World Cup 2010 Ranking 9-32

[malleus]

09 Japan
10 US
11 Korea
12 Slovakia
13 Portugal
14 Mexico
15 England
16 Chile

17 Slovenia
18 Swiss
19 South Africa
20 Australia
21 Ivory Coast
22 New Zealand
23 Serbia
24 Denmark
25 Greece
26 Italy
27 Nigeria
28 Algeria
29 France
30 Honduras
31 Cameroon
32 North Korea

[KC McElroy]

France should be above Honduras. Both have even points and goal difference but France has scored more goals.

[soniq]

this ranking compares apples with oranges.
its useless.

[malleus]

France should be above Honduras. Both have even points and goal difference but France has scored more goals.

I fixed it.

this ranking compares apples with oranges.
its useless.

It is not about which team is better. It is just official business. This is the WC2010 rank that FIFA use , for instance in seeding top countries - though I doubt any of the above teams will be seeded in 2014 except England. Usually they use the rankings of the past 2-3 WCs and FIFA rankings of the past 3 years.
This WC was a bit unusual in that they only used the FIFA ranking at the time of seeding, which probably was to knock off France from being seeded.

This ranking is also used in seeding Asian qualifiers for 2014 WC.
Japan in group A and Korea in group B as the top seed of the group.

It is possible to have
Japan
Australia
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Iraq
China

in one group. That should be something to watch.

But for a real group of death I would put Korea instead of Japan though Japan are more highly regarded internationally.

[Team Melli Fan]

I fixed it.
It is not about which team is better. It is just official business. This is the WC2010 rank that FIFA use , for instance in seeding top countries - though I doubt any of the above teams will be seeded in 2014 except England. Usually they use the rankings of the past 2-3 WCs and FIFA rankings of the past 3 years.
This WC was a bit unusual in that they only used the FIFA ranking at the time of seeding, which probably was to knock off France from being seeded.
This ranking is also used in seeding Asian qualifiers for 2014 WC.
Japan in group A and Korea in group B as the top seed of the group.
It is possible to have
Japan
Australia
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Iraq
China
in one group. That should be something to watch.
But for a real group of death I would put Korea instead of Japan though Japan are more highly regarded internationally.

theyre changing it every year. they made it by confederations this time. so the full asian group theory isnt yet possible.