The latest edition of the FIFA Men’s Rankings dropped yesterday, August 25th, 2022 & there wasn’t much surprise in the listings of the world’s top footballing nations across the globe. This ranking comes less than 90 days to the 22nd Edition of the FIFA World Cup, the biggest showcase event in the 2022 football calendar.
Probably because it’s been quite some time since I last checked out FIFA’s monthly ranking of their member nations, or the fact that I haven’t been particularly following international football as much as I have been following club football but I was quite surprised that Brazil were now back to the number 1 team in the world & by a very comfortable stance at that. The Red Devils of Belgium (who were on the top of the log last time I checked), Argentina, France & England all make up the rest of the Global top 5 & I particularly couldn’t help but notice the wide 100 points gap between Brazil in Number 1 & England in Number 5 spot as well as the strong 50 point gap between Argentina & Belgium in Number 3 & 2 respectively.
Leading the African contingents in the global rankings was reigning African Champions, Senegal, who were ranked 18th & the only African team in the global top 20. Also notably:
- The Top 10 consists of only European (8) & South American (2) nations
- There only 2 countries from CONCACAF in the top 20; Mexico (14) & USA (16)
- There is only 1 CAF nation in the top 20, Senegal (18).
- Europe has as many nations in the top 10 as Africa & South America have in the global top 50 (8)
- Iran are the highest ranking Asian side with a 22nd placed ranking, two places above Japan in 24th & six places above Korea in 28th position.
Here is the Top 20 world ranking for August 2022.
- Brazil
- Belgium
- Argentina
- France
- England
- Spain
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Denmark
- Germany
- Mexico
- Uruguay
- USA
- Croatia
- Switzerland
- Colombia
- Sengal
- Wales
- Sweden
The Top 10 Ranking of CAF nations for this month is also thus:
1) Senegal (18th)
2) Morocco (23rd)
3) Tunisia (30th)
4) Nigeria (31st)
5) Cameroon (38th)
6) Egypt (40th)
7) Algeria (41st)
8) Mali (46th)
9) Cote d’voire (52nd)
10) Burkina Faso (55th)
As the FIFA World Cup in Qatar draws closer, there are significant changes expected to happen to the global rankings as teams would play friendlies, accrue points & move up & down the rankings till the World Cup in November. @thedavidadesina
