Jamaica enter FIFA Top 50
Published:Thursday | March 10, 2011 | 12:00 AM
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):
Jamaica have continued on top of the Caribbean Football Union in the latest rankings released yesterday and have claimed their highest FIFA ranking in six years.
The Reggae Boyz, who did not play a game in the intervening period, remain out front in a Top 10 which has remained unchanged from the February rankings. Cuba lie second, with Grenada third and former powerhouse Trinidad and Tobago fourth.
Jamaica, who won the Digicel Caribbean Cup last December, jumped 11 spots in the FIFA rankings to 48th to attain their highest rankings in recent times.
T&T, who struggled in the DCC and failed to make the quarter-finals, dropped one place in the FIFA rankings to 95.
Rankings:
1 Jamaica (48), 2 Cuba (64), 3 Grenada (94), 4 Trinidad and Tobago (95), 5 Haiti (99), 6 Antigua and Barbuda (101), 7 Guyana (109), 8 Suriname (114), 9 St Kitts and Nevis (119), 10 Dominica (130), 11 Puerto Rico (131), 12 Barbados (137), 13 St Vincent and the Grenadines (148), 14 Cayman Islands (158), 15 Bermuda (165), 16 Dominican Republic (166).