Russian team finished the year in the fourth top ten ranking FIFA – RBC

The Russian team finished the year fourth in the top ten ranking FIFA

Russian football team retained 31th place in the ranking FIF A. His A new version was published on December 18 at the official website of the organization. The next time FIFA unveil its rating on January 8, thus, the Russian team will finish the year in the fourth decade.

2013 Russian team finished in 22nd place. Her fall in FIFA rankings due mainly to bad performance at the World Cup in Brazil, where Fabio Capello’s team was not able to leave the group. In addition, the Russians are not the best way to play the qualifying tournament Euro 2016. In particular, they played a draw with Moldova ( 1: 1) and lost Austria ( 0: 1).

The worst position in the FIFA rankings and the Russian national team was in 1998, when it occupied the 40th place, the best – in 1996, when the Russian team climbed to third place.

The best team at the end of 2014 became the world champion Germany. Second place goes to Argentina, the third – Colombia. Outside the top ten were teams like Italy ( 11th place) and England ( 13th). At the 2014 World Cup these teams, like Russia, is not out of the group.

As for the top contenders for the Russian team qualifying tournament Euro 2016, then Austria occupies 23rd place, Sweden – 44th, Montenegro – 59th.

FIFA rankings as of December 18,

1. Germany – 1725 points

2. Argentina – 1538

3. Columbia – 1450

4. Belgium – 1417

5. Netherlands – 1347

6. Brazil – 1316

7. Portugal – 1160

7. France – 1160

9. Spain – 1142

10. Uruguay – 1135

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31. Russia – 789