NZ FIFA Ranking

If they are ranked in the top 20 they must be pretty good , as there are many teams ranked lower.
What do think is pretty good?

FIFA ranking is meaningless. There's at least 10 teams ranked below Australia that could absolutely rape them.

Just like there's teams in front of them that Oz could beat quite comfortably.

Like I said, they are an OK side, but nothing more than that. el grapadura2010-04-03 10:17:05

I agree, but the same could be said for the teams 20 to 30 behind the AW"s

I think come World Cup time,we'll see there are atleast three teams ranked higher than the All Whites that they could "absolutely rape"!

No argument from me there.

Michael Glading seems to disagree with you.

NZF chief executive Glading told Sunday News his exact expectation for the national team is "the tough but achievable challenge" of a top 30 Fifa ranking by 2020, and has personally researched and drafted a plan to make it happen.

Source: Stuff.co.nz.

Yeah, well, it's Glading.

People say rankings dont mean anything... but we all know they do. f**k being ranked 79 for the next 10 years, its going to do nothing for the game. It'l be used as an excuse to not fund the AWs, and excuse for other teams to not want to play us, an excuse for the nation to not care about football.

We are now ranked 78th! Meanwhile of our WC opponents, Slovaka drop 5 to 38, Paraguary drop 7 to 33 and Italy remain 5th. Also, North Korea (grouped with Brazil, Portugal and Ivory Coast and who the TAB give a better chance of winning the tournament than us) slip further to 106th. South Africa also down to 90th, so we are comfortably only 3rd lowest ranked at WC! And Australia slips to 20th.

Nelsen in his book picks North Korea to get out of the group

What's he been on?

Mmm that was about my thought. Im thinking it may have been a misprint, from reading the thing doesn't seem like it was proofread or edited that well

Reckon a quick job to cash in on the World Cup?

Absolutely, but good on him. Will be a cool book for 12 year olds not so much for others.

sounds about right for my reading age....sweet

Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but this sh*t is seriously going to affect our Fifa ranking.

What is the highest NZ has ever been btw?

At this rate they'll start seeding us in Pot A for the WC draw in 2014- or maybe i 've been on the pot too much

But seriously, i imagine there'll be new ranking after the WC, and we'll be moving

47.

Yeah 47, better link http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=nzl/ranking/gender=m/index.html

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12270

was this thread, may need to be renamed. Actually were 2 others I think. Would be cool to keep all updates in one place to track the history.

Mods?

oOh, bagsmine to stay open-Purty Please!

another question, usually do rankings at end of month
will they do 1 end of month or wait till after world cup?

thanks, just noticed it said on fifa website,.... thanks for that tho lol

Could be interesting how high we climb.

Friendlies don't count?

You get no points for losing games...

You should get points just for being close. Just because.

Michael Lawls would like that.

To move into the top 50 we would have to increase our points by about 200 from 410 to 610.
So given your calculations above and this morning's result, how does this relate to our total points.
Should also be considered that top 50 teams within striking distance of NZ who appeared in the 2006 WC and not 2010 will lose the big points gained there. Poland, Equador and Sweden
Points are calculated on games played over the last 4 years. (Next update 14th July)

Thats another 676 points this morning which gives us an average of 445 pts since the last rankings.

55th (or 54th if Botswana don't lose to Tunisia)

FIFA Ranking: New Zealand outside the top 50

The website that regularly calculates FIFA world rankings is showing our ranking as 55th after the Paraguay game. LInk below. That is close to our best ever - 47th in 2002.

http://www.football-rankings.info/

Come on Botswana!

A win wouldve sent us soaring id imagine.

Thread going here

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12270&PN=4

New Zealand will be the best climbers in the next release of FIFA ranking.

FIFA Ranking: July 2010 preview (VI).

Take that Mali.

Off topic but, France 21st 

I am hoping that others drop points faster than we do in the coming months, I mean they have more points to drop than we earned four years ago....