England climb Fifa rankings despite poor World Cup form

England have risen one place to seventh in Fifa's official world rankings, despite their poor showing at the recent World Cup in South Africa. On Tuesday, meanwhile, England's performance in South Africa was officially confirmed as their worst at a World Cup finals by Fifa, which rated them 13th out of the 32 competing teams.

But that was considerably better than Italy and France, who were 26th and 29th after failing to progress from the first-round group stage.
Their decline has also been reflected in the latest world rankings with 2006 champions Italy falling six places to 11th and France, the 1998 World Cup winners, slipping 12 places to 21st.

The biggest movers in the rankings are New Zealand, who have climbed 24 places to 54th after going unbeaten in their three group games at the World Cup, a performance which was not, however, good enough to see them through to the last 16.

Elsewhere,Scotland have risen two places to 41st, while Northern Ireland have fallen three places to 59th and Wales are down seven places to 84th. The Republic of Ireland have moved up five places to 36th.

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How have Scotland risen anywhere? Last year was our worst footballing year for about six years.

Fifa rankings never seem to make a lot of sense.

i wonder where italy went..i love them

Geographically not far.