1986 FIFA World Cup - FIFA Retrospective Ranking

FIFA Retrospective Ranking

In 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition. The rankings for the 1986 tournament were as follows:

Final

  1. Argentina
  2. West Germany

3rd and 4th place

  1. France
  2. Belgium

Eliminated in the quarter-finals

  1. Brazil
  2. Mexico
  3. Spain
  4. England

Eliminated in the round of 16

  1. Denmark
  2. Soviet Union
  3. Morocco
  4. Italy
  5. Paraguay
  6. Poland
  7. Bulgaria
  8. Uruguay

Eliminated at the group stage

  1. Portugal
  2. Hungary
  3. Scotland
  4. South Korea
  5. Northern Ireland
  6. Algeria
  7. Iraq
  8. Canada

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