Women's Ranking by Country

This chart shows  Women's Ranking by Country.

The FIFA Women's World Rankings for football were introduced in 2003, with the first rankings published in March of that year, as a follow-on to the existing FIFA World Rankings for men. They attempt to compare the strength of internationally active women's national teams at any given time.

Specifics of the ranking system :

1. FIFA Women's World Rankings are based on every international match a team ever played, dating back to 1971, the first FIFA-recognized women's international between France and the Netherlands.

2. FIFA Women's World Rankings are implicitly weighted to emphasize recent results.

3. FIFA Women's World Rankings are only published four times a year. Normally, rankings are released in March, June, September and December.

In the most recent ranking, there was massive shuffling deep through the rankings due to 150 matches being played since the past ranking, including an incredible number of matches played in March 2016. The 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament provided some of the most movement, with Japan dropping 62 points and three places to their lowest ranking since June 2009, while Australia and China combined for nine places increased, China's 12th rank being their highest sine May 2010 and Australia's 5th rank their highest ever.