Having secured qualification for EURO 2020, Italy sit 15th in the FIFA World Ranking on 1593 points, with Belgium, France and Brazil retaining the top three spots in the table. Uruguay, (5th), Croatia (7th) and Argentina (9th) all move up a spot in the top ten, while Portugal (6th), Spain (8th) and Colombia (10th) all drop down in the ranking.

Other countries of note were Ukraine (22nd, +3), Japan (28th, +3), Turkey (32nd, +4) and Russia (37th, +5), along with the significant leaps by Nicaragua (137th, +11), Barbados (160th, +10) and Kosovo (114th, +5, this being their best ranking ever).

The next set of FIFA World Rankings will be announced on 28 November.

The top 20 countries in the FIFA World Ranking:

1) Belgium 1755 points (-)
2) France 1726 points (-)
3) Brazil 1715 points (-)
4) England 1651 points (-)
5) Uruguay 1642 points (+1)
6) Portugal 1632 points (-1)
7) Croatia 1631 points (+1)
8) Spain 1625 points (-1)
9) Argentina 1617 points (+1)
10) Colombia 1615 points (-1)
11) Mexico 1613 points (+1)
12) Netherlands 1602 points (+1)
13) Switzerland 1601 points (-2)
14) Denmark 1599 points (-)
15) ITALY 1593 points (-)
16) Germany 1586 points (-)
17) Chile 1579 points (-)
18) Sweden 1563 points (-)
19) Peru 1548 points (-)
20) Senegal 1546 points (-)