World Ranking

**Wolfman** · 09/07/2015, 11:39 AM

Who cares? We're cr*p and the next 3 tournaments from 2018 look awful.

**davidatrb** · 09/07/2015, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by DeLorean

Up eight places to 52nd but confirmed Pot 4 for World Cup Qualifying.

Ireland to be fourth seeds in Russia 2018 qualification draw

Some notes on the various pots here:

http://fog2014.blogspot.ie/2015/07/f...kings-day.html

**DeLorean** · 06/08/2015, 1:48 PM

Our relentless rise continues. Watch your backs Cape Verde.

FIFA World Rankings

**nigel-harps1954** · 06/08/2015, 5:16 PM

Hauld on there just a minute...Wales are ranked higher than Spain?

Er..

**DeLorean** · 06/08/2015, 9:53 PM

It's lunacy of epic proportions that any system would allow England ahead of them in such a short time frame, having done very little of note... but Wales, Sweet Mother!!

**Crosby87** · 01/10/2015, 10:41 PM

Irish slip 3 spots, now one spot ahead of powerhouse Guinea.
And the hits just keep on coming.
http://www.the42.ie/the-latest-fifa-...61376-Oct2015/

Any of you london based chaps going to the Jets game on sunday?

**paul_oshea** · 02/10/2015, 10:37 AM

Most would be going to the rugby Crosby

**swinfordfc** · 08/10/2015, 10:28 PM

Hope this will help tonight

... but lets wait till Sunday night

**tricky_colour** · 09/10/2015, 12:47 AM

Originally Posted by swinfordfc

Hope this will help tonight

... but lets wait till Sunday night

Got to knock us up a few points surely?

Not sure how it works though do we get more points based on the teams ranking? I guess you must?

**NeverFeltBetter** · 09/10/2015, 1:05 AM

Absolutely. Ireland will be getting a fair heap of points for this, but the specific number eludes me.

**boysingreen** · 09/10/2015, 7:43 AM

Be great slotting into that #1 slot after beating the world champs.

Not sure if #1 contender (#2) slot goes to Germany or Conor McGregor.

**swinfordfc** · 09/10/2015, 10:59 AM

If we were to beat Poland .... think we would be about 28/29th in the rankings .... roughly

**fionnsci** · 09/10/2015, 1:50 PM

Can anyone tell me if this will aid our co-efficient for the purposes of seeding for the play offs (assuming we don't go all the way hup)?

**eekers** · 09/10/2015, 4:27 PM

Originally Posted by fionnsci

Can anyone tell me if this will aid our co-efficient for the purposes of seeding for the play offs (assuming we don't go all the way hup)?

Play off seeding is done on uefa rankings.
Latest - http://www.footballseeding.com/national-ranking-uefa/

These are the likely play off teams. Numbers are their current rankings.
6 netherlands or 26 turkey
12 ukraine
15 denmark
18 ireland

28 slovenia
21 sweden
24 norway
27 israel or 16 bosnia

Sweden however can go past Ireland with 2 wins against Moldova(h) Liechtenstein(a).
We could still end up as top seeds or bottom. Holland messing up would help.

**Stuttgart88** · 09/10/2015, 9:24 PM

See Davidatrb's post on the matter. Foot.ie perfection, even if he did confuse destiny with destination.

**DannyInvincible** · 10/10/2015, 12:55 AM

Who would be the lowest ranked team ever, or in recent years even, to have beaten Germany in a competitive game? We must be close in 54th.

**TheBoss** · 10/10/2015, 2:40 AM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Who would be the lowest ranked team ever, or in recent years even, to have beaten Germany in a competitive game? We must be close in 54th.

Just a quick check. They seem to lose in October

Poland were 70th last October.
Turkey were 62nd in October 1998.

**DannyInvincible** · 10/10/2015, 2:58 AM

Poland were ranked 44th when they beat Germany. They'd been ranked 70th the month prior to that, but were 44th when they met Germany. Think you're right on Turkey (or they were the last team to beat them ranked below us anyway), although they were ranked 60th when they beat Germany. It was exactly 17 years ago today, funnily enough.

**DannyInvincible** · 10/10/2015, 3:15 AM

I also must apologise. You were completely correct, it seems. My conflicting information above was incorrect. The rankings haven't always been announced on the 1st of every month, which was the source of confusion.

But, anyway, yes, Germany seem to go bad round October, just like San Marino always come good in February.

**Crosby87** · 10/10/2015, 3:23 AM

Stupid question but....ill ask anyway. Do Germany's all time stats include being West Germany? Or is it a separate entity? BC WG is basically or was basically always Germany right? I mean soccer wise?