Madagascar causes Vietnam fall in FIFA rankings

In the fourth match of Madagascar in CAN 2019, Madagascar's team defeated African giant Nigeria 2-0. This historic victory helped the island nation become Group winner with 7 points after 3 matches.

The impressive performance in CAN 2019 also helped Madagascar to make a big jump in FIFA rankings. According to Football Ranking, they won 13.65 points after a 1-0 win over Burundi and 22.49 points when beating Nigeria. In total after 4 matches, Madagascar received another 40.7 points.

With scores added from CAN 2019, Madagascar scores 1,238.7, advancing 12 places from 108th to 96th in the world. This makes Vietnam national team fall to 97th 2 days after returning to the ranking of history.

On the FIFA table in 6/2019, Vietnam ranked 96 in the world and 15 in Asia. This is the best achievement of the Vietnam for the past 20 years. In the past, Vietnam team has risen to the 84th in the world after Tiger Cup 1998. However, the results of Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago in CONCACAF Gold Cup 2019 have made the 'Golden Dragon’ position continuously fluctuates.

Recently, Haiti has continued to create history when beating host Canada with the score 3-2 at the CONCACAF Cup semi-final. This victory helped them to receive 21.72 points, thereby jumping 19 places to 82 in the world.

Although the rankings in the FIFA rankings are constantly changing, Vietnam still maintains its position among the top 15 strongest teams in Asia. This helps the army of Park Hang Seo pooled in the No. 2 seed group at the 2022 World Cup qualifier kicking off on July 17 in Malaysia.