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 Boys, who did not play a game in the intervening period, remains out front in a top 10 which has remained unchanged from the February rankings. Cuba lie second with Grenada third and former powerhouses 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.
None of the other CFU sides experienced any significant movement in the rankings with Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana and Suriname all rising three spots in FIFA but still remaining sixth, seventh and eighth respectively.
T&T, who struggled in the DCC and failed to make the quarter-finals, dropped one place in the FIFA rankings to 95.
Latest Caribbean Football Union rankings.
(FIFA rankings are in brackets)
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)
17 British Virgin Islands (177)
18 St. Lucia (182)
19=Turks and Caicos Islands (193)
19=Bahamas (193)
21 Aruba (199)
22 US Virgin Islands (200)
23=Anguilla (202)
23=Montserrat (202)
