Heroic Morocco climb high, world champions Argentina up to second in FIFA rankings

FIFA released their latest rankings on Thursday following the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

After their historic and heroic World Cup performance by reaching the semi-finals, Morocco are the highest African side in the standings as they climbed 11 places to 11th, one of two African sides in the top 20 alongside Senegal who sit 19th.

World champions Argentina have failed to dislodge arch-rivals Brazil at the top of the standings despite recently winning the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1986.

The two South American nations are followed by beaten finalists France, Belgium and England who make up the rest of the top five.

Australia, like Morocco moved up multiple places in the latest rankings as they too moved up 11 places to 27th while Bafana Bafana, who ended the year strongly winning three out of the last four matches, remain in a disappointing 67th place.

1: Brazil - 1840.77 points

2: Argentina - 1838.38 points

3: France - 1823.39 points

4: Belgium - 1781.30 points

5: England - 1774.19 points

6: Netherlands - 1740.92 points

7: Croatia - 1727.62 points

8: Italy - 1723.56 points

9: Portugal - 1702.54 points

10: Spain - 1692.71 points

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