FIFA Ranking Shake-Up: New Teams Break into Top 10

With the Africa Cup of Nations over and the World Cup just around the corner, the rankings are changing once again in the months leading up to the next global tournament. A 2026 World Cup with a new format, new teams, and more of them. What is the updated FIFA ranking trying to tell us? The finalists of the Africa Cup of Nations have benefited from their champion and runner-up finishes, but Morocco was the only team to break into the top 10, reaching eighth place. The Atlas Lions managed to climb four places, as in the previous ranking they were in twelfth position. On the other hand, Senegal, despite being the champion of the most recent international competition, failed to break into the top ten, but improved its ranking to twelfth place, very close to the world’s top ten teams. The losers in the ranking Due to Morocco's climb to eighth place, Belgium and Germany each dropped one spot, to ninth and tenth respectively. Croatia fell completely out of the top 10 in this ranking and now sits in eleventh position The rest of the list The list continues to be led by Spain, followed by Argentina just under four points behind, and France rounding out the top three, also three points behind Argentina. The podium is very close. Next, England is in fourth place, Brazil in fifth, Portugal in sixth, and the Netherlands in seventh.