USA, Japan and Germany still top 3: FIFA Women's World Rankings

Closer to number 1: Germany Celebrate with the Algarve Cup

The FIFA Women’s World Ranking was dropped yesterday and there were little changes in the previous rankings. The top 10 welcomed England and said goodbye to Australia.

USA, Germany and Japan as expected are still first, second and third respectively but USA’s 72 point lead over Germany got reduced to 24, probably due to the recently ended run of the US undefeated streak and Germany’s outstanding performances in the Algarve Cup clinching the trophy by winning third placed Japan in the final. USA are now top of the pile for the sixth year running.

Brazil sank from 4^th to 6^th, as underachievers, France, moved to 4^th, having had a good run since after the Euro 2012 competition and also wining the Cyprus Cup, Sweden are in 5^th. Canada remained in 7^th position and England broke into the top 10 as they moved all the way from 11^th to 8^th position. The People’s Republic of Korea and Norway are in 9^th and 10^th respectively as Australia are just outside the top 10 descending from 8^th to 11^th.

The highest African team on the log is Nigeria at number 34, Cameroon and Ghana are next at 49^th and 50^th respectively. I found it unusual that there was a tie in the 30^th position. The Republic of Ireland and Thailand somehow have the same points as they both advanced into the number 30 spot.

Mentions also for Scotland who moved one position up to 19^th, India found themselves in 51^st position, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain experienced no changes as they are still found in number 12, 13, 14 and 15 respectively while at the bottom of the list there’s Kenya .

There’s always room for improvement for your country-if needed- as the next rankings would be coming out in late June.

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- Sam.