FIFA Women's World Rankings

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The FIFA Women's World Rankings for football were introduced in July 2003 as a follow-on to the existing FIFA World Rankings for men. FIFA Women's World Rankings attempt to compare the strength of internationally active teams at any given time and ranks FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying teams.

There are several important distinctions in the FIFA Women's World Rankings formula:

FIFA Women's World Rankings are only published four times a year. Normally, rankings come out in March, June, September and December. However, the dates may be adjusted in World Cup years; for example, in 2007, the third set of rankings came out in October, as the World Cup was played in September. In contrast, FIFA Men's World Rankings are published monthly.
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 and the Netherlands. The men's ranking system considers only matches in the last four years.
FIFA Women's World Rankings is not weighted to emphasize recent results, whereas the men's results are weighted on a sliding scale, thus emphasizing recent results.

This results 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.

1 Top 30
2 Leaders
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Top 30

Rank	Team	Points
1	USA	2207
2	Germany	2173
3	Sweden	2084
4	Brazil	2082
5	Norway	2042
6	Korea DPR	2023
7	France	1998
8	Denmark	1996
9	Canada	1957
10	Japan	1956
11	England	1945
12	Australia	1929
13	Italy	1914
14	China PR	1893
15	Russia	1890
16	Finland	1860
17	Ukraine	1848
18	Netherlands	1823
19	Iceland	1812
20	Czech Republic	1808
21	Spain	1805
22	Mexico	1777
23	New Zealand	1724
24	Nigeria	1718
25	Korea Republic	1707
26	Scotland	1704
27	Poland	1659
27	Switzerland	1659
29	Argentina	1658
30	Republic of China	1651

As of March, 2008.

[edit] Leaders

Team	Times
Germany	15
USA	5

To date Germany and the USA have been the only two teams to have led the rankings; together they have held the top two spots since the third set of rankings came out in October 2003, immediately after the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup.