Vietnam has maintained their position as the Southeast Asian No. 1 team in the latest FIFA rankings, the Vietnam Football Federation said on February 20.

 

Japan, Iran and the Republic of Korea continued to be the continental top three.

Belgium were the world’s strongest team, followed by France and Brazil, respectively.

The FIFA rankings in January recorded few changes as only 15 friendlies were held worldwide in the one-month period, with two matches taking place in late 2019.

Next month, Vietnam will play two matches counted towards teams’ FIFA rankings.

They will face Kyrgyzstan (world’s No. 96) in a friendly match on March 26 and Malaysia (No. 154) in the second round of the 2022 World Cup Asian qualifiers five days later.

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