World Football Ranking Table 1970 - 1981.

Rank	Team	Mat- ches	Wins	Draws	Los- ses	Goals Fore	Goals Against	Points	Rating Score
1	Brazil	42	28	9	5	89	30	93	100.000
2	Germany	57	39	15	3	137	39	132	98.055
3	Poland	47	30	9	8	89	35	99	92.841
4	Netherlands	61	38	10	13	143	55	124	91.497
5	Italy	54	29	17	8	84	37	104	88.476
6	Argentina	25	12	5	8	57	28	41	88.303
7	England	47	28	9	10	87	37	93	86.403
8	Peru	34	16	7	11	52	39	55	86.225
9	Belgium	53	27	13	13	74	46	94	84.536
10	Spain	35	16	11	8	54	30	59	84.526
11	Czechoslovakia	45	24	9	12	87	44	81	84.193
12	Yugoslavia	47	24	10	13	88	49	82	82.961
13	East Germany	42	22	10	10	84	42	76	82.811
14	Austria	47	25	10	12	91	47	85	82.773
15	Soviet Union	45	24	11	10	72	34	83	82.441
16	Scotland	42	20	10	12	58	43	70	82.106
17	Chile	28	12	9	7	36	20	45	82.101
18	Romania	42	16	15	11	68	43	63	78.011
19	Paraguay	25	9	8	8	32	26	35	77.661
20	Hungary	46	20	13	13	85	58	73	76.762
21	France	37	17	7	13	65	43	58	76.237
22	Portugal	40	18	10	12	55	47	64	76.185
23	Colombia	25	9	8	8	24	24	35	76.110
24	Wales	36	16	5	15	49	37	53	75.312
25	Iran	37	26	6	5	70	27	84	74.958
26	Sweden	49	19	12	18	61	59	69	74.306
27	Bulgaria	44	16	12	16	65	61	60	71.056
28	Northern Ireland	40	15	10	15	44	40	55	70.921
29	Uruguay	27	8	9	10	27	30	33	70.767
30	Republic of Ireland	36	11	9	16	46	50	42	69.054
31	Tunisia	36	14	12	10	49	36	54	66.785
32	Bolivia	24	7	1	16	23	58	22	66.243
33	Egypt	49	26	9	14	87	65	87	64.539
34	Morocco	57	25	16	16	87	60	91	64.504
35	Mexico	41	22	11	8	75	39	77	64.113
36	Switzerland	38	12	7	19	38	54	43	63.797
37	Nigeria	48	21	15	12	74	54	78	63.758
38	Greece	37	10	8	19	46	58	38	63.649
39	Ghana	36	17	8	11	50	36	59	63.587
40	Turkey	38	11	7	20	30	58	40	63.020
41	Mali	19	8	7	4	36	31	31	62.419
42	Democrat. Rep. Congo	52	25	9	18	98	84	84	61.719
43	Kuwait	45	27	6	12	76	42	87	61.446
44	Guinea	52	21	18	13	80	64	81	61.151
45	Cameroon	33	17	4	12	59	42	55	60.087
46	Sudan	23	9	6	8	28	29	33	59.797
47	Israel	21	7	7	7	24	18	28	59.333
48	Algeria	35	15	9	11	56	43	54	58.748
49	Côte d'Ivoire	39	19	7	13	63	51	64	58.722
50	Australia	38	19	10	9	87	39	67	57.206
51	Denmark	38	8	4	26	48	78	28	57.174
52	South Korea	41	20	13	8	65	33	73	57.042
53	Ecuador	20	2	5	13	14	39	11	56.114
54	Senegal	20	7	5	8	17	21	26	55.950
55	Norway	38	7	4	27	35	88	25	55.718
56	Congo	37	12	10	15	52	58	46	55.663
57	Zambia	51	25	10	16	89	56	85	55.591
58	Finland	38	6	5	27	32	108	23	55.514
59	Iceland	34	4	4	26	19	91	16	54.479
60	Venezuela	16	1	3	12	5	55	6	54.217
61	Haiti	36	18	9	9	62	38	63	54.072
62	North Korea	27	14	6	7	40	29	48	53.862
63	Iraq	29	17	6	6	48	23	57	53.026
64	Uganda	27	11	4	12	40	36	37	52.719
65	China	27	15	4	8	48	21	49	52.545
66	Canada	23	7	10	6	28	27	31	52.526
67	Albania	20	3	1	16	12	44	10	52.234
68	Honduras	27	11	10	6	41	28	43	49.824
69	New Zealand	32	15	10	7	81	37	55	48.335
70	Togo	29	9	8	12	28	43	35	47.782
71	Tahiti	9	5	2	2	30	13	17	47.408
72	Syria	23	8	5	10	19	24	29	46.673
73	Libya	14	4	3	7	9	16	15	46.041
74	Kenya	27	8	6	13	30	42	30	45.377
75	El Salvador	30	12	8	10	34	35	44	44.306
76	Malta	34	1	2	31	9	119	5	43.054
77	Cuba	21	8	8	5	24	20	32	42.769
78	U.S. of America	13	2	4	7	13	25	10	42.767
79	Cyprus	38	1	1	36	12	128	4	42.552
80	Luxembourg	38	1	2	35	15	127	5	41.951
81	Madagascar	12	4	3	5	16	26	15	41.713
82	Trinidad & Tobago	24	10	7	7	44	31	37	41.108
83	New Caledonia	9	6	0	3	24	18	18	41.043
84	Guatemala	28	9	10	9	40	26	37	40.849
85	Saudi Arabia	20	8	2	10	24	28	26	40.750
86	Tanzania	22	4	9	9	29	35	21	40.425
87	Malaysia	31	12	10	9	47	34	46	39.874
88	Ethiopia	29	6	9	14	27	47	27	39.710
89	Niger	12	3	2	7	10	24	11	37.266
90	Costa Rica	20	4	10	6	24	24	22	36.194
91	Sierra Leone	14	1	4	9	16	29	7	34.787
92	Mauritius	25	5	9	11	30	41	24	32.616
93	Hong Kong	35	10	9	16	41	54	39	32.024
94	Thailand	31	11	5	15	54	57	38	31.664
95	Gambia	8	1	3	4	3	11	6	31.525
96	Lesotho	10	2	3	5	9	24	9	30.764
97	Qatar	22	9	3	10	26	30	30	30.629
98	Netherlands Antilles	11	0	5	6	6	30	5	28.437
99	Burkina Faso	13	1	3	9	9	35	6	27.750
100	Malawi	14	1	4	9	15	31	7	27.286
101	Liberia	8	0	3	5	2	13	3	26.692
102	Indonesia	30	8	6	16	36	55	30	26.686
103	Japan	17	4	3	10	12	15	15	26.427
104	Surinam	20	8	4	8	38	34	28	26.355
105	Bahrain	13	4	0	9	13	17	12	21.926
106	Taiwan	12	1	3	8	6	25	6	19.863
107	Vanuatu	8	1	1	6	11	19	4	19.693
108	Fiji	16	3	3	10	19	57	12	18.881
109	Bangladesh	8	1	2	5	9	25	5	17.283
110	Singapore	14	3	2	9	14	24	11	15.241
111	Panama	14	1	2	11	10	45	5	13.733
112	Afghanistan	10	0	2	8	7	29	2	3.041
113	Guyana	10	3	0	7	13	23	9	1.000
.	Somalia	6	2	2	2	4	8	8	.
.	Zimbabwe	6	2	1	3	3	6	7	.
.	Lebanon	7	2	1	4	6	11	7	.
.	Mauritania	6	1	2	3	6	12	5	.
.	Mozambique	6	1	1	4	14	15	4	.
.	Benin	6	1	1	4	4	16	4	.
.	Rwanda	2	1	0	1	1	1	3	.
.	Barbados	3	1	0	2	3	5	3	.
.	Papua New Guinea	3	1	0	2	6	22	3	.
.	United Arab Emirates	6	0	3	3	3	9	3	.
.	Macao	6	1	0	5	4	16	3	.
.	Sri Lanka	7	1	0	6	6	22	3	.
.	Angola	2	0	2	0	1	1	2	.
.	Gabon	4	0	1	3	6	9	1	.
.	Jamaica	4	0	1	3	1	6	1	.
.	Grenada	2	0	0	2	4	8	0	.
.	Dominican Republic	2	0	0	2	0	6	0	.
.	South Yemen	2	0	0	2	0	9	0	.
.	Philippines	3	0	0	3	1	10	0	.
.	Solomon Islands	3	0	0	3	3	21	0	.