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.

0 ── 100

Attack (front)

Defense (behind)

hairline = strength ÷ 2

#	Team	Grp	Attack	Defense	Strength	Squad clubs	Δ vs model
01	Spain	H	87.5	87.1	87.5 ±1.8	95.9	+8.4
02	Brazil	C	86.0	86.6	86.5 ±1.7	81.3	-5.2
03	Argentina	J	85.1	87.5	86.5 ±1.8	84.1	-2.4
04	England	L	83.9	86.4	85.3 ±1.6	97.0	+11.7
05	France	I	85.0	84.8	85.0 ±1.6	88.2	+3.2
06	Portugal	K	85.1	83.4	84.3 ±1.6	80.7	-3.6
07	Germany	E	87.0	79.2	82.9 ±1.2	90.6	+7.7
08	Colombia	K	81.2	84.2	82.8 ±1.9	69.9	-12.9
09	Netherlands	F	85.2	80.3	82.6 ±1.4	93.6	+11.0
10	Belgium	G	84.3	80.7	82.4 ±1.5	81.1	-1.3
11	Morocco	C	77.5	85.3	81.5 ±1.8	73.7	-7.8
12	Uruguay	H	78.9	82.7	80.8 ±1.8	73.5	-7.3
13	Switzerland	B	80.6	79.4	79.8 ±1.7	84.5	+4.7
14	Croatia	L	80.3	79.7	79.8 ±1.6	77.1	-2.7
15	Ecuador	E	75.1	83.0	79.1 ±1.8	63.8	-15.3
16	Japan	F	78.7	79.2	78.8 ±1.3	72.2	-6.6
17	Norway	I	81.3	76.4	78.5 ±2.0	75.1	-3.4
18	Mexico	A	76.3	79.7	77.9 ±1.3	56.8	-21.1
19	Senegal	I	77.0	78.9	77.8 ±1.6	80.2	+2.4
20	Austria	J	78.0	76.5	77.0 ±1.6	77.9	+0.9
21	Sweden	F	79.3	75.2	76.8 ±1.5	72.5	-4.3
22	Turkey	D	78.6	74.6	76.2 ±1.6	72.1	-4.1
23	Ivory Coast	E	74.2	78.5	76.1 ±1.8	77.4	+1.3
24	Australia	D	73.9	78.3	75.9 ±1.5	59.3	-16.6
25	Iran	G	74.1	77.7	75.7 ±2.1	48.2	-27.5
26	Algeria	J	77.8	74.3	75.6 ±1.5	71.8	-3.8
27	Paraguay	D	72.2	79.2	75.5 ±1.9	64.6	-10.9
28	Egypt	G	72.9	78.5	75.5 ±1.7	50.4	-25.1
29	United States	D	75.9	75.6	75.4 ±1.4	68.6	-6.8
30	Scotland	C	74.5	75.9	74.9 ±1.8	64.8	-10.1
31	South Korea	A	73.5	76.4	74.6 ±1.6	60.3	-14.3
32	Canada	B	74.5	75.5	74.6 ±1.4	58.4	-16.2
33	Czech Republic	A	75.2	74.6	74.5 ±1.5	62.7	-11.8
34	Tunisia	F	71.5	74.9	72.8 ±1.6	65.5	-7.3
35	DR Congo	K	70.1	76.1	72.8 ±1.8	66.3	-6.5
36	Ghana	L	70.6	74.6	72.3 ±1.8	65.1	-7.2
37	South Africa	A	68.9	74.5	71.3 ±1.7	42.6	-28.7
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	B	71.6	71.4	71.0 ±1.7	62.5	-8.5
39	Uzbekistan	K	69.0	72.4	70.2 ±1.8	49.2	-21.0
40	Cape Verde	H	67.2	73.5	69.9 ±2.0	50.7	-19.2
41	Panama	L	69.6	70.7	69.6 ±1.5	50.3	-19.3
42	Saudi Arabia	H	66.5	73.4	69.5 ±1.5	53.6	-15.9
43	Jordan	J	69.0	69.9	68.8 ±1.6	61.5	-7.3
44	Iraq	I	66.0	70.4	67.6 ±1.6	48.4	-19.2
45	Qatar	B	69.0	66.1	66.7 ±1.7	40.2	-26.5
46	New Zealand	G	64.3	68.2	65.5 ±2.2	49.2	-16.3
47	Haiti	C	67.5	65.1	65.4 ±1.8	59.7	-5.7
48	Curaçao	E	62.4	64.7	62.7 ±2.3	56.6	-6.1

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.

Squad clubs is the minutes-weighted average strength of the leagues each squad-member plays in (curated 0–100 table, Premier League = 100). Δ vs model shows how that pool compares to our match-results rating — a positive Δ flags a team whose club-quality pool is richer than its on-field results so far would suggest. The model does not consume this number; it is a cross-check shown alongside.