New FIFA rankings: Australia Asias #1 team

FIFA rankings released, Asia's premier team: Australia.

Bow down to the new masters of Asian football, Australia.

33 Australia 738 9 126

47 Iran 624 -24 -62

49 Japan 615 -31 -90

50 Uzbekistan 606 10 35

56 Korea Republic 557 -27 -120

81 Saudi Arabia 399 -47 -252 - PATHETIC.

The Asian Cup qualifers should move Australia into the the top 20 by the end of the year.

 

Oops I just posted the same thing

But anyway Australia are now the best in Asian Football in less than seven months!

 

i was about to say that...

 

I still think its too hard to rank any teams as its just much to unreliable in todays world football state. Its not as if #5 is a cert to beat #40 anymore. It is nice that australia are starting to move up the rankings no matter how dodgy they are.

 

#6 should be Qatar

the Only surprise is we are still in Asian Top 10

 

Whatever happened to that noahmitch clown?

Disappeared after Japan's humiliation after months of talking it up....

 

Asia + Australia Top 10

Code:

FIFA Rank/Jul 12    Pts    ELO Rank/Jul 10   Pts
1(33) Australia     738    1(18)Australia    1792
2(47) Iran         624    2(32)Iran         1727
3(49) Japan         615    3(34)Japan         1719
4(50) Uzbekistan    606    4(38)South Korea  1695
5(56) Korea Republic 557   5(57)China         1587
6(76) Qatar         420    6(63)Qatar         1559
7(81) Saudi Arabia  399    7(65)Uzbekistan   1552
8(86) Oman          367    8(66)Oman         1550
9(88) Iraq          350    9(67)Saudi Arabia 1548
10(89) China PR     343    10(75)Iraq         1500

 

Guys. Please do not post any nonsense. I gave you the most accurate ranking in the world couple weeks ago:

1. Australia (with Hiddink)
2. Korea
3. Australia (without Hiddink)
4. Iran
5. Japan
6. Saudi Arabia
7. Iraq, Kuwait, China, Oman, Qutar etc.


As i've always said, a person's careful subjective thinking is much better than statistical ranking. They really should just poll all the national and club team coaches in the world. It'll be better than any of this.

 

What a crock of shite, the top ten is fine, it's an improvement and fairly accurate, the next 20 or 30 is almost as bad as it was previously.

Switzerland 13th??!!!?! pfffttt
Guinea 24th!!!!!!!!!!????!!!! WTF
Nigeria and cameroon still up so high
Uruguay 14th?!!!!?!!

and Asia got REEEEEEEMMMEED

Australia deserve better than 33rd, Sth Korea's is absolute crap, they weren't far off the second round of the world cup, and have played well

I think FIFA must've been hoping that getting rid of the US and Mexico from the top ten and making it look respectable would make people think this is better, far from it. After the Asia cup, i'd expect nothing less than all asian teams to have a giant leap - because africa has been given a very very generous hand from the african nations cup

 

The FIFA rankings & rankings systems has & still is a joke,it's not to be taken seriously

 

Totally agree, but this one's sure silenced a lot of (nameless) posters on BS who used to love rubbing other people's faces in them. Guess they're no fun any more.

 

i wonder why japan and korea are so low down the rankings, they arent that bad compared to teams like swiss and all that.. fifa rankings is crap anyway

 

Re: FIFA rankings released, Asia's premier team: Australia.

i thought saudi was the "brazil of asia" LOL

 

Re: FIFA rankings released, Asia's premier team: Australia.

Guys, don' rub it in too hard, as AUS could be the feather-dusters next month.

 

Re: FIFA rankings released, Asia's premier team: Australia.

Haha sucked in to Japan and Saudi Arabia. Sucked in. Looks like Australia will be top favourites for the upcomming AFC.

I'm still bitter that Portugal and Spain were ranked below Netherlands. FORCA PORTUGAL!!! Portugal will win Euro 2008 and be amongst top 5 sooner or later.

 

omg wtf, mexico goes down 14 spots after making rd of 16 and usa only goes down 11 and they got thrashed in the group stages!!!!

croatia stays in the exact same spot for not getting out of the group when japan who only had 1 less point than croatia goes down 31 places!!!!!!! only 1 spot ahead of UZBEKISTAN. im no japan fan, but that is utter crap.. im not even going to begin with sth korea and saudi, i think it speaks for itself, pathetic by whoever did the rankings. it's just a plot for them to take half a spot off asia, that is the only reason why they did it.


Slovenia 505 10 -34
62 Zambia 498 -5 -83
63 Mali 497 3 -53
64 Trinidad and Tobago 487 -17 -117
65 Albania 478 20 -34
66 Zimbabwe 476 -11 -110
67 Congo DR 475 2 -69
68 Venezuela 463 3 -76
69 Lithuania 458 24 -23
70 Finland 456 -21 -143
70 FYR Macedonia 456 21 -33
72 South Africa 455 -19 -138
73 Belarus 453 -8 -100
74 Burkina Faso 445 15 -55
75 Northern Ireland 425 21 -44
76 Qatar 420 2 -113
77 Moldova 416 27 -36
78 Jamaica 409 -32 -198
79 Libya 401 7 -110
80 Malawi

they are the teams ranked betweek south korea and saudi.. i expect fifa to take half a spot off us, they have put asian teams so low for a reason!

 

Yeah, I can't work out why japan has made such a big slide backwards. I'd have expected them to drop a few and be slightly higher than us, not drop 31 spots to 49th. Something wrong there I think.

Same with South Korea, I just can't see how they have dropped so far. Like I said, something seems wrong to me.

The USA had a crap world cup and dropped a whole 11 places compared to Japans 31 and koreas 27??????

Seems the FFA is a bit upset that we only climbed 9 places when a bunch of teams who didn't qualifdy for the world cup jumped up 20+ places to a higher ranking than us.

Seems the FIFA ranking system is as good as ever.

 

11 Nigeria 1149 0 413
12 Cameroon 1109 3 387
20 Côte d'Ivoire 909 12 240
24 Guinea 850 27 253
25 Ghana 839 23 239
29 Egypt 819 -12 111
31 Tunisia 805 -10 112
35 Senegal 726 -7 47
40 Morocco


surprise surprise, i think i can guess who is taking asias half spot

 

yeah the players were just shit and hiddink was controlling them with a ps2 control.. probably boosted their attributes in edit player mode aswell lol