World Football Ranking Table 1971 - 1982.

Rank	Team	Mat- ches	Wins	Draws	Los- ses	Goals Fore	Goals Against	Points	Rating Score
1	Germany	58	37	16	5	131	39	127	100.000
2	Brazil	41	26	9	6	85	29	87	96.256
3	Netherlands	62	40	10	12	151	55	130	95.670
4	Poland	55	33	12	10	101	44	111	95.568
5	Italy	55	28	20	7	83	36	104	93.461
6	England	51	31	12	8	103	36	105	92.287
7	Belgium	56	29	14	13	77	48	101	90.824
8	Czechoslovakia	46	24	12	10	90	44	84	89.969
9	Austria	54	30	11	13	106	49	101	88.002
10	Soviet Union	46	24	12	10	72	35	84	87.961
11	Morocco	52	24	15	13	81	51	87	86.481
12	Spain	41	17	14	10	59	38	65	85.956
13	Ghana	36	17	9	10	51	37	60	85.405
14	Yugoslavia	51	25	11	15	93	57	86	85.198
15	Argentina	30	14	5	11	65	35	47	84.963
16	Scotland	47	21	11	15	69	56	74	84.944
17	Egypt	44	23	8	13	77	60	77	84.579
18	Tunisia	39	14	13	12	50	40	55	84.065
19	Nigeria	49	22	14	13	77	57	80	83.844
20	East Germany	41	20	10	11	78	44	70	83.839
21	Guinea	49	21	16	12	76	57	79	83.551
22	Romania	40	16	15	9	66	39	63	82.519
23	France	43	19	9	15	78	54	66	82.171
24	Portugal	41	19	10	12	58	48	67	82.084
25	Peru	33	14	9	10	45	36	51	81.842
26	Democrat. Rep. Congo	47	23	8	16	91	78	77	81.502
27	Algeria	41	18	10	13	63	50	64	81.123
28	Hungary	48	20	14	14	94	63	74	80.286
29	Côte d'Ivoire	32	15	7	10	49	41	52	80.060
30	Wales	37	17	5	15	54	41	56	79.816
31	Cameroon	36	15	10	11	54	38	55	79.792
32	Zambia	54	27	9	18	90	57	90	79.032
33	Mali	19	7	7	5	35	32	28	78.931
34	Uganda	27	12	5	10	43	34	41	77.648
35	Senegal	22	8	6	8	18	21	30	77.381
36	Sweden	47	18	11	18	60	60	65	77.335
37	Libya	19	6	6	7	16	20	24	76.685
38	Northern Ireland	47	17	14	16	50	46	65	76.626
39	Bulgaria	42	16	11	15	61	54	59	75.956
40	Republic of Ireland	36	12	9	15	51	50	45	75.896
41	Chile	31	12	9	10	39	28	45	75.523
42	Iran	37	26	6	5	70	27	84	75.284
43	Congo	35	11	9	15	50	57	42	74.132
44	Sudan	18	5	6	7	20	26	21	73.435
45	Paraguay	25	9	8	8	32	26	35	72.405
46	Togo	29	10	7	12	30	42	37	70.969
47	Colombia	25	9	8	8	24	24	35	70.816
48	Greece	37	11	7	19	47	59	40	68.966
49	Switzerland	38	11	7	20	37	56	40	67.257
50	Ethiopia	27	6	10	11	24	36	28	66.721
51	Turkey	38	11	6	21	28	60	39	65.332
52	Madagascar	10	3	3	4	13	21	12	65.135
53	Uruguay	21	6	8	7	23	25	26	64.957
54	Denmark	37	9	5	23	52	77	32	63.832
55	Mexico	37	20	10	7	69	35	70	63.515
56	Kenya	25	6	6	13	27	42	24	62.534
57	Tanzania	22	4	9	9	30	33	21	62.276
58	Bolivia	24	7	1	16	23	58	22	61.950
59	Norway	38	8	4	26	37	85	28	61.748
60	Kuwait	48	27	7	14	78	48	88	61.489
61	Niger	12	3	3	6	9	21	12	60.940
62	Gambia	10	2	3	5	5	14	9	60.602
63	Israel	18	7	5	6	23	15	26	60.213
64	Finland	39	6	4	29	33	111	22	57.916
65	Australia	38	19	10	9	87	39	67	57.662
66	South Korea	41	20	13	8	65	33	73	57.128
67	Iceland	38	4	5	29	21	97	17	57.019
68	Haiti	36	18	9	9	62	38	63	55.342
69	Albania	21	3	2	16	11	45	11	55.255
70	North Korea	27	14	6	7	40	29	48	53.463
71	Mauritius	23	4	9	10	25	38	21	53.448
72	Honduras	30	11	12	7	43	31	45	53.072
73	Iraq	29	17	6	6	48	23	57	53.039
74	Canada	23	7	10	6	28	27	31	52.801
75	Lesotho	10	2	3	5	9	24	9	52.289
76	Malawi	16	3	4	9	19	31	13	52.010
77	Sierra Leone	16	1	4	11	16	33	7	52.001
78	China	28	15	4	9	49	23	49	50.697
79	Zimbabwe	8	2	1	5	3	10	7	50.630
80	Liberia	8	0	3	5	2	13	3	50.266
81	Ecuador	20	2	5	13	14	39	11	50.046
82	New Zealand	36	16	10	10	85	50	58	49.927
83	Venezuela	16	1	3	12	5	55	6	48.935
84	Tahiti	9	5	2	2	30	13	17	48.490
85	Burkina Faso	13	1	3	9	9	35	6	48.348
86	Malta	34	2	1	31	9	123	7	47.405
87	El Salvador	30	12	8	10	35	39	44	46.510
88	Syria	23	8	5	10	19	24	29	46.224
89	Cyprus	39	1	1	37	12	129	4	46.222
90	Luxembourg	39	1	2	36	16	133	5	44.498
91	Cuba	21	8	8	5	24	20	32	43.839
92	Guatemala	28	9	10	9	40	26	37	42.590
93	U.S. of America	13	2	4	7	13	25	10	42.278
94	Trinidad & Tobago	24	10	7	7	44	31	37	42.171
95	New Caledonia	9	6	0	3	24	18	18	41.835
96	Saudi Arabia	20	8	2	10	24	28	26	40.318
97	Malaysia	31	12	10	9	47	34	46	39.477
98	Costa Rica	20	4	10	6	24	24	22	38.019
99	Hong Kong	35	10	9	16	41	54	39	31.292
100	Thailand	31	11	5	15	54	57	38	31.141
101	Qatar	22	9	3	10	26	30	30	29.941
102	Netherlands Antilles	11	0	5	6	6	30	5	29.191
103	Surinam	20	8	4	8	38	34	28	26.936
104	Indonesia	30	8	6	16	36	55	30	26.426
105	Japan	17	4	3	10	12	15	15	25.628
106	Bahrain	13	4	0	9	13	17	12	21.035
107	Taiwan	12	1	3	8	6	25	6	19.994
108	Vanuatu	8	1	1	6	11	19	4	19.977
109	Fiji	16	3	3	10	19	57	12	19.118
110	Bangladesh	8	1	2	5	9	25	5	16.005
111	Panama	14	1	2	11	10	45	5	15.176
112	Singapore	14	3	2	9	14	24	11	14.187
113	Afghanistan	10	0	2	8	7	29	2	1.676
114	Guyana	10	3	0	7	13	23	9	1.000
.	Somalia	7	2	2	3	4	9	8	.
.	Lebanon	7	2	1	4	6	11	7	.
.	Rwanda	3	2	0	1	2	1	6	.
.	Angola	4	1	3	0	7	3	6	.
.	Mauritania	6	1	2	3	6	12	5	.
.	Mozambique	6	1	1	4	14	15	4	.
.	Papua New Guinea	3	1	0	2	6	22	3	.
.	Benin	4	1	0	3	3	14	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	.
.	Gabon	4	0	2	2	7	12	2	.
.	Grenada	2	0	0	2	4	8	0	.
.	Philippines	3	0	0	3	1	10	0	.
.	Solomon Islands	3	0	0	3	3	21	0	.