Macedonia dropped two places to start the new year as the 138th best national team on the FIFA World Rankings.

New year means a new beginning. But the effects of the disastrous 2015 are still (and will be) haunting Macedonia even though we have now entered 2016. This is a period of inactivity for Macedonia and will stay like this until the friendlies in the end of March. Macedonia did not gain or lose points since the last rankings and the move down is caused by the climbing of other teams who were active.

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133. Swaziland 265
133. Namibia 265
135. Philippines 264
136. Cuba 259
136. Hong Kong 259
138. Macedonia 257
139. South Sudan 246
140. Lebanon 245
141. Kuwait 242
142. Luxembourg 237
143. St. Vincent and the Grenadines 221
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Top 10 in the FIFA World Rankings for January 2016:

1. Belgium 1494
2. Argentina 1455
3. Spain 1370
4. Germany 1347
5. Chile 1269
6. Brazil 1251
7. Portugal 1219
8. Colombia 1211
9. England 1106
10. Austria 1091

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

1. (16.) Romania 980
2. (18.) Croatia 958
3. (21.) Turkey 933
4. (22.) Bosnia and Herzegovina 905
5. (38.) Albania 746
6. (41.) Greece 706
7. (55.) Serbia 590
8. (61.) Slovenia 565
9. (72.) Bulgaria 494
10. (85.) Montenegro 403
11. (138.) Macedonia 257

FIFA Rankings for UEFA members (actual ranking in brackets, showing only the bottom 10):

44. (121.) Armenia 285
45. (127.) Lithuania 274
46. (132.) Kazakhstan 266
47. (138.) Macedonia 257
48. (142.) Luxembourg 237
49. (154.) Moldova 172
50. (162.) Malta 143
51. (165.) Liechtenstein 135
52. (198.) San Marino 28
53. (201.) Andorra 6

FIFA Rankings for members of Group G in 2018 World Cup qualifying (actual ranking in brackets):

1. (3.) Spain 1370
2. (15.) Italy 991
3. (38.) Albania 746
4. (71.) Israel 498
5. (138.) Macedonia 257
6. (165.) Liechtenstein 135

The next rankings will be published on 4th February of 2016.