Macedonia begins the new year at number 84, or one place lower then last month, as the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings were released today.

Macedonia has 425 points, the same as they had last month, but other teams slightly improved, thus leading to the one-place fall on the rankings.

There were no matches for the national team during the prior month. In fact, Macedonia’s next match is not until March – a friendly against Latvia on the 5th. That would also mark Boshko Gjurovski’s debut as the new manager of the national team.

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79.  Oman 440
79.  Haiti 440
81.  Congo DR 439
81.  Jamaica 439
83.  Belarus 431
84.  Macedonia 425
85.  Congo 421
85.  Gabon 421
87.  Uganda 413
88.  El Salvador 395
89. Angola 384

Top 10 in FIFA World Rankings for January 2014:

1.  Spain 1507
2.  Germany 1318
3.  Argentina 1251
4.  Colombia 1200
5.  Portugal 1172
6.  Uruguay 1132
7.  Italy 1120
8.  Switzerland 1113
9.  Netherlands 1106
10.  Brazil 1102

FIFA Rankings for the Balkan countries (actual rankings in brackets):

1. (12.)  Greece 1055
2. (16.)  Croatia 971
3. (19.)  Bosnia-Herzegovina 899
4. (29.)  Slovenia 762
5. (30.)  Serbia 752
6. (33.)  Romania 734
7. (45.)  Turkey 677
8. (52.)  Montenegro 594
9. (56.)  Albania 571
10. (74.)  Bulgaria 486
11. (84.)  Macedonia 425

FIFA Rankings for the UEFA members (actual rankings in brackets):

33. (66.)    Finland 539
34. (67.)    Ireland 528
35. (74.)    Bulgaria 486
36. (77.)    Poland 461
37. (83.)    Belarus 431
38. (84.)    Macedonia 425
39. (90.)    Northern Ireland 381
40. (93.)    Estonia 366
41. (94.)    Azerbaijan 363
42. (96.)    Moldova 359
43. (102.)    Georgia 330

The next ranking will be published on the 13th of February.