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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.
This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the world's most important governing body for association football. A majority of national association football teams in the world are members of FIFA or one of its affiliated continental confederations.
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 ...
This article lists all men's football players who have played in 100 or more official international matches for a national football team according to association football's world governing body FIFA. In total, 628 men's footballers from 114 nationalities have officially played in 100 or more international matches. The record for the most ...
The Best FIFA Men's Player; Date: 2016; 9 years ago () Presented by: FIFA: Formerly called: FIFA World Player of the Year (1991–2009) FIFA Ballon d'Or (2010–2015) First awarded: 2016: Current holder: Vinícius Júnior (1st award) Most awards: Lionel Messi (3 awards) Website: fifa.com
Eleven players were initially shortlisted on 28 November 2024. [4] The three finalists were revealed on December 17, 2024. The selection criteria for the men's players and coaches was: respective achievements during the period from 21 August 2023 to 10 August 2024. [4] Vinícius Júnior won the award with 48 scoring points. [5]
The 2003 FIFA World Player of the Year award was won by Zinedine Zidane for a record-equalling third time. It was the award's 13th edition. Mia Hamm won the women's award. The gala was hosted at the Messe in Basel, on December 15, 2003. 142 national team coaches, based on the current FIFA Men's World Ranking were chosen to vote for the men's edition and 100 for the women's.
Lionel Messi is the player with the most games played at the FIFA World Cup, and one of only six along with German Lothar Matthäus, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Mexicans Antonio Carbajal, Andrés Guardado, and Rafael Márquez to have entered the field in five different tournaments.