World Football Ranking Table 1972 - 1983.

Rank	Team	Mat- ches	Wins	Draws	Los- ses	Goals Fore	Goals Against	Points	Rating Score
1	Germany	60	38	16	6	137	42	130	100.000
2	Netherlands	63	41	10	12	147	55	133	98.438
3	Poland	54	32	12	10	96	43	108	96.799
4	Brazil	49	28	13	8	93	34	97	93.949
5	England	50	29	12	9	97	34	99	92.935
6	Belgium	55	28	14	13	74	51	98	92.342
7	Spain	43	20	13	10	69	41	73	90.665
8	Czechoslovakia	47	23	14	10	91	44	83	90.469
9	Italy	57	27	19	11	80	43	100	89.651
10	Soviet Union	46	24	11	11	71	34	83	89.607
11	Yugoslavia	50	25	10	15	95	60	85	87.758
12	Ghana	34	17	8	9	51	36	59	87.501
13	Scotland	45	19	13	13	70	54	70	87.425
14	Portugal	40	20	9	11	56	47	69	86.718
15	East Germany	42	21	10	11	80	43	73	86.133
16	Austria	54	28	11	15	97	55	95	86.076
17	Morocco	54	24	17	13	80	50	89	85.961
18	France	38	17	8	13	71	47	59	85.034
19	Argentina	34	15	8	11	70	39	53	84.838
20	Romania	41	16	16	9	62	39	64	84.231
21	Nigeria	53	23	16	14	79	58	85	83.848
22	Peru	39	16	12	11	52	42	60	83.195
23	Tunisia	43	16	14	13	56	41	62	83.012
24	Egypt	44	22	9	13	74	56	75	82.782
25	Democrat. Rep. Congo	45	22	8	15	87	76	74	82.175
26	Guinea	47	20	14	13	74	57	74	81.858
27	Algeria	45	20	12	13	73	54	72	81.847
28	Wales	36	16	7	13	51	37	55	81.836
29	Sweden	48	21	10	17	70	57	73	81.551
30	Northern Ireland	48	19	13	16	48	47	70	81.349
31	Côte d'Ivoire	30	14	7	9	46	37	49	80.581
32	Republic of Ireland	38	15	9	14	63	43	54	80.365
33	Libya	19	7	6	6	17	19	27	79.982
34	Cameroon	40	17	10	13	63	43	61	78.697
35	Zambia	54	26	10	18	89	55	88	78.244
36	Chile	35	14	10	11	47	30	52	77.494
37	Bulgaria	41	15	11	15	56	53	56	77.389
38	Senegal	24	9	6	9	21	25	33	77.319
39	Hungary	50	19	14	17	101	76	71	77.229
40	Iran	37	26	6	5	70	27	84	77.128
41	Paraguay	27	9	10	8	33	27	37	77.124
42	Mali	19	7	6	6	34	35	27	76.806
43	Uruguay	29	11	10	8	35	31	43	76.268
44	Uganda	29	13	5	11	45	36	44	76.200
45	Sudan	22	7	7	8	24	32	28	75.915
46	Colombia	29	10	10	9	29	29	40	75.295
47	Congo	35	11	9	15	48	56	42	74.114
48	Greece	39	12	9	18	51	60	45	71.271
49	Togo	31	12	6	13	36	44	42	71.001
50	Denmark	40	13	5	22	63	72	44	69.832
51	Switzerland	38	10	8	20	33	58	38	68.539
52	Turkey	40	12	7	21	33	61	43	67.179
53	Kuwait	43	25	5	13	72	44	80	65.955
54	Ethiopia	31	8	10	13	27	41	34	65.691
55	Norway	38	8	5	25	37	78	29	64.460
56	Madagascar	14	4	4	6	16	25	16	62.756
57	Israel	18	7	5	6	23	15	26	62.448
58	Bolivia	28	7	3	18	27	64	24	62.096
59	Tanzania	22	4	9	9	30	33	21	61.616
60	Kenya	23	5	5	13	25	41	20	61.097
61	Niger	12	3	3	6	9	21	12	60.393
62	Gambia	10	2	3	5	5	14	9	60.303
63	Mexico	30	14	9	7	57	34	51	59.945
64	Honduras	23	10	10	3	36	19	40	59.563
65	Finland	38	6	5	27	34	106	23	59.283
66	Iceland	42	5	5	32	22	104	20	58.788
67	Mozambique	8	2	1	5	17	19	7	58.787
68	Australia	38	19	10	9	87	39	67	58.423
69	South Korea	41	20	13	8	65	33	73	58.035
70	Ecuador	24	2	7	15	18	49	13	57.109
71	North Korea	27	14	6	7	40	29	48	55.136
72	Mauritius	23	5	8	10	25	37	23	55.073
73	Malawi	18	4	5	9	21	32	17	54.925
74	Lesotho	10	2	3	5	9	24	9	53.523
75	Haiti	31	16	6	9	53	37	54	53.000
76	China	28	15	4	9	49	23	49	52.464
77	Sierra Leone	16	1	4	11	16	33	7	51.363
78	Zimbabwe	8	2	1	5	3	10	7	51.342
79	Albania	22	2	2	18	11	49	8	50.856
80	Cyprus	40	1	3	36	14	123	6	50.853
81	Iraq	23	12	5	6	34	21	41	50.751
82	Canada	23	7	10	6	28	27	31	50.585
83	New Zealand	36	16	10	10	85	50	58	50.237
84	Venezuela	20	1	4	15	6	65	7	49.311
85	Liberia	8	0	3	5	2	13	3	49.188
86	Tahiti	9	5	2	2	30	13	17	48.759
87	Burkina Faso	13	1	3	9	9	35	6	48.311
88	Malta	35	2	1	32	12	138	7	48.015
89	Syria	20	8	3	9	15	19	27	46.768
90	El Salvador	28	10	8	10	31	37	38	46.090
91	Cuba	14	6	5	3	18	13	23	43.674
92	Guatemala	26	9	9	8	39	24	36	42.683
93	Luxembourg	40	1	1	38	19	140	4	42.083
94	New Caledonia	9	6	0	3	24	18	18	41.983
95	Saudi Arabia	20	8	2	10	24	28	26	40.904
96	Trinidad & Tobago	19	9	5	5	38	19	32	40.617
97	U.S. of America	13	2	4	7	13	25	10	39.156
98	Malaysia	26	8	10	8	32	31	34	38.411
99	Hong Kong	32	10	9	13	38	48	39	35.697
100	Costa Rica	15	2	9	4	18	19	15	34.917
101	Qatar	22	9	3	10	26	30	30	30.412
102	Thailand	26	8	4	14	38	53	28	29.119
103	Netherlands Antilles	11	0	5	6	6	30	5	27.577
104	Japan	17	4	3	10	12	15	15	27.340
105	Surinam	18	6	4	8	31	31	22	24.754
106	Indonesia	25	5	6	14	24	49	21	24.645
107	Bahrain	9	2	0	7	5	13	6	22.622
108	Vanuatu	8	1	1	6	11	19	4	19.747
109	Taiwan	12	1	3	8	6	25	6	19.550
110	Fiji	16	3	3	10	19	57	12	18.655
111	Bangladesh	8	1	2	5	9	25	5	16.316
112	Singapore	14	3	2	9	14	24	11	15.279
113	Panama	14	1	2	11	10	45	5	14.600
114	Afghanistan	10	0	2	8	7	29	2	1.000
.	Angola	6	2	3	1	8	5	9	.
.	Guyana	8	3	0	5	10	16	9	.
.	Somalia	7	2	2	3	4	9	8	.
.	Rwanda	5	2	0	3	2	7	6	.
.	Mauritania	6	1	2	3	6	12	5	.
.	Benin	6	1	1	4	6	21	4	.
.	Papua New Guinea	3	1	0	2	6	22	3	.
.	Sri Lanka	4	1	0	3	5	12	3	.
.	United Arab Emirates	6	0	3	3	3	9	3	.
.	Macao	6	1	0	5	4	16	3	.
.	Gabon	4	0	2	2	7	12	2	.
.	Lebanon	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	.
.	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	.