Despite not losing any points Macedonia went down three places on the first FIFA rankings for 2019. That is because of the recently concluded AFC Asian Cup where many Asian national teams were active and collected points. It is an inactive period for the Macedonian national team, but because of the Asian championship the Lynx
This 2018 year ends successfully for Macedonia. With no changes since the last two rankings, Macedonia will enter 2019 as the 68th best national team in the world. The inactive period brought only few changes on the FIFA ranking list but none affected Macedonia. The Lynx kept the same points from November and stayed on
The two UEFA Nations League wins over Liechtenstein and Gibraltar did not affect the newest ranking list due to the bad ranking of both our opponents so Macedonia stayed at the same place as last month. Macedonia defeated Liechtenstein away with 2:0 and than recorded a 4:0 win over Gibraltar at home. However, because of
Macedonia did not move nor up nor down, even stayed on the same amount of points in the newest ranking list of FIFA. It was expected for Macedonia to lose points and maybe slip a place or two because of the heavy defeat away in Armenia in the Nations League. But the 4:0 humiliation did
Macedonia moved up two places gaining 8 points since the previous rankings. That is thanks to the wins over Gibraltar and Armenia in the Nations League. The small amount of points since the August ranking is due to the wins over national teams that have worse ranking than us with Gibraltar being even one of
FIFA introduced a new formula for calculating the points that brought significantly more points to all national teams. Macedonia now shares the 70th place with Saudi Arabia. As you can see by the rankings below, Macedonia jumped one place but has trice more points than the last rankings. That is thanks to the new formula
The Macedonian national team did not play any matches but still recorded increase in points which resulted into moving up six places on the newest FIFA world ranking list for June. In this pre-World Cup period when all national teams play friendly matches, Macedonia was inactive. The football federation failed to find an opponent after
No changes for the Macedonian national team on the FIFA world ranking list for May. Same place, same points during this inactive period. As only seven international games were played since the previous rankings, there are only minor changes at the table. Macedonia did not play any games nor was affected by other teams’ games.
The two draws in the friendly matches against Finland and Azerbaijan sent Macedonia two places down to find itself on the 77th spot on the newest FIFA world ranking list. We expected a bigger drop having in mind that Macedonia played a draw against the similar ranked team of Finland and far worse ranked Azerbaijan,
The inactive period resulted only in minor changes without effecting the Lynx who end this successful year 2017 as 76th footballing nation in the world having climbed 86 places since last January. The Football federation of Macedonia received an invitation by the United Arab Emirates for a friendly this month, but decided that it is
