FIFA Rankings

The Republic of Ireland have risen one place in the FIFA Rankings despite losing to Russia and drawing with Slovakia.  Northern Ireland have moved up four places to 41st with some good results mixed with a bad draw against the Faroes. Wales have gone down 20 places to 104th in October's rankings.England remain in 6th spot while Scotland dropped down 10 positions to 57th.

Table taken from www.fifa.com

1	Spain	1881	0		57
2	Netherlands	1683	0		20
3	Brazil	1493	1		13
4	Germany	1481	-1		-9
5	Argentina	1320	0		-31
6	England	1205	0		14
7	Uruguay	1167	0		-15
8	Portugal	1123	0		74
9	Croatia	1086	2		88
10	Russia	1061	15		193
11	Egypt	1034	-2		0
12	Greece	1026	0		53
13	Norway	989	1		31
14	Chile	931	-4		-73
15	Slovenia	926	4		29
16	Italy	901	-3		-64
17	Ghana	891	3		2
18	France	888	9		53
19	Côte d'Ivoire	871	4		-6
20	Slovakia	865	-4		-54
21	Australia	862	3		-12
22	Serbia	861	-7		-84
23	Switzerland	842	-2		-40
24	Paraguay	840	-7		-64
25	USA	838	-7		-61
26	Montenegro	827	14		143
27	Denmark	799	2		18
28	Mexico	786	0		-9
29	Turkey	780	-8		-102
30	Japan	779	0		6
31	Czech Republic	739	6		22
32	Republic of Ireland	710	1		-35
33	Algeria	709	2		-23
34	Nigeria	708	0		-25
35	Ukraine	706	-9		-132
36	Sweden	696	-4		-64
37	Burkina Faso	681	2		-22
38	Cameroon	676	-1		-41
39	Gabon	662	-8		-106
40	Korea Republic	640	4		0
41	Northern Ireland	627	4		-11
42	Belarus	623	13		69
43	Bulgaria	605	11		49
44	Hungary	598	7		31
45	Tunisia	586	11		35
46	Colombia	584	-6		-100
47	Guinea	580	34		186
48	Lithuania	577	-6		-98
49	Austria	574	12		46
50	Romania	568	-4		-