| World Football |
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South America | Oceania |
Ranking Table Asia 1970 - 1981.
Extracted from the World Football Ranking Table 1970 - 1981.
(*) within brackets: ranking in the corresponding World Football Ranking Table.
| Rank | (*) | Team | Mat- ches |
Wins | Draws | Los- ses |
Goals Fore |
Goals Against |
Points | Rating Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( 25 ) | Iran | 37 | 26 | 6 | 5 | 70 | 27 | 84 | 74.958 |
| 2 | ( 43 ) | Kuwait | 45 | 27 | 6 | 12 | 76 | 42 | 87 | 61.446 |
| 3 | ( 52 ) | South Korea | 41 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 65 | 33 | 73 | 57.042 |
| 4 | ( 62 ) | North Korea | 27 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 29 | 48 | 53.862 |
| 5 | ( 63 ) | Iraq | 29 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 48 | 23 | 57 | 53.026 |
| 6 | ( 65 ) | China | 27 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 48 | 21 | 49 | 52.545 |
| 7 | ( 72 ) | Syria | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 24 | 29 | 46.673 |
| 8 | ( 85 ) | Saudi Arabia | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 28 | 26 | 40.750 |
| 9 | ( 87 ) | Malaysia | 31 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 47 | 34 | 46 | 39.874 |
| 10 | ( 93 ) | Hong Kong | 35 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 41 | 54 | 39 | 32.024 |
| 11 | ( 94 ) | Thailand | 31 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 54 | 57 | 38 | 31.664 |
| 12 | ( 97 ) | Qatar | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 26 | 30 | 30 | 30.629 |
| 13 | ( 102 ) | Indonesia | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 36 | 55 | 30 | 26.686 |
| 14 | ( 103 ) | Japan | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 26.427 |
| 15 | ( 105 ) | Bahrain | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 21.926 |
| 16 | ( 106 ) | Taiwan | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 19.863 |
| 17 | ( 109 ) | Bangladesh | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 5 | 17.283 |
| 18 | ( 110 ) | Singapore | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 24 | 11 | 15.241 |
| 19 | ( 112 ) | Afghanistan | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 29 | 2 | 3.041 |
| 20 | (.) | Lebanon | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 7 | . |
| 21 | (.) | United Arab Emirates | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | . |
| 22 | (.) | Macao | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 3 | . |
| 23 | (.) | Sri Lanka | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 22 | 3 | . |
| 24 | (.) | South Yemen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | . |
| 25 | (.) | Philippines | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | . |