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India has never participated in the FIFA World Cup, although the team did qualify by default for the 1950 World Cup after all the other nations in their qualification group withdrew. However India withdrew prior to the beginning of the tournament. India has never participated in a FIFA World Cup. [1]
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of December 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
All 22 national governing bodies that form UAFA are also members of both FIFA and either the AFC or CAF. National teams from UAFA member countries are noted in the list below. The Arab Cup is the top championship tournament for national teams, organised historically by UAFA and by FIFA since 2021.
By March 2015, after not playing any matches, India reached their lowest FIFA ranking position of 173. [71] A couple months prior, Stephen Constantine was re-hired as the head coach after first leading India more than a decade before. [72] Constantine's first major assignment back as the India head coach were the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Fourteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied ...
FIFA Rankings Best Worst 533 193 112 228 36.21% 94 (1996) 173 (2015) Biggest win Sri Lanka 0–7 India. 7 December 1963. Biggest defeat Soviet Union 11–1 India 16 September 1955. Updated as of 18 November 2024 (vs Malaysia). [4] [5] [6] [7]
This template ({{FIFA World Rankings}}) is meant to help quickly update the FIFA World Rankings for all 211 men's national teams of FIFA, displayed in the infobox on each national team article. When given a country code, the template outputs the FIFA World Ranking of a country, along with a movement indicator (increase, decrease, or steady ...
In 1956, no longer playing barefoot, India reached the semi-final in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, becoming the first Asian country to do so and ranking fourth in the tournament. In 1962, India again won the gold in the Asian Games at Jakarta , defeating South Korea 2–1. [ 15 ]