Scotland up four places to #24

On the strength of a World Cup qualifying win over Iceland, we rose four spots in this month’s FIFA rankings to #24. That’s still eleven places below our best-ever ranking of #13 back in October 2007 (beating France twice will do that), but still an improvement as we rise back up from #33 back in December/January. Here’s how the WC qualifying group looks in the rankings:

Netherlands – #3 – 1360 pts
Scotland – #24 – 815 pts
Norway – #46 – 640 pts
Macedonia – #64 – 507 pts
Iceland – #93 – 386 pts

Clearly, the top two in the group are where they belong. The surprise right now is Norway bringing up the rear, but I believe they will get some results in the second half of the group, hopefully not against us. Mon the Scots.