NZ FIFA Ranking

It's part payback of the arrangement FIFA made with Charlie Dempsey.

FYI nightz, to jump 30 places, you would generally need to win a boat load of games (especially higher up the table when the points gap from where we were to where we got to is great) The only games we had at the Confeds, we got tonked. I had looked at the games we played and could not remember any so hence why I was baffled. As it was, I received a text saying 'Guess where the AWs are at' and after a back and forth, we had no idea how we had jumped so much so I was not actively going 'oooohhh I wonder where we are ranked'

Thank you so much for being extremely helpful. The time you wasted in replying actually gave me delight in telling you what I think. I also thank you for the equally as useless post that you accused mine of basically being.

If you followed the rankings on a regular basis you would know that you have just said alot of BS.

Suggest you have a decent look around the Fifa website and you can easily see the results of past games and why the rankings (not just ours) can jump about.

I dont consider getting people to investigate for themselves as "a useless post" unless they continue with their lazy ways and cant be arsed educating themselves.

Glad I delighted you.

All well and good Jeff Vader but as youve already posted (quote:" I'm rather baffled") you dont know what happened.

Sounds like you are going the same way as Darth.

Up 2 spots to 55 equal with Honduras.

^ this is good

dropped 2 places again back to 57, hondorus rose 12 to 43

NEW FIFA RANKINGS OUT:

Oh dear, NZ down ten places to 67 - but still, not far behind Scotland and Poland - would've been unthinkable in the 1980's when those sides were strong. Mighty Cape Verde Islands at 44, ahead of all three mentioned and ahead of Australia 53 !!! 

http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/index.html

Panama 35   Honduras 40  Mexico  21 (only down 1)  

France 25  Greece 12  Bosnia 18   Republic of Ireland 59             Sometimes just doesn't make much sense....

The teams below us must be real rubbish then...

Probably doesn't include the recent results v Saudi and UAE as the World Rankings are a bit slow to react - those results in fact wouldn't harm us as v Saudi counts as an away win and v UAE was on neutral territory, even if both are ranked lower. It's the lack of games between World Cup qualifiers in March and the present.

Cape Verde Islands were in fact extremely hard done by and will probably have a case for the International Court of Arbitration in Sport:

They have actually been expelled by FIFA from the upcoming African World Cup final qualification play-offs - and legally it's a mess.

The "ineligible player" they fielded in their recent win v Tunisia was in fact a player sent off v Equatorial Guinea in a qualifier earlier in the year which was annulled because Equatorial Guinea fielded an ineligible player. He's completely eligible to play for Cape Verde (a citizen born and bred) - just "ineligible" in FIFA's eyes for the Tunisia game because he was supposed to be suspended.

But the game he copped the suspension in was annulled and awarded as a 3-0 win to Cape Verde because Equatorial Guinea broke the rules by fielding  a player not eligible to play for that country. Naturally Cape Verde believed suspensions incurred in that game were also null and void....I have a feeling they could win their case - they'll be moral victors anyway!

Cape Verde (pop 500,000) are the biggest giant-killers of the year in international football and reached the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations in South Africa in February (undefeated in group play) - they qualified for the finals by beating the Cameroons home and away.

Faaarrk I didn't realise that the Cape Verde DQ was that messy Big Pete, cheers for that.

Latest rankings  17 Oct.: NZ down 12 places to 79

(giant-killers UAE up 11 places):

69	Poland	503	-4
70	Jordan	502	3
71	United Arab Emirates	496	11
71	Bolivia	496	-9
73	Sierra Leone	493	-1
74	Cuba	492	10
75	Togo	488	2
76	Bulgaria	487	-12
77	Morocco	478	-3
78	Dominican Republic	474	9
79	New Zealand	470	-12
80	Haiti	464	-2
81	Trinidad and Tobago	457	4
82	Jamaica	456	-4
83	Belarus	441	-3
84	Gabon	438	-1
85	Uganda	431	-4
86	FYR Macedonia	430	-11
87	Congo DR	411	4
88	Azerbaijan	407	19
89	El Salvador	404	4
90	Northern Ireland	399	-4

I'm surprised how low Bulgaria are (and Poland too)

I think for our relative fluctuations, we are about an 80th placed team. I think the current position is a better reflection of where we actually lie between 70 and 90. Looking at the teams in this zone, I think we match up and would be able to get consistent results (couple of draws, couple of wins, couple of losses)

Down 12 to 91

Need to play more meaningful games or the ranking means nothing really

Just thought, the rankings don't mean much to NZ at the moment really. (If we qualified for a World Cup or Confederations Cup) we would always be ranked in a low seeded pot.

However if we move to AFC or enter the Asia WC qualifying system then the rankings do become important all of a sudden. I believe the AFC use the FIFA world ranking system to help seed and draw the qualifying groups, and our low ranking could mean a harder group.

Ryan

Really interesting article on the BBC Sport website about FIFA World Rankings and how the World Cup seedings work

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25134584 

Good article

wow that slipped fast . down to 91

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/9929290/All-Whites-drop-outside-top-100-in-Fifa-rankings

The idle All Whites have dropped 21 places in the latest Fifa rankings released on Thursday.

Without a fulltime coach after Ricki Herbert's departure in November, the All Whites did not play in the latest rankings period, and now find themselves at 111th between Canada and Luxembourg.

In the March rankings, New Zealand dropped just one spot - from 89th to 90th - despite a 4-2 loss to Japan in Tokyo with a youthful lineup. Since being at No 55 in the July 2013 rankings, the All Whites have more than doubled their spot, largely due to being outplayed by Mexico in their two-leg World Cup qualifying playoff.

Can't take them too seriously - after all who seriously believes Greece are the tenth best side in the world (between Italy and England) and the Netherlands are 15th best below the USA ?

These rankings are a funny thing. I like how Uruguay, who probably would've missed out on qualification altogether if the WC wasn't being played in South America this year, are now seeded after only qualifying from a play off with Jordan.

just moved up 14 places to 97th

Wow 118. At first I was shocked but then remembered we haven't really won many games in the last 4 years...

Itll get worse at least until we get a DM

think we should beat at least malaysia

Iraq not Iran

went up two places woop woop haha

Latest rankings out:

Swaziland - 135

New Zealand-136

Thailand- 137

Myanmar -162

top 5- Argentian, Belgium; Germany; Columbia; Brazil.

Australia 61; Wales #9- ahead of England #10

Good article on how stupid the ranking system is and Romania have somehow managed to be ranked 7th in the world.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/sep/...

Maybe but how many games have Bermuda played recently?  More than NZ I'd wager without having a look.

Never wager without having a look!

Bermuda didn't play for about 3 years before March this year, but since then they've won 3, drawn 3, lost 1. I think that generally the rankings are mostly bollocks, but comparing that record to our last couple of years it doesn't seem unreasonable that they'd be ranked above us.

Dropped 12 places to 148th...

145	Thailand	196(196.12)	143.18	143.18	15.82	7.91	107.30	32.19	64.19	12.84
146	Kyrgyzstan	195(195.44)	110.07	110.07	63.65	31.83	178.46	53.54	0.00	0.00
147	Guinea-Bissau	193(192.68)	81.26	81.26	204.61	102.30	0.00	0.00	45.58	9.12
148	New Zealand	188(187.52)	27.54	27.54	36.39	18.20	317.33	95.20	232.90	46.58
149	Vietnam	187(186.71)	96.99	96.99	122.15	61.08	38.22	11.47	85.86	17.17
150	Afghanistan	183(183.06)	69.82	69.82	94.60	47.30	160.06	48.02	89.61	17.92
150	Guam	183(182.54)	124.43	124.43	64.25	32.13	52.21	15.66	51.60	10.32

Not surprising considering we've only played 1 game last month, Myanmar, drawing 1-1.