According to the FIFA ranking of men’s national soccer teams published in December 2023, Argentina leads in Latin America and the Caribbean with 1,855 points. The Brazilian squad followed with over 1,780 points.
A soccer superpower
The Brazilian national soccer team, also named La Seleção, is currently one the world’s best national football squads. In 2002, Brazil won its fifth FIFA World Cup title, which placed it as the most successful team in the history of this tournament. Because of its great success in this sport, this South American country has also become the main source of international transfers of male footballers worldwide, overlaying other major soccer markets like Argentina and France.
including only the main 25 national teams that were active in the previous 18 months
Supplementary notes
The calculation of the ranking "relies on adding/subtracting points won or lost for a game to/from the previous point totals." Further information about it can be found here.
Numbers were rounded.
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