China again outperforms Syria in the new FIFA rankings

The Syrian national football team, according to the latest classification of the International Federation of Football (FIFA), issued yesterday, until September 16, has fallen to the 80th place in the world, in the classification of the status of the “Nour Qasioun” team, which qualified last June to the third stage of the World Cup qualifiers. As its first group in the double Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, and Asia 2023, nine places behind its runner-up in those qualifiers, the Chinese team, which came according to the new classification, ranked 71st in the world.

The International Federation usually depends on the monthly classification, through the performance of the teams’ matches in tournaments and friendly and official matches, and their results, and the absence of “Nour Qasioun” from the friendly matches in the past period resulted in its decline according to the latest classification of “FIFA”, occupying “Nour Qasioun” in ninth place. In the Arab world, and the tenth Asian, with a score of 1303 points, after the Tunisian team came as the first Arab team in the classification of the International Federation, and in the 28th place in the world with 1515 points, 16 points ahead of its Algerian brother, the second Arab team and the 30th place in the world, and the Moroccan team ranked Third in the Arab world and 32 globally, with a score of 1488 points.

In Asia, the Japanese team maintained its lead in the standings of the yellow continent, ranking 24th in the world, with 1509 points, nine points ahead of the Iranian team, which came second in Asia and 26th in the world, and the Australian team advanced to third place in the yellow continent. With a score of 1457 points, it would have placed him 35th in the world.

Globally, there has been no change in the top ranks, after Belgium maintained the first place for the third consecutive year with 1822 points, surpassing the second-placed Brazil with 1798 points, France third with 1761 points, and England, the runner-up for Euro 2020 in fourth place with 1752 A point, ahead of the European champions, the Italian national team, which ranked fifth in the world with 1,744 points.

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