As 2021 draws to a close, various year-end awards in international football are also revealed, and what the outside world has been waiting for is the ranking of the national team. On December 23, FIFA officially announced the 2021 World Rankings. Belgium once again leads the world football world, with 1858.45 points topped the table, while the traditional strong team Brazil is in the second place, only 2.1 points less than Belgium, the above two teams are also the only two teams in the year with more than 1800 points, France is 1786.15 points in third place, England, Argentina are in 4th and 5th places, and 5 to 10 are Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and the Netherlands respectively.
It is not difficult to see that the world's top ten are covered by European and South American teams, of which as many as 8 teams in Europe, which also symbolizes the status of UEFA in world football. The results of Asian teams are average, not appearing in the world's top twenty sequence, Asia's 1st Iran ranks 21st in the world, while Japan is 2nd in Asia, but the world ranking is 5 places lower, while the 3rd place South Korea is directly outside 30, the 4th place Australia, the 5th Place Qatar are in the world's top 50, and Saudi Arabia, which has played well in the World Preliminary Round of 12, is ranked 6th in Asia and 51st in the world.
The Chinese team reached 1337.33 points, ranking 8th in Asia, 74th in the world, and 13.06 points behind the United Arab Emirates, the 7th in Asia. Asia ranked 8th to 10th in Iraq, Oman and Uzbekistan. Compared with the previous year's ranking, the national football team has improved by 1 place in the world ranking and the Asian ranking, this result is still relatively unexpected, because the current world preliminary results of the national football team are not good, only 1 victory in 6 games of the 12 rounds, basically eliminated, this result is obviously difficult to think of the ranking of the national football team.
If you analyze it carefully, the rise in the ranking of the national football team is due to the results of the previous stage of the World Preliminary Round, and the wave of 4 consecutive wins of the national football team earned enough points, which was still during the coaching period of Li Tie. Although the above ranking is not helpful for the top 12 matches, but may play an important role in the ownership of the seeded team of the Asian Cup, of course, the national football team also needs to maintain stability, once the game is insufficient or the results are not good, the 8th place of the national football team is also difficult to guarantee, and the world ranking is also one of the criteria to measure Li Xiaopeng's coaching level, the bottom line of the national football team is most likely the identity of the Seed Team of the Asian Cup, laying the foundation for the Asian Cup held locally.