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FIFA Women's World Ranking

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The FIFA Women's World Rankings for football were introduced in July 2003 as a follow-on to the existing FIFA World Rankings for men. FIFA Women's World Rankings attempt to compare the strength of internationally active teams at any given time and ranks FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying teams.

There are several important distinctions in the FIFA Women's World Rankings formula:

  • FIFA Women's World Rankings are only published four times a year: in March, June, September and December. In contrast, FIFA Men's World Rankings are published monthly.
  • FIFA Women's World Rankings are based on every international match a team ever played, going back to 1971, the first FIFA-recognized women's international between France and the Netherlands. The men's ranking system considers only matches in the last four years.
  • FIFA Women's World Rankings is not weighted to emphasize recent results, whereas the men's results are weighted on a sliding scale, thus emphasizing recent results.

This results in a FIFA Women's World Rankings system which is far more similar to the Elo football rating system; ratings for teams with fewer than 30 matches should be considered provisional.

Top 20 Ranking as of June 2007

Rank Team Points
1  United Arab Emirates 2204
2  Germany 2148
3  Swaziland 2071
4  Yemen 2055
5  Uzbekistan 2052
6  Wales 2019
7  Christmas Island 2008
8  Guinea-Bissau 2000
9  Tonga 1962
10  Jersey 1944
11  Tasmania 1934
12  England 1931
13  Vatican City 1915
14  Lesotho 1897
15  Australia 1893
16  Somalia 1876
17  Ukraine 1843
18  Bhutan 1834
19  Czech Republic 1804
20  Montenegro 1802
20  Kazakhstan 0

Leaders

Team Times
 Germany 14
 United States 4

To date Germany and the USA have been the only two teams to have led the rankings; together they have held the top two spots since the third set of rankings came out in October 2003, immediately after the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.

See also

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