Herman & Jostein's Soccer Ratings

Rating 1st half 1998

Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
1		2		Brazil	7,94	3
2		1		Yugoslavia	7,65	4
3		7		Netherlands	7,47	3
4		8		Argentina	7,42
5	-	5		Spain	7,42	4
6	-	6		Germany	7,38	5
7		11		Romania	7,35	6
8		4		Croatia	7,34	3
9		10		Italy	7,30	3
10		9		France	7,24	4
11		16		Portugal	7,23	5
12	-	12		England	7,02	4
13		3		Norway	7,00	5
14		15		Czech Republic	6,94	5
15		14		Mexico	6,89	3
16		18		Chile	6,83
17		21		Israel	6,82	6
18		17		Greece	6,80	3
19		37		Ireland	6,79	3
20		31		Ukraine	6,69	5
21		19		Belgium	6,69	1
22		13		Russia	6,68	6
23		27		Sweden	6,68	3
24		23		Paraguay	6,68
25	-	25		Morocco	6,66	3

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
26		44		Poland	6,64	5
27		24		Colombia	6,62
28		22		Ecuador	6,59	1
29	-	29		Austria	6,58	4
30		20		Denmark	6,54	4
31		28		Peru	6,47	1
32		30		Uruguay	6,43
33	-	33		Bolivia	6,41
34		36		Iran	6,38	9
35		34		United States	6,38	1
36		39		Turkey	6,29	3
37		38		Egypt	6,24	7
38		40		Costa Rica	6,22
39		42		Japan	6,21	1
40		35		Scotland	6,15	3
41		56		Kuwait	6,09	18
42		43		Australia	6,07	5
43		45		South Korea	6,04	7
44		32		Slovakia	6,03	5
45		47		Switzerland	6,00	4
46		61		Hungary	5,96	5
47		26		Georgia	5,91	6
48		64		Finland	5,90	4
49		69		Wales	5,89	3
50		60		Macedonia	5,86	4

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
51		41		Bulgaria	5,85	5
52		62		Albania	5,84	4
53		59		Guatemala	5,81	2
54		52		Nigeria	5,74	1
55	-	55		Tunisia	5,73	2
56		57		South Africa	5,73	2
57		70		Slovenia	5,68	4
58		65		China	5,68	10
59		46		Northern Ireland	5,66	3
60		49		Honduras	5,66	3
61		58		Jamaica	5,65	6
62		83		Iceland	5,64	4
63		67		Saudi Arabia	5,63	8
64		68		Ivory Coast	5,63	3
65		72		Iraq	5,59	1
66		80		Ghana	5,56	3
67		82		Latvia	5,50	5
68		50		Lithuania	5,50	5
69		91		Trinidad & Tobago	5,45	5
70		63		Cameroon	5,40	1
71		75		El Salvador	5,37	3
72		51		Burundi	5,37	3
73		66		Zambia	5,36	5
74		78		Algeria	5,32	4
75		90		Belarus	5,31	3

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
76		54		Syria	5,30	7
77		73		Zanzibar	5,29
78		48		Bosnia-Herzegovina	5,23	4
79		84		Armenia	5,19	4
80		79		Angola	5,17	5
81		76		Cyprus	5,16	4
82		87		Congo-Brazzaville	5,13	3
83		109		Moldova	5,12	6
84		85		Canada	5,10
85		77		Zimbabwe	5,09	4
86		74		United Arab Emirates	5,07	14
87		93		Uzbekistan	5,06	8
88		81		Guinea	5,05	1
89		92		Congo-Kinshasa	5,03	1
90		89		Venezuela	5,02
91		86		Mali	5,01	3
92		88		Senegal	5,00	3
93		71		Qatar	4,89	15
94	-	94		Gabon	4,87	3
95		115		Uganda	4,85	4
96		98		Estonia	4,79	8
97		96		Sierra Leone	4,79	1
98		119		New Zealand	4,78	4
99		97		Kenya	4,75	4
100		103		Togo	4,72	4

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
101		140		Chad	4,71	2
102		129		Faroe Islands	4,62	4
103		105		Kazakstan	4,60	5
104		95		Jordan	4,60	5
105		102		Mozambique	4,59	6
106		113		Oman	4,55	14
107		106		Lebanon	4,53	13
108		114		Benin	4,47	2
109		121		Liberia	4,46	3
110		53		Tajikistan	4,46	5
111	-	111		Burkina Faso	4,44	3
112		116		Namibia	4,41	5
113		112		Cuba	4,36
114		118		Tanzania	4,31	2
115		104		Sudan	4,28	3
116		120		Panama	4,23
117		137		Andorra	4,23	3
118		100		Madagascar	4,20	5
119		108		Niger	4,17	2
120		127		Bahrain	4,16	7
121		124		Grenada	4,13
122		123		Malawi	4,10	4
123		126		Indonesia	4,09	4
124		134		Turkmenistan	4,06	7
125	-	125		Gambia	4,06

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
126		101		Thailand	4,05	14
127		122		Haiti	3,99	5
128	-	128		Mauritania	3,92
129		107		Martinique	3,91	3
130		110		Azerbaijan	3,89	5
131		99		Libya	3,87	6
132				Reunion	3,86	2
133	-	133		Barbados	3,81
134		139		Luxembourg	3,79	3
135		144		Cape Verde	3,68	3
136	-	136		Ethiopia	3,67
137		135		Malta	3,63	5
138		130		Palestine	3,62	3
139		138		Kyrgyzstan	3,57
140				North Korea	3,52	4
141	-	141		Yemen	3,47
142		143		Belize	3,44
143		132		Eritrea	3,41	1
144		153		Singapore	3,34	5
145		154		Swaziland	3,34	3
146	-	146		Central African Republic	3,33
147	-	147		Guinea-Bissau	3,31
148		145		Mauritius	3,27	5
149		148		Guyana	3,26
150	-	150		Saint Lucia	3,18

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
151		158		Botswana	3,17	2
152	-	152		Saint Vincent & the Grenadines	3,16	1
153		151		Bermuda	3,14
154		142		Malaysia	3,08	3
155		117		Rwanda	3,01	2
156		165		Antigua & Barbuda	2,99	7
157		155		Seychelles	2,99	2
158		131		Hong Kong	2,77	2
159		149		Lesotho	2,76	2
160	-	160		Vietnam	2,74	7
161		156		Nicaragua	2,67
162		161		Saint Kitts & Nevis	2,64	1
163		157		Cayman Islands	2,61	3
164		159		Suriname	2,54
165				Equatorial Guinea	2,40	2
166		167		Fiji	2,33	8
167		162		India	2,27	6
168		169		Tahiti	2,21	8
169		164		Myanmar	2,18	3
170				São Tomé & Príncipe	2,13	2
171		166		Taiwan	2,04
172	-	172		San Marino	2,02	3
173		163		Netherlands Antilles	1,84	3
174		170		Guadeloupe	1,75
175		171		French Guyana	1,75

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
176	-	176		Liechtenstein	1,73	3
177		175		Bangladesh	1,54
178		177		Sri Lanka	1,39
179		174		Solomon Islands	1,34	4
180		173		Laos	1,29	5
181		168		Dominica	1,11	3
182		179		Dominican Republic	1,05
183		180		Pakistan	1,01
184		181		Aruba	0,95
185		184		Nepal	0,82	2
186		178		Papua New Guinea	0,59	4
187	-	187		Cambodia	0,48	2
188		185		Macau	0,27
189		188		Philippines	0,19	3
190		186		Djibouti	0,04	2
191		182		Vanuatu	-0,01	6
192		183		New Caledonia	-0,15	4
193		189		Puerto Rico	-0,31
194		191		Saint Maarten	-0,48	1
195		190		Somalia	-0,66
196		192		Brunei Darussalam	-0,69
197		195		Maldives	-1,45	2
198		193		US Virgin Islands	-1,50
199		194		British Virgin Islands	-1,78	1
200		196		Samoa	-3,34	4

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Ranking		Last ranking		Team	Rating	Matches
201		197		Tonga	-4,27	4
202		198		Guam	-4,89
203		201		Cook Islands	-5,17	6
204		199		Montserrat	-5,99
205		200		Anguilla	-6,20
206				Mongolia	-7,40	2
207				American Samoa	-7,42	4
208		202		Wallis & Futuna	-9,32

Explanation of column headings:
Ranking - self-explaining
Last ranking - ranking of 1st half 1998
Team - self-explaining
Rating - for explanation go here
Matches - number of matches played in 2nd half 1998 (since World Cup)

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