Qatar jump six spots in FIFA rankings

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Friday, February 5th 2016 07:09 PM

ZURICH: Qatar have jumped six spots to be ranked 78, according to latest FIFA rankings released by the football governing body. Coached by Daniel Carreno, Qatar have accumulated a tally of 444 points. In Asia, Qatar are ranked 8 behind Iran (FIFA ranking 44), Korea Republic (53), Saudi Arabia (55), Japan (58), the United Arab Emirates (65), Australia (68) and Uzbekistan (71). Jordan (82), Iraq (89), China PR (93), Korea DPR (95), Oman (97) and Kyrgyzstan (105) are below Qatar in world and Asian rankings. Meanwhile, Belgium has kept the No. 1 spot in the FIFA rankings among an unchanged top 18 for February. With no international matches played by the 20 best teams so far this year, Belgium still leads second-place Argentina and third-place Spain. World Cup champion Germany is No. 4, followed by Chile and Brazil in a top 10 dominated by European and South American teams. The three teams which made the biggest moves since the last rankings all come from Asia: Palestine at No. 110 (up 21 spots), Saudi Arabia at No. 55 (up 20 spots), and North Korea at No. 95 (up 18 spots). Canada moved up three spots to No. 85 out of the 204 nations in the ranking.