FIFA Women's World Ranking
The FIFA Women's World Ranking is a ranking system for women's national teams in association football published by the international governing body FIFA. As of August 2025, the Spain national team is ranked number one.
The rankings were introduced in 2003, with the first rankings published on 16 July of that year. FIFA attempts to assess the strength of internationally active women's national teams at any given time based on their past game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest., the ranking has 196 national teams.
The ranking has more than informative value, as it is often used to seed member associations into different pots in international tournaments.
Specifics of the ranking system
- FIFA Women's World Rankings are based on every international match a team ever played, dating back to 1971, the first FIFA-recognized women's international between France and the Netherlands.
- FIFA Women's World Rankings are implicitly weighted to emphasize recent results.
- FIFA Women's World Rankings are only published four times a year. Normally, rankings are released in March, June, September and December.
Ranking calculations
The rankings are based on the following formulae:Where
The average points of all teams are about 1,300 points. The top nations usually exceed 2,000 points. In order to be ranked, a team must have played at least more than 5 matches against officially ranked teams, and have not been inactive for the last 48 months up to the date the rankings are published. Even if teams are not officially ranked, their points rating is kept constant until they play their next match.
Actual result of the match
The main component of the actual result is whether the team wins, loses, or draws, but goal difference is also taken into account.If the match results in a winner and loser, the loser is awarded a percentage given by the accompanying table, with the result always less than or equal to 20%. The result is based on the goal difference and the number of goals they scored. The remaining percentage points are awarded to the winner. For example, a 2–1 match has the result awarded 84%–16% respectively, a 4–3 match has the result awarded 82%–18%, and an 5–3 match has the result awarded 96.2%–3.8%. As such, it is possible for a team to lose points even if they win a match, assuming they did not "win by enough".
If the match ends in a draw the teams are awarded the same result, but the number depends on the goals scored so the results will not necessarily add up to 100%. For example, a 0–0 draw earns both teams 47% each, a 1–1 draw earns 50% each, and a 4–4 draw earns 52.5% each.
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Neutral ground or home field advantage
Historically, home teams earn 66% of the points available to them, with away teams earning the other 34%. To account for this, when two teams are not playing on neutral ground, the home team has its inflated by 100 points for the purposes of calculation. That is, if two equally ranked teams playing at one team's home ground, the home team would be expected to win at the same rate a team playing on neutral ground with a 100-point advantage. This 100-point difference corresponds to a 64%–36% advantage in terms of expected result. The scaling factor remains the same.Ranking schedule
Rankings are generally published four times a year. The next update is scheduled for 23 April 2026.Leaders
As of the 7 August 2025 rankings release, Spain is the number one ranked team.The United States holds the record for the longest consecutive period leading the rankings of nearly 7 years, from March 2008 to December 2014.
Before the 2023 World Cup, the United States and Germany had been the only two teams to lead the women's rankings, and these two teams also had held the top two spots in all but six releases, when Germany was ranked third.
| No. | Team | Confederation | Days at No. 1 |
| 1 | CONCACAF | 6,070 days | |
| 2 | UEFA | 1,701 days | |
| 3 | UEFA | days | |
| 4 | UEFA | 112 days |