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By March 2015, after not playing any matches, India reached their lowest FIFA ranking position of 173. [71] A couple months prior, Stephen Constantine was re-hired as the head coach after first leading India more than a decade before. [72] Constantine's first major assignment back as the India head coach were the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of December 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
After withdrawing from the 1950 FIFA World Cup, India didn't enter the qualifying rounds of the tournament between 1954 and 1982. [2] Since the 1986 qualifiers , with the exception of the 1990 edition of the tournament, the team started to participate in qualifiers but have yet to qualify for the tournament again.
FIFA Rankings Best Worst 533 193 112 228 36.21% 94 (1996) 173 (2015) Biggest win Sri Lanka 0–7 India. 7 December 1963. Biggest defeat Soviet Union 11–1 India 16 September 1955. Updated as of 18 November 2024 (vs Malaysia). [4] [5] [6] [7]
By March 2015, after not playing any matches, India reached their lowest FIFA ranking position of 173. [64] A couple months prior, Stephen Constantine was re-hired as the head coach after first leading India more than a decade before. [65] Constantine's first major assignment back as the India head coach were the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Since Houghton resigned as India team Head coach in 2011, the India national team's FIFA ranking touched its lowest at 173 in the team history in March 2015, [2] [3] but Constantine, who was appointed for the second time as the head coach of India, [4] [5] revived the Indian team from its meagre condition
India has played against 22 different nations during FIFA World Cup qualification. Matches played from the 1986 edition to the 1994 edition had been provided with 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. Matches played thereafter have been provided with 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss.
The team ranking in each tournament is according to FIFA. [8] [9] [10] The rankings, apart from the top four positions (top two in 1930), are not a result of direct competition between the teams; instead, teams eliminated in the same round are ranked by their full results in the tournament.