Recently, FIFA announced the rankings in June 2019 and the Vietnam team continues to make progress in terms of scores and rankings. Specifically, on FIFA Day, the Vietnam national team played 2 matches at the 2019 King's Cup. As a result, Mr. Park Hang Seo's team won against Thailand (1-0), drew with Curacao (1-1) in the two official rounds and lost in penalty shootouts.
This positive result helped the Vietnamese team earn 5.17 points to accumulate on FIFA's social insurance (from 1,227 to 1,232), while increasing by 2 places to 96th in the world and maintaining the No. 1 position in Southeast Asia. This is the highest ranking of the Vietnam National Team on FIFA's rankings in the past 20 years, before that we were in 84th place in 1998.
Currently, Vietnam is far ahead of the second-placed team in Southeast Asia, "only blaming" Thailand for 20 places in FIFA rankings. The "War Elephants" after 2 defeats in the King's Cup, the tournament they organized was deducted 9 points and dropped 2 places, down to 116th in the world. In June, Malaysia was the strongest promoted team in the region, with 23 points, up 9 places to rank 159th in the world.
With the rise to 96th place in the world and 15th place in Asia, the Vietnam team will be in the number 2 seed group when the AFC draw for the second qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup in Asia. This will help Coach Park Hang Seo and his students avoid many tough opponents in the same group such as Iraq, Uzbekistan, Syria, Oman, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan and Jordan. This is an advantage that can help the Vietnamese national team enter the final qualifying round for the first time in a World Cup.
Meanwhile, there were not many changes in the top social insurance. The Belgian team is still "tapping the nail" in the No. 1 position, followed by the reigning world champions France, Brazil and England. Thanks to his UEFA National League championship achievement, Ronaldo's Portuguese Open has been increased by 23.7 points to 1,631 points, thereby promoting him 2 places to 5th in the world. Meanwhile, Iran continues to lead Asia with 1,518 points, ranking 20th in the world.
The three former world champions with successful matches last June also have a certain promotion. Spain rose to 7th place (up 2 places), Germany rose to 11th place (up 2 places) and Italy got 14th place (up 3 places).
