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Chinese soccer is now on the verge of losing ground to Thailand.
China's Sohu said on the 9th (Korea time) 'The fall of Chinese soccer is endless, there is only a deeper abyss. The Chinese national team is seriously collapsing. The latest score in the FIFA rankings shows that China has plummeted to 1,235.9 points, ranking 99th in the FIFA rankings. It's the 15th in Asia. Thailand scored 1238.34 points after winning the friendly match. It became 98th in FIFA rankings and 14th in Asia, beating China. Thailand led China for the first time since FIFA introduced the rankings.
When the FIFA rankings were announced in April, China was 94th, down four places from the previous 90th. He was about 16 points ahead of Thailand, which was ranked 99th, with 1250.95. Things have changed rapidly since the A-match in June. There has been no official announcement yet, but if China's FIFA ranking score is calculated in real time, China's score drops sharply as it loses 0-1 to Indonesia.
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By comparison, Thailand won 2-0 in a friendly match against India. FIFA ranking scores fall even further if a higher ranking country loses to a lower ranking country. Indonesia is rated higher than China in the immediate history, but Indonesia was ranked 123rd in the FIFA rankings, 29 places lower than China.
Thus, China dropped 15 points from the real-time FIFA ranking score. Thailand, ranked 99th, gained four points after catching India, ranked 127th in the FIFA rankings. As a result, the gap between the two teams disappeared, and Thailand reversed China. There is still one A match left in June, but Thailand is ahead of China in real time. In other words, the fall of Chinese soccer has not ended in the fall of the World Cup.
In other words, Chinese soccer is in crisis. China's lowest FIFA ranking is 109th. With this atmosphere, we may be able to change the worst ranking ever. The ranking is also the lowest in nearly a decade.
The reason why China is shocked by the FIFA ranking drop is that it adversely affects the group formation of the 2027 Asian Cup depending on the FIFA ranking. The Asian Cup teaming will be divided into ports in the order of FIFA ranking. There are 1 to 4 ports, and 6 countries are deployed for each port. Except for the host countries, the rest of the countries will be placed in FIFA ranking order.
If the current trend continues, China will be deployed to the three ports of the group. This itself is a bad thing, but it will be a more difficult tournament as it reaches the difficult level of the group stage.
Even China is behind Thailand not only in the national team but also in the league. Sohu said 'Shameful overtaking is foreseen. Just last month, the Chinese Super League (54.682 points) was overtaken by the Thai Super League (54.873) in the latest technical point ranking released by the Asian Football Confederation. This was the first time in more than two decades that the Asian Football Confederation club's points system had been run by the Thai Super League, resulting in one less berth for the Asian Champions League next season for the Chinese Super League, it said.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
