Looking back at the 2021 record, the national football team has experienced a process of high and low, the most critical main line of which is the World Preliminary Round, from the top 40 to the top twelve, the national football team from the joy of celebrating the qualification to the pain of the failure of the World Cup, in the final analysis, it is still a failed experience. The period was also interspersed with criticism of the coach, ridicule of the players eating sea cucumbers, and heated discussions about the management of the Football Association.
Just after the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup consecutively and tenaciously, the men's football team once again fell into the bottom, and this time it was all-round, and there were almost no bright spots to speak of. Performance failures always have to be reflected in the data, in the world rankings released by FIFA, the position of Chinese men's football has changed. Last year's poor record was able to sit in the world's 74th place, and now it has loosened, dropping to 75th.
Catching up with the national football team is the old rival, the bitter owner of the Iraqi men's football team, the latter's current record in the top 12 matches is the same as the national football record, all of which are 8 rounds of 5 points, but Iraq has no victory, only 5 draws. Of course, what is stronger than the national football team is that Iraq still has the hope of competing for a place in the play-offs. After the ranking fell to 9th place, if the Chinese men's football team does not work hard, it is likely to fall to 10th place in the next stage.
Oman in the same group has reached 1301 points, only 13 points lower than the national football team, and the two sides have another meeting in the World Preliminary Round, and Oman is expected to surpass in the process of this and that. The current Asian ranking is also very critical, because the Chinese men's football team will focus on the 2023 Asian Cup, when the Asian ranking is also related to the grouping of seeded teams, if the men's football team wants to go further, it needs to lay a good foundation in advance to ensure that the group stage avoids strong teams.
Referring to the rankings, the official announcement of the Chinese men's football team in the world ranking record is 37th, which is the achievement of Horton in 1998, when the Chinese men's football team was able to beat the Japanese team 2-0, which is the peak result, and now it is 2-3 Vietnam. The lowest ranking is Camacho's 109th place under his time in 2013.
For more than 23 years, the median ranking of the national football team is 73rd, which is currently close to this level. However, with the current performance of the Chinese men's football team, surpassing the all-time high of 37th place is an almost impossible task, and it is difficult to overcome the gap of 38 places. At present, only by going downhill can we hope to bottom out.