In addition to the fact that Qatar made history by winning the 2019 AFC (Asian Football Confederation) Asian Cup for the absolute first time, it's set to leave a mark on the world once more when the FIFA World Rankings declares it's rankings inside the following couple of days, and Qatar turns into the Arabian Gulf region’s highest ranking team and the fifth most ranked team in Asia after Iran, Japan, Korea Republic and Australia.
Qatar's win over Japan with a 3 - 1 last score in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup will likewise bring its overall FIFA positioning down to 55 from the ranking of 93 which it has been at before winning the 2019 AFC title.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia make up numbers 6 and 7 individually in the FIFA ranking in Asia, and the updated ranking will put Qatar in front of them.
The FIFA World Rankings posting is refreshed on a normal fundamental so it can record exhibitions of teams who played as of late, and either add them to the rundown, or move their positioning up or down, contingent upon how they played.
Qatar played an extraordinary diversion all through the 2019 AFC Championship where it won every one of the seven of its matches with 18 objectives altogether, and one yielded objective, procuring it the title alongside the 'most profitable player' and 'best scorer' grant for Almoez Ali, and the 'best goalkeeper grant' for Saad Al Sheeb.
The group played with assurance and a ton of persistence in the UAE where it confronted an unfriendly domain and even had shoes and jugs tossed at them in the arena amid the Qatar versus UAE semi finals coordinate which Qatar proceeded to win 4 - 0. They additionally played without supporters from Qatar after the UAE blocked individuals from Qatar from visiting Abu Dhabi to watch the football competition, in spite of the fact that they got a great deal of help from Omani and Kuwaiti supporters alongside other expat networks.