Vietnam suddenly rose the most places on the FIFA rankings in December: Thanks to the AFF Cup

The Vietnamese team received points

In December, there is no FIFA Days schedule, only in Southeast Asia the AFF Cup (ASEAN Championship) takes place. In particular, the Vietnamese team started well with 2 wins against Laos with a score of 4-1 and Indonesia with a score of 1-0. These matches are added points to the December FIFA rankings. Thanks to that, coach Kim Sang-sik’s team accumulated an additional 3.68 points for a total of 1,164.79 points, increasing 2 levels.

This is the highest number of ranks increased compared to the rest of the world’s teams in December. Thereby, helping the Vietnamese team for the first time experience the taste of being the team with the highest number of ranks increased in one period of the table. FIFA ranking.

However, with the recent 1-1 draw with the Philippines team, the Vietnamese team will be deducted points but it will not be significant, and will be included in the FIFA rankings for February 2025.

Thanks to increasing 2 places to 114th in the world, the Vietnamese team also returned to the top 20 in Asia and ranked 2nd in Southeast Asia after the Thai team. The Thai team also scored 2 wins in the AFF Cup group stage, adding 2.93 points to accumulate a total of 1,231.17 points, still ranked 97th in the world, 15th in Asia.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian team was deducted 1.7 points, leaving a total of 1,133.41 points, falling 2 places to 127th in the world, ranked 23rd in Asia and still ranked 3rd in Southeast Asia. The gap between the Indonesian team and the Vietnamese team has now also widened to 13 places, compared to 9 places on the FIFA rankings updated on November 28.

In the upcoming matches at AFF Cup 2024, if the Vietnamese team wins against the Myanmar team to win tickets to the semi-finals, then progress to the final and win the championship, they will accumulate a significant amount of points above. FIFA rankings and gradually return to the top 100 in the world in 2023.

Among other teams competing in the 2024 AFF Cup, the Malaysian team still holds the 132nd rank in the world. The Philippine team dropped 1 place to 150th, the Singapore team increased 1 place to 160th. The Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Timor Leste teams all did not move up the rankings due to unsuccessful competition.

In the world region, the ranking of teams remains the same with Argentina still ranked No. 1, followed by France, Spain, England and Brazil in the top 5 teams. In Asia, the Japanese team is still ranked No. 1 and 15 in the world.