BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC—Jamaica will enter the Copa América match beginning on Thursday, figuring out they’re the highest-ranked Caribbean Soccer Union (CFU) workforce on the planet rankings after the most recent version was launched on Thursday by the game’s world governing physique, Fifa.
The Jamaicans are ranked 53rd within the newest world rankings from the game’s apex physique, conserving them the sixth-highest-ranked workforce within the Concacaf area and one in every of 4 CFU groups contained in the world’s prime 100.
In accordance with Fifa, there was no scarcity of worldwide matches because the earlier version of the world rankings in April.
No fewer than 187 nationwide workforce matches have been contested Between the Asian Soccer Confederation, Confederation of African Soccer, and Concacaf qualifiers for the 20226 Fifa World Cup.
As well as, warm-up matches forward of the Copa América match, EURO 2024, and the Oceania Soccer Confederation Nations Cup have thrown up a collection of modifications within the newest standings.
Because the Jamaicans are recognized, the Reggae Boyz performed solely two matches throughout the interval, successful each within the World Cup qualifiers.
They beat North Caribbean neighbors, the Dominican Republic, on June 6 on house soil on the Nationwide Stadium in Kingston. Nonetheless, they needed to work more durable to beat hosts Dominica 3-2 on June 9 at Windsor Park in Roseau.
Haiti ranked 86th on the planet (ninth in Concacaf), Curaçao 87th on the worldwide stage (tenth in Concacaf), and T&T 99th on the planet (eleventh in Concacaf) stay the opposite three groups within the Fifa prime 100 from the CFU. Suriname, ranked 141st on the planet, has displaced Antigua & Barbuda because the fifth-highest-ranked CFU workforce and 14th in Concacaf.
The Antiguans endured the largest plunge in rankings amongst CFU and Concacaf groups. They’re now ranked 148th on the planet and fifteenth in Concacaf.
They’re seventh within the CFU rankings behind St Kitts & Nevis, 146th worldwide (14th in Concacaf). Nonetheless, they’re in entrance of the Dominican Republic, which is a hundred and fiftieth on the worldwide stage (sixteenth in Concacaf), Guyana, which is 153rd (seventeenth in Concacaf), and Puerto Rico, which is 156th (18th in Concacaf) to spherical out the CFU prime 10.
St Lucia, holding a world rating of 168th (down two locations), is ranked eleventh within the CFU and nineteenth in Concacaf, whereas Cuba, with a world rating of 169th (unchanged), is ranked twelfth within the CFU and twentieth in Concacaf.
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