Zurich [Switzerland]: The Indian football team dropped two spots to 108 in the latest FIFA rankings which were announced on Thursday.
India suffered a 1-0 defeat against Oman in the FIFA World Cup Qatar Qualifiers on November 19.
The Blue Tigers hold the fourth spot, only above Bangladesh, in the Group E of the qualifiers as they have not won any of their five matches so far.
FIFA World Cup 2022 hosts Qatar, who are in India’s World Cup qualifiers group, have moved two places up to be the fifth-best Asian team with an overall rank of 55.
Meanwhile, Oman have climbed three places to sit at 81. The middle-east nation is now the 11th best Asian team.
In the overall rankings, positions of the top 10 of the world remained unchanged except only Portugal and Croatia have exchanged their places to be the seventh and sixth places respectively.
Belgium will finish the year as the number one football team in the world while France, Brazil, England and Uruguay have retained the following positions till fifth. Spain, Argentina and Colombo are the other teams in the top 10.
