OM+ Football World Ranking is a new method developed to have a reliable ranking of the national football teams, alternative to the terrible and flawed Fifa ranking. Renewed in early 2024.
OM+ RANKING – February 2024 update
With the final tournament of two continental championships played in the last month, the new ranking was full of changes as expected. Qatar winned the second consecutive AFC Asian Cup, improving 35 positions (+117,025 points) and moving on the 22th position (4th inside the AFC confederation). The finalist of the Asian Cup Jordan, was the best mover in points of the month, gaining +118,832 points and moving from the position 101 to 62 (+39). Other considerable progress were done by Thailand (107th, +23), Uzbekistan (46th, +8) and Tajikistan (103th, +7). IR Iran entered in the top 20 (now 16th, +6).
The Africa Cup of Nations has a lot of surprises. The best mover after the tournament was the Angola national team improving up to the 75th position in the new ranking (+40 positions and +97,691 points). The winner of the title Côte d’Ivoire improved only 9 positions, up to the 37th place, mainly due to a disappointing group stage. The other finalist Nigeria improved 21 positions recovering until the 40th place. Other important achievements were made by South Africa (56th, +16) and Cabo Verde (65th, +23).
Disappointing results in the competition for all the Maghreb nations: Morocco -7, Tunisia -18, Egypt -17, and Algeria -18. Morocco lost a position in the top 20 (now 22th) but remained the first CAF nation in the ranking, since Senegal wasn’t able to go so far.
For all the other confederations only few friendlies played out of the international match calendar and very little movements. Iceland, not in a good moment, gained 3 positions winning two friendlies against Guatemala and Honduras (now 74th). Slovenia winned a game against the USA and improved 2 positions (36th).
The next ranking will be published after the next Fifa international break, that will end on 26, march 2024.
FWR Football World Ranking – update at 2023-06-20
Updated FWR Football World Ranking at 2023-06-20
http://worldranking.altervista.org/index.html
Games included in the new calculation: 170 (match details and points here)
National teams active after the previous release date: 176
Current leader: Argentina (unchanged)
Ranked teams: 218 (unchanged)
Biggest increase in points: 
Armenia +80,588;
Biggest drop in points: 
Wales -93,455
Biggest increase in places: 
Moldova +17 (new position: 127)
Biggest drop in places: 
Sudan -14 (new position: 137)
Full ranking at http://worldranking.altervista.org/
FWR RANKING AT 2023/03/31
New ranking updated at 2023-03-31:
http://worldranking.altervista.org/index.html
Games included in the new calculation: 203 (complete list here)
National teams active after the previous release date: 195
Current leader: 🇦🇷 Argentina (unchanged)
Ranked teams: 218 (unchanged)
Biggest increase in points: 🇳🇦 Namibia +85,527;
Biggest drop in points: 🇨🇲 Cameroon -85,527
Biggest increase in places: 🇨🇫 Central African Republic +20 (new position: 124)
Biggest drop in places: 🇲🇬 Madagascar -20 (new position: 138)
FWR football world ranking – Update 2022-12-18
Games included in the new calculation: 152 (match details and points here)
National teams active after the previous release date: 107
Current leader: Argentina (new)
Ranked teams: 220 (unchanged)
Biggest increase in points: Morocco +205,180;
Biggest drop in points: Denmark -151,962
Biggest increase in places: Morocco +21 (new position: 12)
Biggest drop in places: Qatar -18 (new position: 58)
Full ranking here
FWR FOOTBALL WORLD RANKING – UPDATE 2022-09-27
Games included in the new calculation: 150 (match details and points here)
National teams active after the previous release date: 151
Current leader: Brazil (unchanged)
Ranked teams: 220 (unchanged)
Biggest increase in points: Azerbaijan +48,351;
Biggest drop in points: Türkiye -40,184;
Biggest increase in places: Azerbaijan and Mauritania +9 (new positions: 109 and 119)
Biggest drop in places: Norway -6 (new position: 37)
Full ranking here
The next update will be published after 2022-11-20
FWR Football World Ranking – update 2022-03-30
Photo: OFC media
Games included in the new calculation: 177 (match details and points here)
National teams active after the previous release date: 170
Current leader: Brazil (unchanged)
Ranked teams: 220 (unchanged)
Biggest increase in points: New Zealand +118,705;
Biggest drop in points: New Caledonia-105,277;
Biggest increase in places: New Zealand +17 (new position: 92)
Biggest drop in places: New Caledonia -16 (new position: 173)
Next release date: after 2022-06-14
Full ranking available on the homepage: http://worldranking.altervista.org/
Football World Ranking – December 2021
Full ranking available here
Next release date: after 06-02-2022
Games included in the new calculation: 67 (match details and points here)
National teams active after the previous release date: 40
Current leader: Brazil (unchanged)
Ranked teams: 220 (unchanged)
Biggest increase in points: Thailand +30,035;
Biggest drop in points: Sudan -25,283;
Biggest increase in places: Thailand +8 (new position: 120)
Biggest drop in places: Sudan -9 (new position: 127)
Biggest increase in points of the year: Canada +301,929
Biggest drop in points of the year: Venezuela -171,761
Biggest increase in places of the year: Canada +36 (new position 21)
Biggest drop in places of the year: Zimbabwe -27 (new position 126)
FWR Ranking – update september 2021
In the September’s international window the qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup entered in the crucial stages in four continents. 181 international matches were included in the new calculation, 152 of wich were WC qualifying matches. Panama, Bulgaria and Lybia are the top 3 teams that had the best progress in points.
This is the list of the top 10 movers:
| Team | Points |
|---|---|
| Panama Bulgaria Libya Liechtenstein Andorra Israel Guinea-Bissau Northern Ireland Malta Tanzania | +83,0077 +82,0624 +80,0256 +75,6341 +72,2276 +66,7847 +57,1511 +56,9990 +55,1914 +54,0095 |
The two draws against Bulgaria and Switzerland caused for Italy the lost of the first position, earned now by Belgium. Brazil and Argentina bot gained 1 position and they are now on the 2nd and 3rd position respectively.
Updated ranking here
Confederation rankings here
Games played and points here
June-July 2021 Football World Ranking update
A summer very busy for the international football has just passed. Continental finals were helded in three confederations. Started in June, the Uefa European Championships and the Conmebol Copa America (both postponed by one year because of the covid-19 pandemic) redefined rankings of the Uefa and Comnebol teams. In July the major tournament in the North, central America and caribbean, the Concacaf Gold Cup, was helded in the USA. Furthermore, many important games for the World Cup 2022 qualifications were played in the Conmebol, AFC and Concacaf zone. A total of 206 international games were included in the calculation of the new update, with 128 national teams active in the last timeframe.
The winner of the European Championships, Italy, is the one that had the best progress in points since the update published in April, 2021: +178,581. With a total rating of 3194,493, Italy is now second behind the new leader Belgium. Belgium has improved only 6,231 points but tooks advantage of the decrease of the brazilians. The european team with the bigger improve in positions, between those involved the European Chamonship, is the Czech Republic (+11, now 21th). Despite not being involved in competitive games, a big improve also for the Estonia national team. After winning the Baltic Cup tournament and after an away win against the finnish, in a friendly match, the estonians gained 13 positions and 46,261 points (now they are on positions 107).
Let’s take a look now at South America. The winner of the Copa America Argentina improve from the 8th to the 4th place in the FWR ranking. Not winning the tournament, despite playing all the games at home, cost the leadership to Brazil, that slide until the 3rd place. Improvements for both the semifinalists Colombia and Peru now respectively on 10th and 19th position.
In the Concacaf confederation, a very big improvement was done by Canada, that scored good points in both the WC qualifiers and the Gold Cup (reaching the semifinal). Canada has gained 19 positions (now on 27th) and 160,934 points. The USA winners of the Gold Cup are now returned in the top 20 of the ranking, in 13th position, while the runner-up Mexico is now in 11th place. The national team of Qatar, invited as guest in this tournament, reached the semifinal and it is now on the 37th position in the overall ranking, number 4 in the AFC confederation. Between the Concacaf nations, good improvements for El Salvador (+17, 75th place), Trinidad and Tobago (+15, 103th place) and Puerto Rico (+12, 173th place).
After a lot of games in the AFC section of the WC qualifiers, notable progress for IR Iran (+11, 20th place), Saudi Arabia (+10, 50th place), United Arab Emirates (+18, 70th place), Palestine (+23, 99th place), Tajikistan (+15, 142th place).
To conclude, the postponed match between Sierra Leone and Benin, valid for the Afcon qualifiers, was helded in June with a 1:0 result in favor of Sierra Leone that had qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. Sierra Leone improved 6 places until the 120th position. A notable progress was also done by Eswatini, after a good performance in the COSAFA Cup, improving from the position 172 to 160.
MAY 2021 – TESTING PHASE ENDED, FINAL RANKING SYSTEM AVAILABLE
The end of the testing phase initially scheduled at the end of the Fifa the World Cup 2022, is concluded earlier. The definitive fwr ranking is launched starting from may 2021. However, after some tweak in the method of the calculation, all the previous month were recalculated.
OM+ Football World Ranking 