ZÜRICH, Switzerland, CMC – Jamaica girls’s nationwide staff will finish the yr because the highest-ranked Caribbean Soccer Union (CFU) within the FIFA World Rankings.
The Jamaicans are ranked fortieth – down three locations – within the newest world rankings from the game’s apex physique, making them the fourth-highest-ranked staff within the Concacaf area and one in every of 5 CFU groups contained in the world’s prime 100.
After ending third within the Concacaf W Championship with a 1-0 win towards Costa Rica in July, the spotlight of the yr for the Reggae Girlz, as they’re recognized, was a spot within the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup from July 20 to August 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
Sandwiched between a pair of morale-boosting attracts towards France and Brazil, the Jamaicans had a 1-0 win towards fellow Concacaf facet Panama within the group stage of the World Cup and reached the second spherical earlier than bowing out when Colombia beat them 1-0.
The Reggae Girlz did not earn qualification for the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, France, when reigning champions Canada beat them 4-1 on mixture in Concacaf qualification in September.
Additional success eluded the facet within the final quarter of the yr due to a dispute with the Jamaica Soccer Federation when a depleted unit attended the Pan Am Video games and did not get them into the Concacaf Ladies’s Gold Cup.
A lot of the different CFU groups have been lively in qualification tournaments within the confederation, which both helped or harm their rankings.
The opposite 4 CFU groups within the FIFA Prime 100 are Haiti, up one place and ranked at 51st (sixth in Concacaf); Trinidad & Tobago, down three spots at 78th (eighth in Concacaf); Guyana, down two locations at 87th (tenth in Concacaf); and Cuba up six spots at 89th (eleventh in Concacaf).
The CFU prime 10 on the planet is rounded by Puerto Rico unchanged at 103rd (twelfth in Concacaf); Dominican Republic down one spot at 107th (14th in Concacaf); Suriname unchanged at 132nd (seventeenth in Concacaf); St Kitts & Nevis down seven spots at 138th (18th in Concacaf); and Bermuda up three spots at 143rd (nineteenth in Concacaf).
St Lucia dropped 5 locations to a hundred and fifty fifth on the planet to sit down on the foot of the Concacaf prime 20 record.
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