Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz will end the year in the number 54 spot on the latest release of the FIFA/Coca Cola World Rankings to remain as the highest placed Caribbean team on the list and the number 4 team in CONCACAF overall.
World cup bound Mexico remain the top ranked CONCACAF team at 16 followed by the United States (24) and Costa Rica (26).
Panama (55th, up 1), Haiti (56th, up 1), Honduras (68th, up 2), Curacao 83rd, up 1), Trinidad and Tobago (87th, up 2), (Canada 94th) and Honduras (100) are the other CONCACAF teams in the top 100.
Germany meanwhile are the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking’s ‘Team of the Year’, having ended 2017 atop the global ladder.
The world champions, who qualified to defend their crown in Russia by winning all ten of their qualifiers and have been unbeaten in 15 matches in 2017, succeed Argentina and Belgium, who were ‘Team of the Year’ in 2016 and 2015 respectively.
The Germans held on to top spot in a largely unchanged Ranking that reflects the fact that just 41 ‘A’ internationals have been played since the previous edition, and that few of those involved teams at the top end of the table.
The result of that is a top 50 that shows only five changes, all minor and all outside the top 30, with Serbia (36th, up 1), Bosnia-Herzegovina (37th, up 1), Australia (38th, up 1) and Ghana (50th, up 1) all making identically narrow gains and Congo DR (39th, down 3) slipping slightly.
The rest of the top 10 which is unchanged is completed by Brazil, European champions Portugal, Argentina, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, France, and Chile.