As a result of the World Cup debacle, the men's selection of the German Football Association (DFB) has slipped further in the world rankings of the world football association FIFA.
The national team of national coach Hansi Flick ends 2022 in 14th place after being eleventh in October.
The gap to the first ten places increased from 16.36 to 45.8 points.
Reason is the elimination already with the completion of the preliminary round of the World Cup.
Record world champions Brazil were able to just keep their lead, even though Argentina came very close with their World Cup triumph in Qatar in second place.
If they had won the World Cup in regular time, Argentina would have overtaken their arch-rivals as number one.
The defeated World Cup finalist France advanced to third place.
The biggest “winner” is unsurprisingly Morocco.
The first World Cup semi-finalist from Africa jumped from 22nd to 11th place.
Australia (27th) also moved up eleven places thanks to reaching the round of 16 in Qatar.
Denmark had to accept an even greater step backwards than Germany in the ranking.
The Danes, who were also eliminated in the preliminary round at the World Championships, dropped eight places to 18th place.