After World cup end world ranking as well changed according teams performance during world cup matched. Spain and Netherlands as expected spotted top of the rank after finished the campaign until reached final match. Prior to that Spain was second rank and jump to first rank after the games end as well as Netherlands mover 2 step to spot second rank.
However Brazil was first rank prior to the tournament drop to third rank after lost to Netherlands in Quarter finals. Germany as well raise to fifth rank after finished the campaign in third place. It had scored 16 goals during the campaign and it was the highest team scored most.
New Zealand, South Africa, Paraguay, Japan and Uruguay were the most mover step in world ranking after raise 24, 17, 15, 13 and 10 steps respectively. Although the most successful team beside the champions was Uruguay when finished fourth place. It was the major victory since 1970 when also finished fourth place.
The worst movers after the game end were Cameroon, France and Nigeria with drop of 21, 12 and 9 step respectively. Cameroon had lost all matches and finished bottom of the group. It was the worst record they had finished ever since 1982.
Italy former 2006 champions also had been punished with their bad performance when lost 202 point in world ranking table. The point makes them drop 6 steps from fifth rank to eleven ranks. It was the worst record in their history since 1974 and they also finished this edition without won any games for first time ever.
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| After WC | Before WC | +/- movers |
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1 | Spain | 1 | 2 | 1 | Final |
2 | Netherlands | 2 | 4 | 2 | Final |
3 | Brazil | 3 | 1 | -2 | Qfinal |
4 | Germany | 4 | 6 | 2 | Sfinal |
5 | Argentina | 5 | 7 | 2 | Qfinal |
6 | Uruguay | 6 | 16 | 10 | Sfinal |
7 | England | 7 | 8 | 1 | Round16 |
8 | Portugal | 8 | 3 | -5 | Round16 |
9 | Chile | 10 | 18 | 8 | Round16 |
10 | Italy | 11 | 5 | -6 | Group |
11 | Greece | 12 | 13 | 1 | Group |
12 | USA | 13 | 14 | 1 | Round16 |
13 | Serbia | 13 | 15 | 2 | Group |
14 | Paraguay | 16 | 31 | 15 | Qfinal |
15 | Switzerland | 18 | 24 | 6 | Group |
16 | Slovenia | 19 | 25 | 6 | Round16 |
17 | Australia | 20 | 20 | 0 | Group |
18 | France | 21 | 9 | -12 | Group |
19 | Ghana | 23 | 32 | 9 | Qfinal |
20 | Mexico | 24 | 17 | -7 | Round16 |
21 | Côte d'Ivoire | 26 | 27 | 1 | Group |
22 | Slovakia | 27 | 34 | 7 | Group |
23 | Denmark | 29 | 36 | 7 | Group |
24 | Nigeria | 30 | 21 | -9 | Group |
25 | Japan | 32 | 45 | 13 | Round16 |
26 | Algeria | 33 | 30 | -3 | Group |
27 | Cameroon | 40 | 19 | -21 | Group |
28 | Korea Republic | 44 | 47 | 3 | Round16 |
29 | Honduras | 46 | 38 | -8 | Group |
30 | New Zealand | 54 | 78 | 24 | Group |
31 | South Africa | 66 | 83 | 17 | Group |
32 | Korea DPR | 103 | 105 | 2 | Group |