Canadian soccer men reach all-time high at 30 in FIFA world rankings

Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 03, 2025 11:28 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Canada climbed 1 spot to an all-time champion No. 30 successful the latest FIFA rankings released Thursday.

The Canadian men had reached their erstwhile precocious successful November aft climbing 4 places to No. 31. They were unchanged successful the end-of-year December list.

Canada had antecedently been arsenic precocious arsenic No. 33, achieved successful February 2022 nether erstwhile caput manager John Herdman aft turning heads with an unbeaten tally successful CONCACAF World Cup qualifying and being named the "Most Improved Side" successful 2021 by FIFA.

Canada's lowest ranking was No. 122 successful October 2014.

The latest determination up comes successful the aftermath of past month's 2-1 triumph implicit the U.S. and 2-0 nonaccomplishment to Mexico successful CONCACAF Nations League Finals play.

The Canadian men started 2024 successful 48th place, falling to No. 50 successful February, and were ranked 49th successful the satellite erstwhile Jesse Marsch took implicit arsenic manager successful mid-May. Since then, the squad has been connected a dependable ascent to No. 48, 40, 38, 35, 31 and present 30.

Canada's adjacent games are against No. 25 Ukraine and No. 41 Ivory Coast astatine the Canadian Shield Tournament successful June.

The U.S. remains unchanged astatine No. 16 to apical CONCACAF teams with Mexico, up 2 places, astatine No. 17. Panama, which bushed the U.S. successful the CONCACAF Nations League semifinal, is 4th successful the portion astatine No. 33 aft rising 3 places.

Argentina remains No. 1 wide aft victories implicit No. 5 Brazil and No. 13 Uruguay, with Spain leapfrogging France to instrumentality implicit astatine No. 2. The French, who mislaid 2-0 to Croatia earlier rallying to triumph their UEFA Nations League quarterfinal successful a punishment shootout, are No. 3 followed by England and Brazil.

The Dutch overtake Portugal to determination into No. 6 with Belgium, Italy and Germany completing the apical 10.

No. 11 Croatia and No. 12 Morocco, some up 2 places, are conscionable extracurricular the apical 10.

Other countries moving up were Norway (No. 38, up five), Czechia (No. 39, up three) and the Ivory Coast (No. 41, up five). Paraguay (No. 48, up five) and Tunisia (No. 49, up three) returned to the apical 50.

Myanmar (No. 162, up seven) was the biggest climber, jumping 7 spots to No. 162. Guinea-Bissau suffered the biggest drop, down 8 places to No. 128.

A full of 245 internationals person been played since the December rankings. Teams from Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America were progressive successful World Cup qualifying portion CONCACAF and UEFA sides took portion successful Nations League competitions and friendlies.