The world champions have edged ahead of A Seleção following two impressive FIFA World Cup™ qualifying victories over the Czech Republic and Norway, and head a table much changed after the recent Russia 2018 preliminaries.

Belgium, for example, have climbed four places to enter the top five on the back of qualifying for next year’s finals. Portugal, for their part, are up three to third and, further down, no fewer than 23 teams have jumped ten places or more.

Among the most notable climbers are the Cape Verde Islands (67th, up 47), Luxembourg (101st, up 35), Bolivia (46th, up 22) and Denmark (26th, up 20), all 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 (12th, up 3), Northern Ireland (20th, up 3) and Syria (75th, up 5).

The Bolivians, meanwhile, are among five new entries in the top 50, where they are joined by Montenegro (37th, up 15), Bulgaria (38th, up 14), Scotland (43rd, up 15) and Haiti (48th, up 7).

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

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Leader Germany (up 1)
Moves into top 10 none
Moves out of top 10 none
Matches played in total 161
Most matches played 20 teams with 4 games each
Biggest move by points Cape Verde Islands (up 264 points)
Biggest move by ranks Cape Verde Islands (up 47 ranks)
Biggest drop by points Switzerland (down 119 points)
Biggest drop by ranks Guatemala (down 31 ranks)
Newly ranked teams none
Teams that are no longer ranked none
Inactive teams, not ranked none