china's national football team's world ranking dropped to 91st place, hitting an 8-year low
2024-09-20
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chinanews.com, september 19 (beijing time) on september 19, fifa released the latest world rankings of men's national football teams. the chinese team dropped 4 places from the previous period to 91st. the poor performance in the top 18 matches was the main reason for the decline in the national football team's ranking.
the last time fifa released the world rankings was in july this year, when china ranked 87th and 13th in asia. in the past scoring cycle, the main task of the chinese team was to prepare for and participate in the asian qualifiers for the world cup, but the final result was not ideal.
image source: screenshot of fifa website
in this round of 18, the chinese national football team fell into the "death group", together with japan, australia, saudi arabia, bahrain and indonesia in group c. according to the rules, the top two teams in this group can directly advance to the world cup finals, and the third and fourth places will be qualified to participate in the play-offs.
in the first two rounds of matches that have ended, the chinese national football team suffered two consecutive defeats, losing 0:7 to japan away and 1:2 to saudi arabia at home. head coach ivankovic also encountered a crisis of confidence.
since fifa established the ranking system, the lowest ranking of the chinese national football team in history was 109th in march 2013. the team's head coach at the time was the famous spanish coach camacho.
the chinese team was ranked 96th in the world in march 2016, and rose to 81st in april of that year. since then, the lowest world ranking of the national football team was 88th in february this year until this update. in other words, the current 91st place of the national football team is the worst ranking of the team in the past 8 years.
after losing to japan and saudi arabia, the next opponent of the chinese national football team in the round of 18 is the equally strong australian team. the match will be held on october 10, beijing time. (end)
(source: china news network)
