch or two.

The 3-0 victory chalked up by the Czech Republic (9th, up 2) in
Germany has put them back in the top ten, ousting England (11th, down
2) in the process. Scotland (13th, up 1) and Greece (14th, up 1) have
both edged upwards, with Scotland celebrating their best place since
the World Ranking was introduced in 1993. England's conquerors,
Russia (16th, up 10), count as one of the big movers, having regained
the territory they last occupied some ten years ago.

Norway (21st, up 8), Senegal (34th, up 6), Mali (40th, up 9) and
Hungary (48th, up 7) have all jumped more than five places inside the
top 50. Farther back, Cyprus (57th, up 11), Moldova (61st, up 20) and
Georgia (71st, up 33) are also causing a few ripples while St.
Vincent and the Grenadines (73rd, up 24), Liechtenstein (119th, up
23), NEW ZEALAND (128th, up 28) and Luxembourg (150th, up 26) have
all rocketed more than twenty places.

- The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on Friday,
23 November 2007.

Oceania rankings:
120= Solomon Islands
120= New Caledonia
127 Fiji
128 New Zealand
131 Vanuatu
149 Samoa
162 Tahiti
168 Tonga
183 Papua New Guinea
199 Cook Islands
200 American Samoa

I am surprised they including the fiji result already. I thought they did it by calender month. So results upto end of Sept. Interesting.

Just ran some calcs.

lol come on m8, It makes no diffrence what there rated @- Its not like the team is going to perform any diffrent if there rated higher or lower. That being said - If NZ do play Vietnam and/or China before the year end(Unless NZ sendout there olympic squard) and NZ win they should jump to around 92nd or lower depending on other results from other confeds/Nations. convict2007-10-25 07:24:53

Hmmm hate to think what would happen if u had the Asian/Oceaina play off with Iraq?.

thats easy, forefit the world cup...we are not about whats good for our country but whats good for everyone else.

But don't aren't the Aussie team Croatians or from some other country that's in the throws of war at the moment???

Problem solved, Play the home games in Aus since it does hold the largest KIWI population -infact its larger then the Current Asian population in Aus.

We used to be the outcast zone, Israel, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei).  Now we're the outcasts for only playing with our political friends.

Why? One leg would be played here, probably in Auckland, but hopefully in Wellington, and the other leg would be played either in Jordan or Syria. End of story.

Not really sure what you mean, but here goes. There are a few Australian-born Croats playing for Australia. The best known of those is Mark Viduka, but Josip Skoko and Zeljko Kalac have also featured recently. There are also Australian-born Croats playing for Croatia - Joe Simunic, Joey Didulica (though he's very much the third choice keeper) and Anthony Seric, although the latter has fallen out of favour with the Slaven Bilic, the Croatian national coach, and is unlikely to feature for Croatia again.
There is also a number of Australian-born Croats in the A-league, including Mark Rudan, Ante Covic, Ante Milicic and quite a few others.
Finally, the war in Croatia ended in 1995.

who knows where there is an explanation of the rankings system and calculator?

How on earth are Northern Ireland 37... well I know how.  If we played more games and of those far more competitive matches we would be top 50 too.

Marius

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/procedure/men.html Hard News2007-10-25 21:20:33

Because last year they beat Spain 3-2 and Sweden 2-1, and have just drawn 1-1 against Sweden last week. With our current squad we wouldn't be able to match any of these results, even in friendlies, so we wouldn't make it to top 50.
They also beat England 1-0 in the last World Cup qualifying cycle.el grapadura2007-10-25 21:43:39

I'm happy for the AW's but to be honest I just hate the FIFA rankings. I think these guys must be pretty pissed most of the day cause sometimes certain ranking just make no sense at all.

They will start getting dizzy at such lofty heights, only eight behind the Solomon's. Skaman2007-10-26 08:43:35

U where almost spot-on.

yayyyyy