World Football Ranking Table 1977 - 1988.

Rank	Team	Mat- ches	Wins	Draws	Los- ses	Goals Fore	Goals Against	Points	Rating Score
1	Brazil	47	27	14	6	92	33	95	100.000
2	Argentina	37	20	8	9	66	36	68	95.508
3	Netherlands	62	40	10	12	125	45	130	94.978
4	Germany	63	36	17	10	135	48	125	93.974
5	England	58	34	14	10	125	33	116	93.124
6	Italy	54	27	16	11	78	46	97	91.283
7	Soviet Union	56	30	16	10	99	40	106	90.739
8	Spain	55	30	10	15	95	53	100	90.246
9	Poland	54	27	14	13	79	54	95	89.142
10	Chile	36	18	8	10	61	34	62	89.140
11	Uruguay	30	13	10	7	37	32	49	89.112
12	Algeria	65	30	21	14	104	61	111	88.972
13	France	57	30	11	16	106	59	101	87.665
14	Cameroon	47	22	14	11	75	43	80	87.159
15	Paraguay	33	10	14	9	38	34	44	86.859
16	Peru	37	12	15	10	47	42	51	86.333
17	Belgium	63	28	17	18	89	73	101	85.952
18	Morocco	53	21	18	14	63	36	81	85.304
19	Romania	45	20	13	12	63	39	73	84.713
20	Austria	54	27	10	17	88	60	91	84.398
21	Portugal	49	24	9	16	63	57	81	84.007
22	Nigeria	57	23	19	15	76	49	88	83.701
23	Senegal	29	13	8	8	27	17	47	83.650
24	Yugoslavia	46	24	7	15	86	63	79	83.566
25	East Germany	41	22	7	12	80	43	73	83.487
26	Egypt	44	19	12	13	51	44	69	83.345
27	Côte d'Ivoire	36	17	9	10	59	36	60	83.142
28	Libya	27	12	7	8	31	26	43	83.043
29	Ghana	33	12	13	8	33	28	49	82.972
30	Colombia	28	9	9	10	31	35	36	82.589
31	Tunisia	46	18	12	16	60	44	66	82.542
32	Czechoslovakia	48	20	16	12	76	48	76	82.289
33	Hungary	52	25	7	20	99	79	82	81.897
34	Denmark	54	24	9	21	92	70	81	81.782
35	Zambia	39	16	8	15	45	30	56	81.114
36	Republic of Ireland	48	18	14	16	65	50	68	80.459
37	Scotland	51	20	15	16	71	56	75	80.337
38	Uganda	23	12	3	8	34	32	39	79.909
39	Guinea	36	15	8	13	45	48	53	79.666
40	Mali	14	7	2	5	20	22	23	79.310
41	Northern Ireland	54	21	13	20	47	57	76	79.137
42	Democrat. Rep. Congo	27	10	10	7	44	38	40	79.073
43	Sweden	45	19	10	16	62	47	67	79.043
44	Sudan	18	5	7	6	12	23	22	78.088
45	Angola	18	7	6	5	19	15	27	77.708
46	Wales	37	15	9	13	49	38	54	77.030
47	Bulgaria	47	18	10	19	56	57	64	76.684
48	Mexico	22	10	7	5	42	27	37	74.939
49	Greece	44	15	9	20	51	66	54	74.928
50	Bolivia	26	6	6	14	25	53	24	74.614
51	Switzerland	42	11	14	17	43	62	47	73.770
52	Zimbabwe	20	8	5	7	24	22	29	71.595
53	Togo	25	8	4	13	24	38	28	70.851
54	Ecuador	22	2	6	14	16	46	12	69.574
55	Mauritania	8	2	2	4	10	17	8	68.941
56	Kenya	25	6	6	13	23	46	24	67.540
57	Congo	23	6	6	11	33	39	24	67.439
58	Ethiopia	22	6	7	9	22	31	25	67.430
59	Tanzania	22	4	9	9	30	31	21	66.697
60	Malawi	26	7	7	12	29	33	28	66.638
61	Gambia	14	4	3	7	12	21	15	66.441
62	Honduras	28	13	11	4	41	19	50	66.002
63	Sierra Leone	18	4	4	10	16	30	16	65.796
64	Finland	39	8	7	24	32	93	31	65.470
65	Canada	27	10	10	7	31	29	40	65.358
66	Benin	8	1	2	5	7	20	5	64.591
67	Madagascar	18	5	4	9	18	31	19	64.513
68	Norway	43	7	10	26	35	70	31	64.311
69	Iran	41	23	13	5	74	27	82	64.236
70	Mozambique	19	4	5	10	28	35	17	62.655
71	Kuwait	48	26	11	11	82	37	89	61.946
72	El Salvador	28	14	6	8	42	30	48	61.587
73	Iceland	45	7	7	31	27	93	28	61.097
74	South Korea	52	30	13	9	95	39	103	61.005
75	Gabon	10	2	3	5	12	17	9	60.920
76	Israel	18	6	5	7	28	19	23	60.693
77	Venezuela	24	1	5	18	11	62	8	60.501
78	Turkey	43	8	6	29	28	92	30	60.085
79	Liberia	16	2	5	9	9	25	11	59.978
80	Burkina Faso	11	2	1	8	7	28	7	59.376
81	New Zealand	33	17	7	9	88	42	58	58.459
82	Saudi Arabia	30	14	8	8	40	26	50	57.613
83	Iraq	17	10	1	6	32	17	31	57.229
84	U.S. of America	12	5	4	3	17	12	19	57.152
85	Australia	34	19	7	8	91	30	64	56.882
86	Guatemala	21	8	6	7	30	19	30	56.534
87	Albania	30	2	4	24	17	65	10	54.385
88	Mauritius	17	5	3	9	15	25	18	54.320
89	Costa Rica	17	4	10	3	19	17	22	53.789
90	Cyprus	42	0	5	37	18	126	5	52.363
91	China	46	26	9	11	99	27	87	51.454
92	Malta	40	1	5	34	21	146	8	50.522
93	North Korea	24	13	5	6	34	24	44	48.811
94	Cuba	11	4	4	3	12	10	16	48.459
95	Syria	37	17	7	13	37	34	58	47.632
96	Haiti	20	6	4	10	17	28	22	46.814
97	Luxembourg	45	0	2	43	13	144	2	46.486
98	Qatar	34	17	4	13	63	35	55	46.122
99	United Arab Emirates	27	12	5	10	49	28	41	45.024
100	Japan	24	9	4	11	25	21	31	41.050
101	Trinidad & Tobago	12	3	5	4	9	10	14	40.230
102	Fiji	14	4	3	7	19	49	15	39.900
103	Malaysia	28	9	10	9	43	34	37	38.119
104	Bahrain	20	5	5	10	18	22	20	36.074
105	Jordan	12	3	4	5	12	18	13	35.040
106	Netherlands Antilles	10	2	4	4	5	13	10	32.545
107	Hong Kong	39	11	10	18	49	57	43	31.300
108	Indonesia	31	11	5	15	31	50	38	30.584
109	Surinam	15	3	3	9	15	30	12	29.762
110	Panama	12	0	2	10	4	31	2	28.116
111	Thailand	29	10	5	14	42	55	35	26.702
112	India	19	5	6	8	16	21	21	26.349
113	Taiwan	20	1	3	16	8	69	6	25.214
114	Singapore	19	3	4	12	12	36	13	20.053
115	Sri Lanka	8	2	1	5	11	23	7	17.265
116	Bangladesh	24	4	5	15	21	57	17	17.012
117	North Yemen	13	1	3	9	8	34	6	16.941
118	Nepal	12	0	2	10	0	48	2	15.447
119	Macao	12	3	0	9	8	31	9	11.787
120	Pakistan	8	1	0	7	5	26	3	11.470
121	Afghanistan	8	0	2	6	5	31	2	7.922
122	Guyana	10	2	1	7	9	20	7	3.976
123	Philippines	8	0	0	8	4	26	0	1.000
.	Jamaica	4	2	1	1	4	6	7	.
.	Rwanda	5	2	0	3	2	7	6	.
.	Somalia	7	1	3	3	2	8	6	.
.	Oman	4	1	1	2	9	15	4	.
.	Seychelles	2	1	0	1	1	3	3	.
.	Antigua & Barbuda	4	1	0	3	3	9	3	.
.	Swaziland	4	0	2	2	3	10	2	.
.	South Yemen	5	0	2	3	5	11	2	.
.	Equatorial Guinea	2	0	1	1	1	4	1	.
.	Lebanon	6	0	1	5	0	28	1	.
.	Central African Rep.	2	0	0	2	2	7	0	.
.	Puerto Rico	4	0	0	4	1	11	0	.
.	Brunei	6	0	0	6	2	29	0	.