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Reggae Boyz slide on September FIFA Rankings

by September 14th, 2017

Jamaica has dropped four places on the latest release of the FIFA Coca Cola World Rankings.

The Reggae Boyz, who split a pair of international friendlies with Trinidad and Tobago and Canada, occupy the number 61 spot and are now the second highest placed Caribbean team on the rankings and are 6th in CONCACAF overall.

CONCACAF meanwhile continues to be led by Mexico at 14 followed by Costa Rica 21, Gold Cup winners United States 28 (down 2 spots), Haiti 48 (up 7 places) and Panama 60 (up one place).

Other teams from the region inside the top 100 are Honduras 74, Curacao 86, Canada 96 along with El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago who are joint 99th.

Top spot on the rankings is now held by reigning World Cup and Confederations Cup winners Germany edged ahead of Brazil following two impressive World Cup qualifying victories over Czech Republic and Norway.

Euro 2016 winners Portugal, Argentina and Belgium complete the top 5.

Rounding out the top 10 are Poland, Switzerland, France, Chile and Colombia.

Egypt is Africa’s highest ranked team at 30.

Among the most notable climbers are the Cape Verde Islands (67, up 47), Luxembourg (101, up 35), Bolivia (46, up 22) and Denmark (26, up 20), this on the back of stunning results in qualifying against South Africa, France, Chile and Poland respectively.

Luxembourg are also one of four teams to have reached an all-time high position in the latest Ranking, along with Peru (12, up 3), Northern Ireland (20, up 3) and Syria (75, up 5).

The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on October 16, 2017.

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