Uganda Crested Cranes team is now ranked by the world’s football governing body, Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) for the first time ever.
Uganda, who recently played an international friendly match with Kenya and lost 4-0 in Kisumu are now ranked at 129th of 134 countries moving into the ranking system for the first time ever.
Despite the 4-0 defeat to Kenya on 3rd July 2016, Uganda attained the ranking.
Surprisingly, Kenya who on Sunday whipped Uganda again 4-0 in the 2016 CECAFA Women Championship dropped one place to 132nd on the rankings.
CECAFA’s best:
Ethiopia is the best ranked country in the CECAFA Region at 105th placing with 1155 points despite a fall by one place.
Tanzania is 125th with 947 points, Uganda at 129th (855 points) and Kenya at 132nd with 822 points.
Kenya Harambee Starlets XI against Uganda Crested Cranes on 11th September 2016
The rest of the other CECAFA countries are not ranked by FIFA.
Top Ranked Countries:
Despite an upset quarter-final defeat to Sweden on penalties at Rio 2016, USA remain top of the ranking.
However, their lead over new Olympic champions Germany was cut by more than half to their lowest-ever rating of 2,137 points.
Though the Swedes claimed their first-ever Olympic medal with Silver at Rio 2016, the Scandinavians lost seven rating points to remain in sixth place.
Quarter-finalists Australia dropped two places to seventh, while Olympic hosts Brazil dropped to their lowest-ever ranking of tenth after missing out on the podium.
Canada’s bronze medal win at the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016 saw the North Americans reach their highest-ever position of fourth in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking.
Winning five of their six matches at Rio 2016, Canada not only matched their achievement of winning bronze at the London 2012 Olympics, they were rewarded with a massive 93-point increase in their rating to move up six places from tenth position.
It is the first time that Canada have moved into the top five, surpassing their previous high of seventh place.
Canada’s fourth-place ranking was not the only notable achievement for John Herdman’s side
Other top-ten nations to slip were England and Japan, who both dropped one position to fifth and eight respectively.
Faroe Islands (75th) were the next highest movers upward, jumping five places in the ranking after friendly wins over Lithuania and Latvia earlier this month.
United Arab Emirates (76th) had the biggest drop, however, falling three places after a pair of friendly defeats to Luxembourg in late June.
Guam (80th) re-entered the table moving a massive 53 places up the log.
There are no teams disappeared from the ranking due to prolonged inactivity.
As a result, 134 teams are currently ranked.
How the rankings were done:
This month’s Women’s Olympic Football Tournament accounted for around 40 per cent of the 63 matches played in the last two months, with many of the remaining fixtures being friendly games.
The next FIFA Women’s World Ranking will be published on 23 December 2016
