The Colombian National Team makes the jump in the Fifa ranking: Argentina completes a year as leader

The Colombia selection continue living a sweet moment hand in hand with DT Néstor Lorenzo, who does not know what it is to lose since his arrival in 2022 and has already completed an undefeated 17 games, adding friendlies and games of the qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.

On the last Fifa date, the Selection won two victories that give the group confidence to face the America Cup, tournament in which Colombia is one of the teams called to fight for the title.

The Selection won 1-0 Spain in England after Daniel Muñoz's great goal in the Olympic stadium in London and a few days later beat 3-2 Romania in the Metropolitan of Madrid.

The victories allowed the national team to make the jump in the latest update of the Fifa ranking and are approaching the top-10 of the best teams in the world. Colombia He rose two places, now he is in box 12 with 1,664 points.

Colombia remains the best South American team in the world, only behind Argentina and Brazil, who did not have major changes in the ranking.

Argentina completes a year in the lead

Fifa published its latest classification this Thursday after playing 174 national team matches in the last international period, including the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, those for the final phase of the Concacaf Nations League and friendlies in the six confederations on the occasion of the Fifa Series 2024. Lionel Scaloni's Argentine team remains at the top of the classification and completed a year at the top of the list.

Argentina extends its lead in the classification, where the teams occupying the top ten positions do not change, with the variations of Belgium's rise to third place at the expense of England.

Brazil closes the top five and after this Portugal climbs one place (6th) to the detriment of the Netherlands (7th). The United States (11th), like Colombia, also rose two places and Mexico improves one (14th) to overtake Uruguay, which falls four (15th).

Classification

.1. Argentina 1,858 points

.2. France 1,840 points

.3. Belgium 1,795 points

.4. England 1,794 points

.5. Brazil 1,788 points

.6. Portugal 1,748 points

.7. Netherlands 1,742 points

.8. Spain 1,727 points

.9. Italy 1,724 points

10. Croatia 1,721 points

12. Colombia 1,664 points

14. Mexico 1,661 points

15. Uruguay 1,659. points