Written by Smithy on October 16th, 2009
Scotland have dropped 16 places in the FIFA World Rankings. This follows game losses to Norway, Netherlands and Japan. Unfortunately we've not been able to blame meaningless friendly for our drop this time.
The table leads with Brazil first, Spain second and Netherlands third - all are unchanged. England remain on 7th, Northern Ireland up one place to 30th and Wales drop 11 places to 78th.
Our only other annoinced game is v Czech Republic who move up 3 places to 15th.
Of our previous campaign, Iceland move up 9 places to 87th, and Macedonia drop 10 places to 66th.
Posted in: Tartan Army - General
Written by Smithy on June 4th, 2009
Scotland has climbed another 2 places to 22nd place in the FIFA Coca Cola World Rankings. Even though Scotland hasn’t played a match in the past month points from over a year ago are now being “devalued”.
Spain remain top, with the Netherlands moving in to second place from thirds, and Germany dropping one place to third.
England moves up one place to sixth, Wales and Northern Ireland stay at 27th place.
Other teams relevant to Scotland:-
Norway drops 2 places to 47th.
Iceland drop 18 places to 93rd place
Macedonia stay put at 64th place
Japan moves up 4 places to 31st place.
Full rankings are here
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Written by Smithy on April 9th, 2009
Today saw the release of Aprils Fifa World Rankings in which Scotland have climbed 4 places to 24th place.
The top 3 have stayed the same – Spain in first place, followed by Germany and the Netherlands.
Other teams relevant to Scotland, Norway down one place to 46th, Macedonia down 3 to 64th and Iceland plummet 18 places to 93rd (from 75).
Of the home nations, England climb 2 places to 7th, Wales drop 5 places to 73rd and Northern Ireland jump a massive 15 places to 27th. Only Mexico separate Scotland and Northern Ireland.
San Marino is still joint bottom in 202 with 5 other teams. Come on SFA, you know you want an away friendly!
Full results here
Posted in: General Tartan Army
Written by Smithy on March 11th, 2009
This months FIFA / Coca Cola World Cup Rankings were released earlier today. Scotland climb 4 places to 28th place.
Spain still lead the table, with Germany second, and Netherlands third. The top 7 places haven't changed since last month.
Of our other World Cup qualifier opponents, Norway are in 45th place (up 11), Macedonia 61st (down 4) and Iceland 75th (up 2).
Of the home nations, England is ranked 9th (down 1), Northern Ireland 42 (up 7), Wales 68th (down 3).
Note to SFA - any chance of a friendly against San Mariono, ranked 7th joint bottom at 201?
The full table can be found here
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