The Belgian national team is firmly in the first place
With the 2021 year ending, Belgium consolidate in the first place of the world ranking
The Belgian national team with footballers must admit world-class (De Bruyne, Lukaku, Courtois, etc.), possibly equal to those of 1986 (Ceulemans, Scifo, Frank Vercauteren etc.) may not have managed to win another trophy, but in 2021 will find it at the top of the FIFA world rankings.
Something that had been repeated in 2018. Roberto Martinez's "Red Devils" almost certainly handed over the first place to Brazil (2), which, however, could not take advantage of the draw of Belgium in Wales, remaining at 0-0 against of Argentina. In 3rd place is the national team of France, which this month scored two important victories in the qualifying phase of the World Cup 2020 and brought it closer to the top two.
Close to the podium is the
English national team (4) of Gareth Southgate, which rose one place thanks to the failures of Italy (6, -2) in the qualifiers for the Qatar World Cup in 2022. Fall to 6th place in the overall standings for the European champions, who now have
Argentina ahead of them (5, +1). Of course, the "blue team" of Roberto Mancini has the barrage games ahead of it, which has every reason to believe that it will be present in the stadiums of Qatar.
🇧🇪 Belgium hold off Brazil to stay top ✋
— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) November 19, 2021
🇳🇱 The Netherlands return to the top 10 🔙
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The 120 qualifiers in November for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, combined with 25 friendlies also held this month, brought the total number of international matches in 2021 to 1,058. On the contrary, the national team of Greece, formerly European champion in 2004, had a new drop, and in fact 8 eight places, where for the month of November it dropped from 47th place to 55th place, with 1421.99 points.
So is the stay or not of the Dutch federal coach, John Vant Schip, under discussion. Without, of course, being the only one responsible for the fall of the "blue team". But the national team of Cyprus also fell from 103rd to 105th place (1178.65).
Another country that is showing great decline is Mexico (14, -5), whose fall of 5 places, led to its place in the Top 10 in the Netherlands (10, +1), due to its qualification to the World Cup. As of this month, 13 countries have qualified for Qatar 2022, with 11 of them ranking in the Top 15. Serbia (23, +2) and Qatar (51, -5), which automatically qualifies as the host country , are the two lowest ranking.
Below 72nd place a year ago, Canada (40, +8) is now in 40th place, a high position it has not experienced since December 1996. Other teams did even better in the same period: Equatorial Guinea (114, +12), Ecuador (46, +9) and Togo (125, +9).
The teams that gave the most matches are, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Maldives, Mexico, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Ecuador went up the most points (+31.81), Equatorial Guinea went up the most places (+12 places), the largest drop in points was Mexico (-34.16 points), and the largest drop in the ranking Central African Republic (-15 places).
The top 10 in the FIFA world rankings are:
1. Belgium 1828.45 point
2. Brazil 1826.35
3. France 1786,15
4. England 1755,52
5. Argentina 1750.51
6. Italy 1740.77
7. Spain 1704.75
8. Portugal 1660,25
9. Denmark 1654.54
10. The Netherlands 1653.73
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