How are the countries ranked?

The countries got points for their performance in the last seasons. Every point a nation scored in the last three years is counted. For every match won in the group stages or the finals the nation got 3 points, for every draw 1 point and a loss ended in 0 points. As you may understand we want to put more weight on the latest results in opposition to the older ones not to give a team a better spot who's players got exchanged the last seasons. So we weighted the seasons 2007 with 1/3, 2008 with 2/3 and 2009 with 3/3 of the whole sum. That makes clear that we care about what the teams did in the past but also focus on the latest results to give our ranking a clearer view to be as near as can be to the real strength of every nation.

FIFA Nations Ranking: Rank Country Points  1st Germany 86,50  2nd Romania 51,50  3rd Ukraine 50,62  4th Poland 45,50  5th Hungary 45,25  6th Austria 42,25        7th Russia 34,87  8th Portugal 31,00  9th Spain 22,37  10th Turkey 14,25  11th France 14,00  12th Belgium 11,25        13th Netherlands 10,75  14th Italy 8,25  15th Switzerland 4,50  16th Bulgaria 4,50  17th Denmark 3,00  18th Slovakia 3,00        19th Israel 2,50  20th Serbia 2,25  21th Slovenia 2,25  22nd Czech Republic 1,50  23rd Latvia 1,50  24th Lithuania 0,75        25th Sweden 0,75  26th Croatia 0,75  27th Greece 0,50  28th Belarus 0,50  29th Luxembourg 0,25

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