Thursday (June 29) brought good news for Indian football fans. Team India has joined the top-100 in the latest rankings released by FIFA. Earlier the ranking of the Indian team was 101. She has managed to break into the top-100 for the first time in five years. The Indian team got the benefit of winning the Intercontinental Cup held in Bhubaneswar. He defeated Lebanon 2–0 in the final of this tournament.

The loss in the final of the Intercontinental Cup saw Lebanon drop three places and move from 99 to 102. India's best ever FIFA ranking is 94. The Indian team is currently playing in the SAFF Championship, where it has to play the semi-finals against Lebanon on Saturday.

The Indian team was ranked 99th on 15 March 2018. Since then, there was a lack of consistency in the performance of Team India. The result of this was that the ranking of the team kept falling down a lot. Ever since Igor Stimac of Croatia became the coach of Team India, there has been an improvement in the performance of the team. Now she has also joined the top-100.

The world champion team of Argentina is on the first position. He won the World Cup at the end of last year under the captaincy of Lionel Messi. France is second, Brazil third, England fourth and Belgium fifth. Croatia sixth, Netherlands seventh, Euro champion Italy eighth, Cristiano Ronaldo's team Portugal ninth and Spain 10th. The US team has gained two places. She has come from 13th to 11th number.

Talking about Asian teams, Japan is at the top position at 10th position. In this case, the Indian team is at the 18th position. Talking about Pakistan, it is at 201st position. He is ranked 44th among Asian teams.