FIFA announced the year-end rankings: the national football team is 90th in the world + 13th in Asia! It fell 11 places in 1 year and a new low in nearly 10 years

19/12/2024 17:20:00 ceshi

On December 19, Beijing time, FIFA announced the 2024 FIFA men's national football team year-end rankings, and the Chinese men's football team still ranks 90th in the world, setting a new low in the year-end ranking in the past 10 years, and the national football team ranks 13th within the AFC.

Because there were no matches in December, the latest points of the national football team stayed at 1266.38 points, and the ranking also stayed at 90th. This also created the lowest ranking of the Chinese men's football team in the past 10 years, and the last time the national football team was ranked below 90, it was back to 97th in 2014. In the past year, the national football team has dropped 11 places, and at the end of last year, the national football team was ranked 79th.

In the upcoming 2024, the Chinese men's football team participated in the Asian Cup, the round of 36 and the round of 18. 2 draws and 1 loss in the Asian Cup, and the group was out of the group; In the round of 36, the last 4 games were 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss, relying on the help of Singapore, miraculously beat Thailand to qualify for the second place in the group and enter the round of 18. In the first 6 rounds of the round of 18, the Chinese men's football team accumulated 6 points with 2 wins and 4 losses, temporarily ranking at the bottom of the group, but only 1 point away from Australia, which is second in the group.

The top 15 men's national teams in the AFC year-end rankings are: 15-Japan, 18-Iran, 23-South Korea, 26-Australia, 48-Qatar, 56-Iraq, 58-Uzbekistan, 59-Saudi Arabia, 63-UAE, 64-Jordan, 80-Oman, 81-Bahrain, 90-China, 95-Syria, 97-Thailand.

The top 10 in the world at the end of the year are: Argentina, France, Spain, England, Brazil, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and Germany, but Argentina's world No. 1 position has been chased by France to a gap of less than 8 points.