Vietnam Wins Over Thailand In The First Leg Of The 2024 AFF Cup Final, The Indonesian National Team Gets Bad News

The Indonesian national team experienced a decline in FIFA rankings due to the match Vietnam vs Thailand (VOI/Ferry Tri Adi).

JAKARTA - The Indonesian National Team received unpleasant news after Vietnam successfully won over Thailand in the first leg of the 2024 AFF Cup final. This is related to ranking in the FIFA ranks.

Vietnam and Thailand met in the first leg of the 2024 AFF Cup final. In the match which was held at the Viet Tri Stadium on Thursday, January 2, 2025, WIB night, the Golden Stars successfully won over Thailand.

The 2-1 score in Vietnam's victory was contributed by the Brazilian naturalized striker, Nguyen Xuan Son alias Rafaelson.

He opened the scoring in the 59th minute and scored again in the 73rd minute through a quick counter-attack.

Meanwhile, Thailand was only able to reduce the score before the match ended in the 83rd minute. This result gives Vietnam a great opportunity to win the 2024 AFF Cup.

Based on football-ranking.com data quoted on Friday, January 3, 2025, the victory over Thailand made Vietnam get an additional 2.79 points so that it was ranked up two levels from 114 to the 112 FIFA ladder.

Thailand, who lost to Vietnam, then got a 2.79 point deduction. However, this has not changed Thailand's current position in the 97th FIFA rankings.

From the calculation of the Vietnam vs Thailand match points, there was an impact on Indonesia. The Garuda squad was forced to fall from 127 to 130 in the world.

This situation occurred because there were two countries, namely Sierra Leone and Cyprus, were able to increase their rankings to overtake Indonesia.

This condition is also bad news for Indonesia, which has actually decreased its FIFA ranking far from Vietnam.

Even so, Indonesia still has the opportunity to increase its ranking if it is able to achieve good results in the 2026 World Cup Qualification continued match in March 2025.