FIFA Women's World Rankings
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Top 25 Rankings as of September 23 2011
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| || align="center"|2121
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| || align="center"|2106
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| || align="center"|2085
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| || align="center"|1985
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| || align="center"|1982
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| align="center" |4 || || align="center"|1967
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| align="center" rowspan=2|2 || || align="center"|1964
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|align=right|10
| || align="center"|1956
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|align=right|11
| align="center" | || || align="center"|1930
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|align=right|12
| align="center" |2 || || align="center"|1928
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|align=right|13
| align="center" | || || align="center"|1897
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|align=right|14
| align="center" |1 || || align="center"|1888
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|align=right|15
| align="center" |2 || || align="center"|1860
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|align=right|16
| align="center" | || || align="center"|1845
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|align=right|17
| align="center" |2 || || align="center"|1831
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|align=right|18
| align="center" rowspan=7| || || align="center"|1819
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|align=right|19
| || align="center"|1813
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|align=right|20
| || align="center"|1802
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|align=right|21
| || align="center"|1801
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|align=right|22
| || align="center"|1792
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|align=right|23
| || align="center"|1772
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| || align="center"|1752
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| align="center" |1 || || align="center"|1730
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The FIFA
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

 Women's World Rankings
for football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 were introduced in 2003, with the first rankings published in March of that year, as a follow-on to the existing FIFA World Rankings
FIFA World Rankings
The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, currently led by Spain. The teams of the member nations of FIFA , football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest...

 for men. FIFA Women's World Rankings attempt to compare the strength of internationally active teams at any given time.

Specifics of the ranking system

  • FIFA Women's World Rankings are based on every international match a team ever played, going back to 1971, the first FIFA-recognized women's international between France
    France women's national football team
    The French women's national football team represents France in international women's football. The team is directed by the French Football Federation and competes as a member of UEFA in various international football tournaments such as the FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA Women's Euro, the Summer...

     and the Netherlands
    Netherlands women's national football team
    The Netherlands women's national football team represents the Netherlands in international women's football. The team played the first women's international recognized by FIFA, on 17 April 1971 against France.-World Cup record:-Current squad:...

    . (The men's ranking system considers only matches in the last four years.)
  • FIFA Women's World Rankings are implicitly weighted to emphasize recent results. (The men's results are explicitly weighted on a sliding scale.)
  • FIFA Women's World Rankings are only published four times a year. Normally, rankings come out in March, June, September and December. (In World Cup
    FIFA Women's World Cup
    The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the...

     years, dates may be adjusted to reflect the World Cup results.)


The first two points result in a FIFA Women's World Rankings system which is far more similar to the Elo football rating system; ratings for teams with fewer than 30 matches should be considered provisional.

Leaders


To date Germany and the USA have been the only two teams to have led the rankings. Between them, they held the top two spots from the third set of rankings in October 2003, immediately after the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, through the December 2008 rankings. Germany was third behind Norway
Norway women's national football team
The Norway women's national football team represents Norway in international women's football. The team, controlled by the Football Association of Norway, are former European, World and Olympic champions and thus one of the most successful national teams...

 in the first two rankings, and dropped out of the top two in March 2009, replaced by Brazil
Brazil women's national football team
The Brazil women's national football team represents Brazil in international women's association football. Brazil played their first game on July 22, 1986 against the United States....

, though their successful 2009 Euro title defense pushed them back into the top two for the September 2009 ranking, where they have remained.

See also

  • Algarve Cup
    Algarve Cup
    The Algarve Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's football . Held annually in the Algarve region of Portugal since 1994, it is one of the most prestigious women's football events, alongside the Women's World Cup and Women's Olympic Football...

  • Elo football rating
  • FIFA Women's World Cup
    FIFA Women's World Cup
    The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the...

  • FIFA Men's World Rankings
    FIFA World Rankings
    The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, currently led by Spain. The teams of the member nations of FIFA , football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest...

  • Statistical association football predictions
  • Women's association football around the world

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