BEST TEAM 2010

This article is about the men's rankings.

Top 25 Rankings as of 15 December 2010[1]
Rank	Team	Points	Confederation	+/−
1	Spain	1887	UEFA
2	Netherlands	1723	UEFA
3	Germany	1485	UEFA
4	Brazil	1446	CONMEBOL
5	Argentina	1338	CONMEBOL
6	England	1195	UEFA
7	Uruguay	1152	CONMEBOL
8	Portugal	1090	UEFA
9	Egypt	1078	CAF
10	Croatia	1075	UEFA
11	Greece	1016	UEFA
12	Norway	995	UEFA
13	Russia	982	UEFA
14	Italy	965	UEFA
15	Chile	950	CONMEBOL
16	Ghana	908	CAF
17	Slovenia	903	UEFA
18	United States	866	CONCACAF
19	France	857	UEFA
20	Slovakia	853	UEFA
21	Côte d'Ivoire	846	CAF
22	Switzerland	841	UEFA
23	Serbia	837	UEFA
24	Paraguay	832	CONMEBOL
25	Montenegro	824	UEFA

The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, currently led by Spain. The teams of the member nations of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. The rankings were introduced in December 1992, and six teams (Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) have held the top position, of which Brazil have spent longest ranked first.

A point system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of all FIFA-recognised full international matches. Under the existing system, rankings are based on a team's performance over the last four years, with more recent results and more significant matches being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team. The ranking system was most recently revamped after the 2006 World Cup, with the first edition of the new series of rankings issued on 12 July 2006. The most significant change, is that the rankings are now based on results over the previous four years instead of the previous eight years. The change is perceived to respond to criticisms, that the FIFA world rankings, based upon the previous calculation method in use from January 1999 to June 2006, did not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams. (See section Criticism).

Alternative systems have been devised, such as the World Football Elo Ratings, based on the Elo rating system used in chess and Go, ranking teams on an all time basis. The Unofficial Football World Championships ranks teams on the number of times they have defended the Unofficial Football World Championship, an award devised solely for that purpose.

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