If we beat Korea too we can climb up to 23rd in the next FIFA Rankings

[naderb94]

October 20 is when the new FIFA rankings are released

[Bessos]

I did some calculating myself and I also included the results from the other matches (from Europe, America and Africa)

My result came out on 27th. Even if my calculation turns out not to be correct, I'm confident that we should be somewhere around 27th ranked in the world with the next FIFA rankings.

That's a +10 jump from our current ranking. And it will also be one of our best rankings ever, only after 1977 and 2005. It is also noteworthy that those years were also the only years where TM qualified for the World Cup comfortably.

[Ejdeha]

The match against PNG might be good because it gets us used to the malysian weather but it`s horrible when it comes to FIFA rankings as if even with a win we will drop in points. I did some calculations and if we just had the Syria match and we won it our FIFA rankings points would have been almost 890 where as now even if we beat Syria and PGN our points will be only 841 which is still 4 higher than our currect 837 points but 50 less than what we would have had had we not played PNG. If we draw or lose these matches which are unlikely but possible we would drop almost 100 points and probably will no longer be #1 in Asia.

[04041374]

The match against PNG might be good because it gets us used to the malysian weather but it`s horrible when it comes to FIFA rankings as if even with a win we will drop in points. I did some calculations and if we just had the Syria match and we won it our FIFA rankings points would have been almost 890 where as now even if we beat Syria and PGN our points will be only 841 which is still 4 higher than our currect 837 points but 50 less than what we would have had had we not played PNG. If we draw or lose these matches which are unlikely but possible we would drop almost 100 points and probably will no longer be #1 in Asia.

Let's hope CQ uses more than six subs, so that game is not FIFA-sanctioned anymore. but this depends on the agreement between two federations.

[Karimi 8]

holy shit terrible news

[Ab-Gosht]

they are not obligated to register the match as a offical match. i hope they use this options because otherwise we will lose fifa points even if we win the match by 5-0

[ehsan singapore]

holy shit terrible news

what the terrible news?

[Kian Persepolis]

That's dumb, why do we lose points for winning???

[Iranianarsenal11]

not true, we wont lose ranking spots... CQ can easily make this a non official friendly

[Ejdeha]

Well right now its listed on fifa as an official match hope cq reads this thread 50 points could mean 7 places on the ranking table

[bijbij]

Whats the logic behind winning a game and losing points??

[YeCheesi Tala]

^ A safeguard placed so that a team like our friends Qatar (just using as example ) doesn't go around paying shitloads of money to play shitty low end teams to rise in ranking and become top 10.

[Ejdeha]

I changed the thread title to raise awareness who knows maybe somebody who can make a change reads it and make it an unofficial match

[Ejdeha]

Never mind looks like I can't change the thread title if an admin change it to something like "we will drop points in fifa rankings even if we win the PNG match I'll appreciate it"

[bijbij]

^ A safeguard placed so that a team like our friends Qatar (just using as example ) doesn't go around paying shitloads of money to play shitty low end teams to rise in ranking and become top 10.

Losing points still doesn't make sense. Not gaining points at all would be much better.