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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]
FIFA Men's World Ranking. The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of October 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.
The 2006–2018 FIFA men's ranking system was a calculation technique previously used by FIFA for ranking men's national teams in football.The ranking system was introduced by FIFA after the 2006 FIFA World Cup, as an update to an earlier system, and was replaced after the 2018 World Cup with a revised Elo-based system.
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, with ...
FIFA runs the World Cup as a tournament for national teams to find the world champion. Each confederation also runs its own championship to find the best team from among its members: AFC – AFC Asian Cup. CAF – Africa Cup of Nations. CONCACAF – CONCACAF Gold Cup. CONMEBOL – Copa América. OFC – OFC Men's Nations Cup.
The island of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania (and once an independent nation), is also an associate member of CAF and has played matches with other nations, but is not eligible to enter the World Cup or Africa Cup of Nations. See Zanzibar national football team. Tanzania is currently ranked 121st in the FIFA World Rankings. [3]
FIFA holds an annual awards ceremony, The Best FIFA Football Awards since 2016, which recognizes both individual and team achievements in international association football. Individually, the top men's player is awarded The Best FIFA Men's Player , and the top women's player is The Best FIFA Women's Player .
Usage. This module is used on the World Football Elo Ratings article to display a table of the current top 20 teams as ranked by the official website. As with the FIFA World Rankings article, the module is used instead of a conventional wikitable to prevent errors in updating, as the module is much easier and quicker to update, and also to ...