Ratings

Attack & defense, on a 0–100 scale.

Each team's latent rating mapped linearly so the 5th and 95th percentile of FIFA-member teams sit at 10 and 90. Strength is the sum; the ±band is one bootstrap σ. Defense (cool) sits behind attack (signal) on the bar so high-strength teams reveal both edges.

0 ── 100

Attack (front)

Defense (behind)

hairline = strength ÷ 2

#	Team	Grp	Attack	Defense	Strength	Squad clubs	Δ vs model
01	Spain	H	87.5	85.2	87.5 ±1.8	95.9	+8.4
02	Argentina	J	84.5	87.5	87.3 ±1.8	84.1	-3.2
03	Brazil	C	85.9	86.1	87.2 ±1.7	81.3	-5.9
04	England	L	83.5	86.3	86.1 ±1.6	97.0	+10.9
05	France	I	83.9	83.7	84.9 ±1.6	88.2	+3.3
06	Portugal	K	84.8	82.2	84.5 ±1.6	80.7	-3.8
07	Germany	E	86.2	79.2	83.5 ±1.2	90.6	+7.1
08	Colombia	K	81.7	82.8	83.3 ±2.0	69.9	-13.4
09	Netherlands	F	84.2	80.0	82.9 ±1.5	93.6	+10.7
10	Belgium	G	83.7	80.2	82.8 ±1.5	81.1	-1.7
11	Uruguay	H	78.9	82.9	82.0 ±1.9	73.5	-8.5
12	Morocco	C	76.5	84.6	81.7 ±1.8	73.7	-8.0
13	Croatia	L	79.9	79.8	80.7 ±1.7	77.1	-3.6
14	Ecuador	E	76.0	82.5	80.2 ±1.8	63.8	-16.4
15	Switzerland	B	80.2	78.5	80.1 ±1.7	84.5	+4.4
16	Japan	F	78.5	78.8	79.4 ±1.4	72.2	-7.2
17	Norway	I	79.9	76.8	79.0 ±2.0	75.1	-3.9
18	Senegal	I	75.5	79.6	78.4 ±1.6	80.2	+1.8
19	Mexico	A	75.9	78.7	78.0 ±1.3	56.8	-21.2
20	Austria	J	77.4	76.7	77.7 ±1.6	77.9	+0.2
21	Sweden	F	78.2	75.4	77.4 ±1.5	72.5	-4.9
22	Turkey	D	78.5	74.4	76.9 ±1.6	72.1	-4.8
23	Iran	G	75.0	77.5	76.9 ±2.1	48.2	-28.7
24	Australia	D	74.7	77.4	76.7 ±1.5	59.3	-17.4
25	Algeria	J	77.2	74.6	76.4 ±1.5	71.8	-4.6
26	United States	D	75.5	75.5	76.1 ±1.4	68.6	-7.5
27	Ivory Coast	E	73.7	77.2	76.1 ±1.8	77.4	+1.3
28	Paraguay	D	72.8	77.9	76.0 ±1.9	64.6	-11.4
29	South Korea	A	74.5	76.1	75.9 ±1.7	60.3	-15.6
30	Scotland	C	75.0	75.3	75.7 ±1.8	64.8	-10.9
31	Egypt	G	71.9	77.9	75.6 ±1.7	50.4	-25.2
32	Czech Republic	A	75.3	74.5	75.4 ±1.5	62.7	-12.7
33	Canada	B	73.7	74.9	74.8 ±1.4	58.4	-16.4
34	Tunisia	F	71.2	77.2	74.8 ±1.6	65.5	-9.3
35	Uzbekistan	K	69.4	75.4	72.9 ±1.8	49.2	-23.7
36	DR Congo	K	69.0	74.6	72.3 ±1.8	66.3	-6.0
37	Ghana	L	70.4	72.7	71.9 ±1.8	65.1	-6.8
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	B	70.9	71.4	71.5 ±1.7	62.5	-9.0
39	South Africa	A	68.4	73.1	71.2 ±1.7	42.6	-28.6
40	Saudi Arabia	H	67.2	73.3	70.7 ±1.5	53.6	-17.1
41	Jordan	J	69.4	70.6	70.2 ±1.6	61.5	-8.7
42	Panama	L	70.0	69.8	70.1 ±1.6	50.3	-19.8
43	Iraq	I	66.7	72.5	70.0 ±1.6	48.4	-21.6
44	Cape Verde	H	66.4	71.4	69.2 ±2.0	50.7	-18.5
45	Qatar	B	69.7	66.9	68.3 ±1.7	40.2	-28.1
46	New Zealand	G	63.1	70.7	67.1 ±2.2	49.2	-17.9
47	Haiti	C	67.4	64.8	66.0 ±1.8	59.7	-6.3
48	Curaçao	E	62.4	64.9	63.6 ±2.3	56.6	-7.0

Reading the bars

The blue (rear) bar is defense; the red (front) bar is attack. A team that is balanced shows the red bar covering most of the blue. A team that scores well but concedes badly shows the red bar far further right than the blue. The vertical hairline marks strength ÷ 2 — a midpoint reference for visual scanning.

Squad clubs is the minutes-weighted average strength of the leagues each squad-member plays in (curated 0–100 table, Premier League = 100). Δ vs model shows how that pool compares to our match-results rating — a positive Δ flags a team whose club-quality pool is richer than its on-field results so far would suggest. The model does not consume this number; it is a cross-check shown alongside.