FIFA Women's World Ranking

This article is about the women's rankings. For the men's rankings, see FIFA Men's World Ranking.

Top 20 rankings as of 14 June 2024
Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		Spain	2099.89
2	1	France	2029.52
3	1	England	2023.47
4	1	Germany	2018.49
5	1	United States	2015.95
6		Sweden	1995.33
7		Japan	1975.97
8	1	Canada	1951.64
9	1	Brazil	1948.87
10	1	North Korea	1943.66
11	3	Netherlands	1936.12
12		Australia	1889.99
13		Denmark	1879.63
14	1	Iceland	1854.57
15	1	Italy	1849.91
16		Norway	1843.89
17		Austria	1829.6
18		Belgium	1808.15
19		China	1804.37
20		South Korea	1794.29
21		Portugal	1767.38
22	1	Colombia	1755.58
23	1	Scotland	1734.6
24	2	Switzerland	1731.02
25		Republic of Ireland	1721.04
26	1	Finland	1715.58
27	1	Russia	1703.92
28		New Zealand	1679.8
29	2	Mexico	1668.51
30		Czech Republic	1665.12
31	1	Wales	1662.72
32	3	Poland	1658.3
33		Argentina	1648.91
34	1	Serbia	1643.35
35	1	Ukraine	1629.81
36		Nigeria	1616.03
37		Vietnam	1611.3
38		Chile	1574.23
39		Philippines	1557.58
40	1	Slovenia	1550.68
41	1	Chinese Taipei	1545.46
42		Jamaica	1542.29
43		Hungary	1535.59
44		Costa Rica	1534.17
45		Romania	1528.29
46	1	Thailand	1520.62
47	1	Uzbekistan	1516.95
48	2	Northern Ireland	1515.95
49	1	Paraguay	1510.14
50	1	Slovakia	1504.6
51		South Africa	1494.31
52		Venezuela	1489.21
53		Haiti	1481.87
54		Myanmar	1481.44
55	2	Belarus	1471.42
56	3	Croatia	1448.32
57	1	Papua New Guinea	1440.64
58	3	Panama	1436.28
59	1	Morocco	1426.09
60		Greece	1413.18
61	1	Turkey	1407.82
62	1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1398.94
63	2	Iran	1398
64	1	Zambia	1396.7
65	1	Ghana	1393.99
66	3	Uruguay	1393.01
67	1	India	1389.02
68	1	Cameroon	1388.9
69	1	Ecuador	1386.05
70		Israel	1363.62
71		Ivory Coast	1355.45
72		Fiji	1343.37
73		Albania	1334.34
74		Jordan	1331.17
75	1	Azerbaijan	1321.84
76	1	Peru	1307.57
77		Trinidad and Tobago	1294.31
78		Tunisia	1280.87
79		Hong Kong	1275.27
80		Guatemala	1274.37
81		Mali	1272.76
82		Equatorial Guinea	1272.15
83		Senegal	1266.07
84		Algeria	1264.25
85	4	Montenegro	1260.92
86	1	Puerto Rico	1257.6
87		Malta	1253.46
88		Solomon Islands	1252.55
89	1	Guyana	1238.46
90	7	El Salvador	1226.2
91	5	Bahrain	1226.16
92		Cuba	1222.42
93		Laos	1217.34
94		Egypt	1217.29
95	4	Kosovo	1216.71
96		Malaysia	1213.21
97	1	Tonga	1211.2
98	2	Nepal	1208.42
99	4	Bulgaria	1207.22
100	1	Guam	1206.27
101	4	Samoa	1202.69
102	4	DR Congo	1201.45
103	4	Dominican Republic	1200.08
104	1	Lithuania	1199.9
105	6	Estonia	1195.44
106	2	New Caledonia	1194.64
107	2	Indonesia	1191
108	4	Bolivia	1188.1
109	7	Kazakhstan	1185.87
110	1	Congo	1161.03
111	1	Tahiti	1160.79
112	1	Cook Islands	1160.7
113	3	Faroe Islands	1159.32
114		United Arab Emirates	1158.26
115	3	Nicaragua	1154.94
116	1	Luxembourg	1154.69
117	2	Cambodia	1144.56
118	2	Latvia	1137.44
119	5	Georgia	1133.99
120	1	Togo	1130.06
121	1	Vanuatu	1126.89
122	1	Honduras	1114.37
123	12	North Macedonia	1111.97
124	1	Ethiopia	1109.59
125	2	Zimbabwe	1107.95
126		Namibia	1107.94
127	8	Cyprus	1105.67
128		Mongolia	1103.77
129	9	Moldova	1103.21
130	1	Gambia	1102.66
131	5	Palestine	1100.42
132	2	Kyrgyzstan	1099.57
133	2	Cape Verde	1099.55
134	2	Lebanon	1090.59
135	2	Suriname	1089.52
136	2	Burkina Faso	1085.78
137	1	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1078.84
138	1	Singapore	1077.34
139		Turkmenistan	1075.41
140		Bangladesh	1068.16
141		Sierra Leone	1059.98
142		Guinea	1057.39
143	4	Armenia	1051.95
144	1	Bermuda	1046.23
145	1	Gabon	1045.97
146	1	Central African Republic	1045.87
147	1	Tanzania	1045.79
148		Angola	1021.87
149		American Samoa	1010.26
150		Uganda	1007.21
151		Kenya	1004.74
152		Benin	1003.88
153		Botswana	1002.21
154		Tajikistan	991.2
155		Saint Lucia	975.08
156		Malawi	972.78
157		Sri Lanka	955.21
158		Pakistan	949.54
159		East Timor	946.01
160		Barbados	941.96
161		Maldives	938.55
162		Syria	931.42
163		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	923.84
164		Dominica	896.55
165		Liberia	882.37
166		Niger	876.5
167		Rwanda	874.81
168		Grenada	870.77
169		Belize	868
170		Seychelles	866.26
171		Mozambique	864.61
172		Iraq	862.8
173		Bhutan	853.48
174		Macau	850.91
175		Saudi Arabia	848.57
176		Lesotho	841.19
177		Guinea-Bissau	838.58
178		Burundi	829.84
179		Curaçao	820.81
180		Antigua and Barbuda	812.65
181		Cayman Islands	800.82
182		Eswatini	791.04
183	1	U.S. Virgin Islands	771.47
184	1	Andorra	769.79
185		Aruba	737.24
186		British Virgin Islands	735.87
187		Comoros	717.41
188		Anguilla	691.37
189		Madagascar	687.98
190		Bahamas	665.71
191		South Sudan	650.32
192		Turks and Caicos Islands	628.42
193		Mauritius	394.19
*Change from 15 March 2024
Complete rankings at FIFA.com

The FIFA Women's World Ranking is a ranking system for women's national teams in association football (commonly known as football or soccer) published be the international governing body FIFA. As of March 2024, the Spain national team is ranked #1.

The rankings were introduced in 2003, with the first rankings published on 16 July of that year. FIFA attempts to assess the strength of internationally active women's national teams at any given time based on their past game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. As of January 2023, the ranking has 185 national teams.

The ranking has more than informative value, as it is often used to seed member associations into different pots in international tournaments.

Specifics of the ranking system

• FIFA Women's World Rankings are based on every international match a team ever played, dating back to 1971, the first FIFA-recognized women's international between France and the Netherlands.
• FIFA Women's World Rankings are implicitly weighted to emphasize recent results.
• FIFA Women's World Rankings are only published four times a year. Normally, rankings are released in March, June, September and December. (In World Cup years, dates may be adjusted to reflect the World Cup results.)

The first two points result from the FIFA Women's World Rankings system being based on the Elo rating system adjusted for football; in 2018, FIFA modified the men's ranking system to similarly be based on Elo systems after continued criticism. FIFA considers the ratings for teams with fewer than 5 matches provisional and at the end of the list. In addition, any team that plays no matches for 4 years becomes unranked; this inactivity limit was previously 18 months, but was extended in early 2021 (after the COVID-19 pandemic stifled a significant amount of international play).

Ranking schedule

Rankings are generally published four times a year. The next update is scheduled for 16 August 2024.

Leaders

As of the 15 December 2023 rankings release, Spain is the number one ranked team. The United States holds the record for the longest consecutive period leading the rankings of nearly 7 years, from March 2008 to December 2014.

Before the 2023 World Cup, the United States and Germany had been the only two teams to lead the women's rankings, and these two teams also had held the top two spots in all but six releases, when Germany was ranked third (only Norway, Brazil, England and Sweden had reached second during this time).

No.	Team	Confederation	Days at No. 1
1	United States	CONCACAF	5,715 days
2	Germany	UEFA	1,701 days
3	Spain	UEFA	220 days
4	Sweden	UEFA	112 days

Ranking procedure

The rankings are based on the following formulae:

$R_{aft}=R_{bef}+K(S_{act}-S_{exp})$

$S_{exp}={\frac {1}{1+10^{-x/2}}}$

$x={\frac {R_{bef}-O_{bef}\pm H}{c}}$

Where

$R_{aft}$	= The team rating after the match
$R_{bef}$	= The team rating before the match
$K$	= $15M$, the weighted importance of the match
$S_{act}$	= The actual result of the match, see below
$S_{exp}$	= The expected result of the match
$x$	= The scaled difference in rating points between the teams
$O_{bef}$	= The opposing team's rating before the match
$H$	= The "home advantage" correction, see below
$c$	= A scaling factor, see below
$M$	= The "Match Importance Factor", see below

The average points of all teams are about 1300 points. The top nations usually exceed 2000 points. In order to be ranked, a team must have played at least 5 matches against officially ranked teams, and have not been inactive for more than 18 months. Even if teams are not officially ranked, their points rating is kept constant until they play their next match.

Actual result of the match

The main component of the actual result is whether the team wins, loses, or draws, but goal difference is also taken into account.

If the match results in a winner and loser, the loser is awarded a percentage given by the accompanying table, with the result always less than or equal to 20% (for goal differences greater than zero). The result is based on the goal difference and the number of goals they scored. The remaining percentage points are awarded to the winner. For example, a 2–1 match has the result awarded 84%–16% respectively, a 4–3 match has the result awarded 82%–18%, and an 8–3 match has the result awarded 96.2%–3.8%. As such, it is possible for a team to lose points even if they win a match, assuming they did not "win by enough".

If the match ends in a draw the teams are awarded the same result, but the number depends on the goals scored so the results will not necessarily add up to 100%. For example, a 0–0 draws earns both teams 47% each, a 1–1 draw earns 50% each, and a 4–4 draw earns 52.5% each.

	Goal Difference
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6 /+
Goals scored by non winning team	Actual result (percentage)
0	47.0 / 47.0	85.0 / 15.0	92.0 / 8.0	96.0 / 4.0	97.0 / 3.0	98.0 / 2.0	99.0 / 1.0
1	50.0 / 50.0	84.0 / 16.0	91.1 / 8.9	95.2 / 4.8	96.3 / 3.7	97.4 / 2.6	98.5 / 1.5
2	51.0 / 51.0	83.0 / 17.0	90.2 / 9.8	94.4 / 5.6	95.6 / 4.4	96.8 / 3.2	98.0 / 2.0
3	52.0 / 52.0	82.0 / 18.0	89.3 / 10.7	93.6 / 6.4	94.9 / 5.1	96.2 / 3.8	97.5 / 2.5
4	52.5 / 52.5	81.0 / 19.0	88.4 / 11.6	92.8 / 7.2	94.2 / 5.8	95.6 / 4.4	97.0 / 3.0
5	53.0 / 53.0	80.0 / 20.0	87.5 / 12.5	92.0 / 8.0	93.5 / 6.5	95.0 / 5.0	96.5 / 3.5

Source

Neutral ground or Home vs. Away

Historically, home teams earn 66% of the points available to them, with away teams earning the other 34%. To account for this, when two teams are not playing on neutral ground, the home team has its $R_{bef}$ inflated by 100 points for the purposes of calculation. That is, if two equally ranked teams playing at one team's home ground, the home team would be expected to win at the same rate a team playing on neutral ground with a 100-point advantage. This 100 point difference corresponds to a 64%–36% advantage in terms of expected result. The scaling factor remains the same (c=200).

Importance of the match

Match importance	Match importance factor (M)	K-value
FIFA Women's World Cup match	4	60
Women's Olympic football tournament	4	60
FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier	3	45
Women's Olympic football qualifier	3	45
Women's Continental finals match	3	45
Women's Continental qualifier	2	30
Women's friendly match between two Top 10 teams	2	30
Women's friendly match	1	15

See also

• World Football Elo Ratings
• FIFA International Match Calendar
• Statistical association football predictions
• Geography of women's association football

External links

• Official website
• Women's World Ranking Procedure at FIFA.com
• Women’s World Ranking Fact Sheet