Canadian men reach record high, climbing to No. 28 in FIFA world rankings

Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 10, 2025 9:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

The Canadian men proceed to scope caller heights nether manager Jesse Marsch, climbing 2 places to a career-high No. 28 successful the latest FIFA satellite rankings.

Canada was ranked 49th erstwhile the American manager took implicit successful May 2024. The Canadians person climbed steadily since to No. 48, 40, 38 and 35, surpassing its erstwhile precocious of No. 33 (set successful February 2022 nether erstwhile manager John Herdman aft an awesome World Cup qualifying run) erstwhile it reached No. 31 successful November.

Canada closed retired the twelvemonth unchanged astatine No. 31 earlier mounting a caller people successful April astatine No. 30.

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Since then, the Canadians bushed Ukraine 4-2 and mislaid to Ivory Coast successful a punishment shootout successful the Canadian Shield Tournament and defeated Honduras 6-0 and El Salvador 2-0, drawn Curacao 1-1, and mislaid a punishment shootout to Guatemala astatine the Concacaf Gold Cup.

Canada's lowest ranking was No. 122 successful October 2014.

The apical 5 teams successful the caller rankings are unchanged with Argentina No. 1 followed by Spain, France, England and Brazil. Portugal jumps 1 spot to No. 6, dropping the Netherlands to No. 7. Belgium is unchanged astatine No. 8 with Germany and Croatia each climbing 1 spot to No. 9 and No. 10, respectively.

Italy drops 2 places to No. 11.

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Gold Cup victor Mexico jumps 4 spots to No. 13, down unchanged Morocco, to leapfrog the U.S. and instrumentality implicit apical spot successful Concacaf. The Americans, beaten 2-1 by Mexico successful Sunday's Gold Cup final, moved up 1 spot to No. 15.

Canada ranks 3rd successful Concacaf, which covers North and Central America and the Caribbean.

Canada's adjacent matches are against No. 48 Romania successful Bucharest and No. 31 Wales successful Swansea during the September FIFA window, followed by location and distant friendlies successful October against No. 24 Australia successful Montreal and No. 14 Colombia successful Harrison, N.J.

Co-host Canada opens World Cup play connected June 12, 2026, successful Toronto.

Costa Rica is the biggest climber successful the caller rankings, up 14 places to No. 40 aft making the Gold Cup quarterfinals, wherever it mislaid to the U.S. successful a punishment shootout. No. 66 Honduras, up 9 places, and No. 100 Guatemala, up six places, besides leap acknowledgment to making the Gold Cup semifinals.

No. 70 Jamaica, No. 90 Haiti, No. 132 Congo and No. 171 Maldives each fell 7 places.

FIFA says 202 matches were played since the past rankings.

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