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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.
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 ...
From its inception to 2017, it was known as The Guardian 100 Best Footballers in the World. It is decided by a panel of experts from several nations. [1] [2] Argentine player Lionel Messi is the record winner of the award with 6 wins.
In 2010, the FIFA World Player of the Year award combined with the Ballon d'Or to create the FIFA Ballon d'Or in a six-year partnership. [3] FIFA presided over the FIFA Ballon d'Or after agreeing to pay £13million for the merge of the two major player awards with France Football.
According to Brittanica, Messi has been named the world’s best men’s player of the year seven times (2009–12, 2015, 2019, and 2021) because of his left-footed, quick, and precise ball control .
However, an exhibition UK team has played a small number of friendly matches. [8] The UK has also been represented in the Summer Olympic and Summer Universiade football competitions by its own national teams. Two UN member states (the Marshall Islands and Nauru), have never fielded a national association-organised football team. [9] [10]
The FIFA World Rankings is the official national teams rating system used by the international governing body of football. The FIFA Women's World Rankings system has used a modified version of the Elo formula since 2003. In June 2018, the FIFA ranking switched to an Elo-based ranking as well, starting from the current FIFA rating points. [6]
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 ...