About
Football Elo Ratings is a personal project built to make international football team-strength data easier to explore.
This site is built and maintained by one person in their spare time. The goal is simple: take publicly available football data and present it in a way that's genuinely pleasant to browse — with rankings, head-to-head comparisons, fixture projections, and historical trends all in one place. There are a lot of other features in the works!
None of the underlying ratings, results, or team information are my own work. The value I add is the interface: collecting the data, keeping it up to date, and giving you tools to look at it from different angles. If something looks wrong, it's almost certainly worth checking against the original sources below.
All the data on this site comes from third parties and remains theirs. I am hugely grateful to the following sources, without which this project would not exist:
eloratings.net
The source of every Elo rating, match result, and fixture on this site. The entire ranking system, the historical results database, and the point-exchange model are their work. Ratings are re-fetched from eloratings.net nightly. Please visit and support the original site. The explanation of the Elo system on their about page is a great introduction to how it all works.
Wikipedia
The source of team information shown alongside the ratings — federation crests, coaching staff, and squad details. This content is contributed by Wikipedia's editors and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Crests, badges, and competition logos
Club crests, federation badges, and competition logos are the trademarks and copyright of the clubs, associations, and organisers they belong to. They appear here at low resolution, purely to identify the club or competition whose ratings are being reported, and are served from their original hosts rather than copied onto this site. Nothing here is official, endorsed by, or affiliated with any club, league, or association. Most marks are used under fair use / fair dealing; a number are freely licensed or in the public domain. Every one records its source and licence in the database. If you hold rights to a mark shown here and would like it removed, please get in touch and I will take it down.
Player photographs
Player photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and are shown only where they carry a free licence — Creative Commons or public domain. The fair-use reasoning that covers crests and logos does not extend to photographs of people, so anything Wikimedia reports as non-free is discarded rather than displayed. Copyright remains with the photographer, each image records its licence in the database, and images are served from Wikimedia rather than copied onto this site. Free photographs are far more common for top-flight players than lower-division ones, so many squad members show their shirt number instead — that is expected, not a missing image. If you are pictured here and would like the photo removed, please get in touch.
- Browse the live world rankings for every international men's team.
- Check upcoming fixtures with win probabilities and Elo point projections.
- Compare teams head-to-head across their rating history.
- Explore long-term trends by team and confederation.
Have feedback, found a bug, or just want to follow along? You can find me on Bluesky:
Bluesky