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FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph [1]) to each of its member and non-member countries. These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
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 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 reduce vandalism.
Northern Ireland has competed in three FIFA World Cups, reaching the quarter-final stage in the 1958 and 1982 tournaments. Northern Ireland held the accolade of being the smallest nation to qualify for a World Cup Finals from their first appearance in 1958 until 2006, when Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the 2006 World Cup.
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 ...
Ireland Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland: Represented Ireland from 1882. From 1922, when the Irish Free State (later Republic of Ireland) left the United Kingdom, until 1953, it continued to pick players from across the Island of Ireland, before becoming restricted to players solely from Northern Ireland under pressure from FIFA. [34] Malaya
Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland: 3–4 1962 FIFA World Cup Group 3 Qualifier [6] Johnny Crossan: 3 7 May 1965 Albania: Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland: 4–1 1966 FIFA World Cup Group 5 Qualifier [7] George Best: 3 21 April 1971 Cyprus: Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland: 5–0 UEFA Euro 1972 Group 4 Qualifier [8] Colin ...
The Northern Ireland national football team, ranked 54th in the February 2019 FIFA World Rankings [3] plays its home matches at Windsor Park. Belfast was the home town of the renowned Northern Irish footballer, George Best who died in November 2005.