FIFA World Rankings – Wednesday September 2, 2009 – Brazil on stop, Spain closes gap, and USA 11th

The latest FIFA World Rankings were released on Wednesday September 2, 2009 with not many changes. Brazil remains on top but Spain has closed the gap to less than 20 points. The rest of the top ten remains about the same with Italy moving up one spot to be tied with Germany for 4th and France slipped to 10th while Croatia moved up one to 9th. The United States also gained a spot and are 11th. Mexico is one of the team gaining several spots as they move to 24th. The next set of rankings will be released on October 7, 2009.

Ranking	Team	Pts Sep 09	+/- Ranking Aug 09		+/- Pts Aug 09
1	Brazil	1604	0		-38
2	Spain	1588	0		-2
3	Netherlands	1376	0		-3
4	Italy	1186	1		5
4	Germany	1186	0		-9
6	Russia	1129	0		-32
7	England	1127	0		-8
8	Argentina	1113	0		33
9	Croatia	1101	1		70
10	France	1040	-1		-19
11	USA	974	1		-17
12	Greece	971	-1		-30
13	Serbia	916	1		-9
14	Australia	907	2		11
15	Switzerland	898	-2		-32
16	Denmark	892	-1		-17
17	Portugal	880	0		-1
18	Czech Republic	870	4		20
19	Bulgaria	860	4		21
20	Côte d’Ivoire	852	-2		-22
21	Chile	846	5		29
22	Israel	844	3		22
23	Paraguay	842	-3		-14
24	Mexico	835	6		36
25	Ukraine	829	-6		-40
26	Romania	827	1		13
27	Turkey	826	1		17
28	Uruguay	820	-7		-31
29	Cameroon	819	0		16
30	Scotland	804	-6		-33
31	Northern Ireland	795	1		11
32	Egypt	786	1		7
32	Ghana	786	3		14
34	Nigeria	773	0		0
35	Gabon	759	-4		-30
36	Ecuador	749	0		-19
36	Poland	749	4		43
38	Republic of Ireland	743	-1		-15
39	Costa Rica	735	-1		-7
40	Japan	734	-1		5
41	Sweden	723	0		21
42	Honduras	712	4		48
43	Norway	709	7		103
44	Algeria	707	3		46
45	Slovakia	687	-3		0
46	Bosnia-Herzegovina	682	-2		2
47	Hungary	669	-4		-12
48	Colombia	657	-3		-11
49	Korea Republic	641	-1		15
50	Tunisia	614	-1		0