Kenya Football .:. Story - Kenya At 105 In Fifa Rankings

Kenya has gone down one spot to Position 105 in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings released just now.

Kenya dropped that one position but lost 12 points to bag a total of 292 points.

Spain regain leadership from Brazil

The leadership of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking has changed hands following the completion of the preliminary competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup(tm), with European champions Spain overtaking Brazil, who had been at the top since July.

Portugal (5th, up 5) and France (7th, up 2) have benefited greatly from the results of the World Cup play-off matches, which are valuable in terms of points, while the teams that qualified in October, Argentina (8th, down 2) and England (9th, down 2), have lost ground.

This month's winners also include Cameroon (11th, up 3), Greece (12th, up 4) and Uruguay (19th, up 6), the last two also thanks to a massive gain in points from the play-off matches. Of the top 20, only Croatia (10th, down 2) and Russia (13th, down 1) will not be taking part in the finals in South Africa and only four of the qualified teams do not feature among the top 50 (Korea Republic, New Zealand, Korea DPR and South Africa).

Togo (70th, up 10), Mozambique (72nd, up 12), Zimbabwe (108th, up 23), Swaziland (138th, up 10) and Comoros (178th, up 21) can also be proud of their recent haul of points. Côte d'Ivoire (16th, up 3), Algeria (28th, up 1), Latvia (45th, up 2), Burkina Faso (49th, up 6), Benin (59th, up 8), Montenegro (73th, up 2) have also reached their highest ever position since the world ranking was introduced in 1993.

A total of 104 "A" international matches have been played since the October edition of the ranking, taking the number of matches evaluated in the ranking this year to 805. In all, 22 matches, including 12 play-off matches, were held to bring down the curtain on the preliminary competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup(tm) and 13
qualifiers for the next AFC Asian Cup.

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Leader Spain
(1st, up 1)
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Moves into top ten none
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Moves out of top ten none
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Matches played in total 104
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Most matches played Kuwait, Singapore
(five each)
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Biggest move by points Portugal (up 139
points)
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Biggest move by ranks Zimbabwe (up 23)
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Biggest drop by points Barbados, Fiji
(down 117 points each)
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Biggest drop by ranks Suriname (down 29)
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Newly ranked teams none
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Teams that are no longer ranked none
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Inactive teams (not ranked) São Tomé e Principe

The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on 16 December 2009.