FIFA Women’s World Ranking: No change at the top, Bhutan on the up

Football
Published 09.06.2023
FIFA Women’s World Ranking: No change at the top, Bhutan on the up
FILE PHOTO: Carson Pickett of USA duels for the ball with Oihane Hernandez of Spain during the Women’s International Friendly match between Spain and USA.

FILE PHOTO: Carson Pickett of USA duels for the ball with Oihane Hernandez of Spain throughout the Women’s International Friendly match between Spain and USA.
| Photo Credit: Getty Images

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FILE PHOTO: Carson Pickett of USA duels for the ball with Oihane Hernandez of Spain throughout the Women’s International Friendly match between Spain and USA.
| Photo Credit: Getty Images

Nearly three months have passed by because the FIFA Women’s World Ranking was final up to date, with no fewer than 101 worldwide matches happening in that point.

National groups around the globe have been engaged in warm-up matches for the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023, whereas the Asian qualifiers for the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024 have additionally been happening.

Those video games have led to fairly a number of modifications within the world hierarchy, besides on the very summit, with the Top 5 remaining unchanged. USA (1st, -) are nonetheless out entrance, adopted by the European quartet of Germany (2nd, -), Sweden (third, -), England (4th, -) and France (fifth, -). There have been modifications under, nonetheless, with Spain (sixth, plus 1) and Canada (seventh, minus 1) swapping locations and Brazil (eighth, plus 1) and the Netherlands (ninth, minus 1) doing likewise, together with a great few different groups within the Top 50.

Among the edges occupying that elevated a part of the Ranking, Denmark (thirteenth, plus 2), Nigeria (fortieth, plus 2) and the Philippines (forty sixth, plus 3) have all made modest strikes, although the most important modifications may be discovered additional down.

IR Iran (61st, plus 6), Lebanon (138th, plus 4) and Pakistan (157th, plus 4) have all made important jumps, although the very best climbers of all are Bhutan (171st, plus 7), courtesy of wins over Jordan (73rd, minus 5) and Timor-Leste (156th, minus 3). The greatest fallers are Indonesia (one hundred and fifth, minus 6), who’ve slipped six locations.

11 nations have damaged their FIFA Ranking factors information: Spain (2002.28), the Republic of Ireland (1743.59), Slovenia (1556.25), Philippines (1512.97), Zambia (1298.31), Cambodia (1144.56), Cyprus (1134.28), Lebanon (1062.88), Pakistan (944.58), Saudi Arabia (844.30) and Bhutan (841.86).

Finally, Slovenia (thirty ninth), the Philippines (forty sixth), Cambodia (118th) and Saudi Arabia (a hundred and seventieth) have achieved their all-time highs within the Ranking, which is certain to vary once more when Australia & New Zealand 2023 comes round.