Section 02 · 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.

#	Team	Grp	Attack	Defense	Strength
01	Spain	H	87.5	85.4	87.5 ±1.8
02	Brazil	C	86.0	86.3	87.3 ±1.7
03	Argentina	J	84.7	87.5	87.3 ±1.8
04	England	L	83.5	86.2	86.0 ±1.6
05	France	I	83.9	84.0	84.9 ±1.6
06	Portugal	K	84.8	82.4	84.4 ±1.6
07	Germany	E	86.1	79.2	83.4 ±1.2
08	Colombia	K	81.8	83.0	83.3 ±2.0
09	Netherlands	F	84.3	80.1	82.9 ±1.5
10	Belgium	G	83.4	80.0	82.4 ±1.5
11	Uruguay	H	79.0	83.1	81.9 ±1.8
12	Morocco	C	76.4	84.5	81.5 ±1.8
13	Croatia	L	79.9	80.0	80.7 ±1.7
14	Ecuador	E	76.0	82.6	80.2 ±1.8
15	Switzerland	B	80.2	78.6	80.0 ±1.7
16	Japan	F	78.4	78.8	79.2 ±1.3
17	Norway	I	79.9	76.9	78.9 ±2.0
18	Senegal	I	75.5	79.5	78.2 ±1.6
19	Austria	J	77.3	76.8	77.6 ±1.6
20	Mexico	A	75.3	78.4	77.5 ±1.3
21	Sweden	F	78.2	75.6	77.3 ±1.5
22	Turkey	D	78.4	74.4	76.8 ±1.6
23	Iran	G	74.7	77.4	76.6 ±2.1
24	Australia	D	74.6	77.3	76.5 ±1.5
25	Paraguay	D	72.6	78.9	76.4 ±1.9
26	Algeria	J	77.0	74.2	75.9 ±1.5
27	Ivory Coast	E	73.5	77.1	75.8 ±1.8
28	South Korea	A	74.2	76.0	75.6 ±1.7
29	United States	D	74.8	75.4	75.6 ±1.4
30	Czech Republic	A	75.2	74.9	75.5 ±1.5
31	Scotland	C	74.7	75.3	75.4 ±1.8
32	Egypt	G	71.7	77.9	75.4 ±1.7
33	Tunisia	F	71.1	77.7	75.0 ±1.6
34	Canada	B	73.6	74.8	74.6 ±1.4
35	Uzbekistan	K	69.2	75.3	72.7 ±1.8
36	DR Congo	K	69.0	74.5	72.1 ±1.8
37	Ghana	L	70.3	72.7	71.8 ±1.8
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	B	70.9	71.2	71.3 ±1.7
39	South Africa	A	68.5	73.2	71.2 ±1.7
40	Saudi Arabia	H	67.1	73.0	70.4 ±1.5
41	Jordan	J	69.3	70.5	70.0 ±1.6
42	Panama	L	69.7	69.8	69.9 ±1.6
43	Iraq	I	66.6	72.3	69.7 ±1.6
44	Cape Verde	H	66.4	71.3	69.1 ±2.0
45	Qatar	B	69.6	66.8	68.1 ±1.7
46	New Zealand	G	63.3	70.9	67.2 ±2.2
47	Haiti	C	66.9	64.6	65.5 ±1.8
48	Curaçao	E	62.2	64.7	63.2 ±2.3

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.

Attack & defense,on a 0–100 scale.

Attack & defense,
on a 0–100 scale.