Qatar slip to 96 on FIFA rankings

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Saturday, September 20th 2014 06:19 AM

DOHA: Qatar slipped to 96, a drop of four spots according to the latest FIFA world rankings released by the game's governing body in September. Qatar, also known as 'Al Anabi', have accumulated 342 points. The previous month Qatar were ranked 92 in the world. At the Asian level, Qatar are ranked 11 behind Iran, Japan, Korea, Jordan, the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Iraq. China is one spot below Qatar in the Asian rankings. Palestine, Bahrain and Lebanon complete the top-15 Asian teams. Overall the FIFA rankings continued to make dismal reading for Asia with only Iran and Japan in the top 50 of September's list. Iran, Asia's top-ranked team were a modest 44th, while Japan were four places below them. They were followed by Uzbekistan in 58th and South Korea a further five places adrift. World champions Germany stayed top of the table, followed by World Cup runners up Argentina with Colombia in third and Netherlands fourth. Albania jumped 25 places to 46th after their shock 1-0 win away to Portugal in the Euro 2016 qualifiers. Portugal stayed 11th despite the defeat which cost Paulo Bento his job.