| Organization name | : | South Asian Football Federation |
| Abbreviation | : | SAFF |
| Type | : | Sports federation |
| Purpose | : | Sport governance |
| Founded | : | 1997 |
| Headquarters | : | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Membership | : | 7 national associations |
| Region served | : | South Asia |
| Website | : | https://saffederation.org/ |
The FIFA World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football. The teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A points system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of all FIFA-recognised full international matches. The ranking system has been revamped on several occasions, generally responding to criticism that the preceding calculation method did not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams. Since 16 August 2018, the ranking system has adopted the Elo rating system used in chess and Go.
South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), founded in 1997, is an association of the football playing nations in South Asia and is part of the larger Asian Football Confederation. Its founding members are Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Bhutan joined the federation in 2000 and Afghanistan in 2005. In February 2015, captain Haroon Amiri announced that Afghanistan had officially left the SAFF for the new Central Asian Football Association.
FIFA World Rankings South Asian Zone (SAFF)
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| FIFA World Ranking |
| Europe | : | UEFA |
| South America | : | CONMEBOL |
| North, Central America and Caribbean | : | CONCACAF (CFU, NAFU, UNCAF) |
| Asia | : | AFC (AFF, CAFA, EAFF, SAFF, WAFF) |
| Africa | : | CAF (CECAFA, COSAFA, UNAF, UNIFFAC, WAFU-UFOA) |
| Oceania | : | OFC |
