FIFA will update in a week (November 28th) its national teams’ country ranking, but upon using the simulator available on FIFA’s Website one can already know which will be the Top 20 Nations.
Before that you may want to recall how this ranking works.
https://sportsworldintel.com/soccer-fifas-national-teams-ranking-how-it-works/
The new ranking to be disclosed next week will be the following:
| Rank | Country | Points | Change Since Previous Ranking |
| 1 | Spain | 1507 | = |
| 2 | Germany | 1318 | = |
| 3 | Argentina | 1251 | = |
| 4 | Colombia | 1200 | = |
| 5 | Portugal | 1172 | 9 |
| 6 | Uruguay | 1132 | = |
| 7 | Italy | 1120 | 1 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 1113 | -1 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 1106 | -1 |
| 10 | Brazil | 1102 | 1 |
| 11 | Belgium | 1098 | -6 |
| 12 | Greece | 1055 | 3 |
| 13 | England | 1041 | -3 |
| 14 | USA | 1019 | -1 |
| 15 | Chile | 1014 | -3 |
| 17 | Croatia | 971 | 2 |
| 17 | Côte d’Ivoire | 918 | = |
| 18 | Ukraine | 907 | 2 |
| 19 | France | 893 | 2 |
| 20 | Mexico | 892 | 4 |
No changes in Top4 and Portugal is now Top5.
Portugal and Mexico are the best moving up teams.
Belgium, Chile and England are in spite the worst.
Brazil gets back to Top10.
This ranking however won’t matter to define Top seeded countries for next December 6th’s 2014 World Cup draw.
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/final-draw/index.html
Top seeded teams were defined upon the October ranking and are the following: Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay, Switzerland,
The other 3 pots are not yet defined but Eurosport.com speculates they will be composed as follows:
Pot 2 (CONCACAF, Asia)
Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, USA, Australia, Iran, Japan, South Korea.
Pot 3 (South America, Africa + lowest-ranked European team)
Chile, Ecuador, Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, France
Pot 4 (Europe)
Bosnia-Herzegovinia, England, Italy, Russia, Netherlands, Portugal, Croatia, Greece.
If you want to know more about other important rankings, such as the UEFA’s teams and countries ones, you can check our previous posts.
UEFA Country Ranking
https://sportsworldintel.com/soccer-uefas-country-and-team-rankings-how-it-works/
UEFA Team Ranking
Soccer – UEFA’s Team Ranking: A Calculation to define Top Seed Clubs
