With 159 international games played, the FIFA international match window of November was the more intensive since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared. Competitive games are came back in Africa too, after Europe and South America.
As expected, the WC qualifiers in South America were those with the greatest impact for the ranking. Brazil secured other two wins, after the two achieved in october, against Venezuela and Uruguay reaching the first position in the new ranking, followed by Belgium and France. The difference in points is very small at the moment. The fourth ranked nation, England, has more than 100 points gap, followed now by Italy and Spain (both qualified for the Nations League Finals). Between the South American national teams, good progress also for the Ecuadorians (+10, now on position 33). Colombia national team falls instead out of the top ten (14th, -6) and Peru in 34th (-11). The match with the biggest points exchange of the month was Ecuador-Colombia, ended 6:1, with 45,314 points gained by Ecuador and losed by Colombia.
In Europe, the more impressive progress this month is for the Armenia national team, that has obtained the promotion for the league B in Nations League with two wins against Georgia and Macedonia. Armenia is now ranked 83th (+12). Hungary qualified for the Euro finals beating Iceland, and secured the promotion for the league A in Nations League with a draw against Serbia and a win against Turkey. Hungary is now 38th (+5). Bad results this month for Georgia, that first miss a possible historic qualification for the european championships, losing with the North Macedonia, then lose again at the home stadium against Armenia and ends with a draw against Estonia. After these results, they dropped in the ranking until the position n. 78 (-11).
The African continent returns back with the AFCON qualifiers (matchdays 3 and 4). The biggest improvement of the month was for the Equatorial Guinea, that has winned both the games against Libya, climbing 13 places until the current 117th. Sierra Leone, with two draws against the high-ranked Nigeria, climb 11 places (now 120th). Nigeria has losed instead 8 positions, dropping at place 40. A positive month for Egypt (+7), Burundi (+11), Cameroon (+6), Comoros (+7) and Sudan (+7). South Sudan has obtained an upset win aginst Uganda improving 44,566 points in the new ranking (now on place 175).
Updated rankings at: http://worldranking.altervista.org/
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