Germany top FIFA year-end rankings

World champions Germany, comfortably top the pile of the FIFA national team rankings revealed last Thursday despite a slump in form since their rampant campaign in Brazil.

The top three remain unchanged since September with Lionel Messi's beaten World Cup finalists, Argentina, second, and Colombia in third.

Up-and-coming Belgium are fourth ahead of their northern neighbours, The Netherlands, while the humiliated World Cup hosts, Brazil, round off the year in a respectable sixth.

Euro 2016 hosts, France, are seventh as Didier Deschamps' solid team continue to impress while World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal are level with them.

After years atop the heap, Spain end 2014 in ninth, but look to be in fine health with 2015 coming into view.

Finally, Luis Suarez's Uruguay have done enough to climb back into 10th for the year-end rankings.