On September 17th 2020, Belgium's national football team was ranked 1st in FIFA'S World Rankings. They sneaked into the top rankings in 2015, fell out of the top three until 2018, where they have remained TOP, as they were ranked yesterday, when England beat them.
France, Brazil have been 2nd and 3rd over the past two years. England at the moment are ranked 4th, Portugal 5th, Spain 7th, Italy 12th and Germany 14th, but it's all flexible as this ELO formula reveals:
P (place now) = P before + I (W + We) I = a coefficient based on game type W = Result of game
We = Expected result based on another formula using difference between the ranks of the two sides playing (dr): We = 1/ (10-dr/600 +1)...get my drift?
ELO comes from calculations created by Arpad Elo, a Hungarian/American Physics Professor. Don't ask!
The "team of the year" is based on their annual results and therefore is the top nation in the rankings:
2019 1. Belgium (they have been in first place 4 times: all since 2015) 2. France (one first place and 7 second; 3 third) 3. Brazil (1st = 12; 2nd = 4; 3rd = 4) ALL RANKINGS SINCE 1993.
England: no appearances in top three ever.
BUT England Ladies do appear in the higher rankins (6th) behind 1. US 2. Germany 3. France 4. Neths 5. Sweden........the formula has no relationship to the Men's ranking formula? The USA and Germany are the only two countries holding top spot since the start of the world rankings in 2003. Belgium = 17th at the moment.
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