FIFA Final Ranking
After the tournament, FIFA published a ranking of all teams that competed in the 1990 World Cup finals based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition.
Final
- West Germany
- Argentina
3rd and 4th place
- Italy
- England
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
- Yugoslavia
- Czechoslovakia
- Cameroon
- Republic of Ireland
Eliminated in the round of 16
- Brazil
- Spain
- Belgium
- Costa Rica
- Romania
- Colombia
- Netherlands
- Uruguay
Eliminated at the group stage
- Soviet Union
- Scotland
- Austria
- Egypt
- Sweden
- South Korea
- United States
- United Arab Emirates
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