How many points did the Vietnamese team accumulate thanks to their achievements in the AFF Cup?
After the first 2 matches in the AFF Cup group stage, with 2 victories against Laos with a score of 4-1 and Indonesia with a score of 1-0, the Vietnamese team was added 3.68 points. This number of points is accumulated on the official FIFA rankings announced on December 19 at the end of 2024, with the Vietnamese team being the team that increased the most (2 places) to 114th in the world.
Thanks to the successful AFF Cup 2024 campaign, the Vietnamese team has risen again on the FIFA rankings.
The Vietnamese team’s performance at the AFF Cup 2024 only stagnated and was deducted 0.56 points because of the 1-1 draw with the Philippines team on December 18 away from home.
After that, coach Kim Sang-sik and his team, with the participation of striker Nguyen Xuan Son, the best player of the tournament and top scorer, won a total of 5 matches in a row.
Including 1 final group match against Myanmar team with a score of 5-0, two semi-final matches against Singapore team with scores of 2-0 and 3-1. In particular, in the final, the Vietnamese team consecutively beat the Thai team in both matches with scores of 2-1 and 3-2.
This achievement not only helps the Vietnamese team deserve to win the AFF Cup for the third time in history, but also officially marks the return to the top of the FIFA rankings after nearly a year of continuously falling. class.
Specifically, the journey of winning 5 matches since the draw with the Philippines team has helped the Vietnamese team accumulate up to 10.22 points after the 3.68 points previously added, for a total of 1,175. 01 point and will definitely increase 2 more places to 112th in the world.
This new position of the Vietnamese team will be officially updated on the FIFA rankings on February 15. This also means that, if calculated from the lowest falling position in 2024, the Vietnamese team is 119th from the position in the top 100 at the end of 2023.
Now, thanks to the successful AFF Cup 2024 campaign, coach Kim Sang-sik and his team have gradually climbed back up the rankings and are currently ranked 112th in the world. Therefore, they can completely approach returning to the top 100 as quickly as possible, if they continue to compete successfully in the 2027 Asian Cup qualifiers in March (meeting the Lao team on March 25 at home).
Meanwhile, the Thai team after the group stage was deducted 3.51 points, dropping 1 place to 97th in the world. Next, with the loss to the Philippines team with a score of 1-2 (semi-final first leg), and the two final matches lost to the Vietnamese team, “War Elephants” were deducted another 6.05 points and continued to fall. relegated to 98th in the world.
The current position of the Thai team, in the near future, could completely be usurped by the Palestinian team (position 101) due to the very tight accumulated points (1,225.12 points versus 1,215.87 points, respectively). . Thereby, it will push this team out of the top 100 in the world after only a short time returning in 2024.
