In the following R Shiny app you can visualize the men’s FIFA ranking timeline of different nations interactively:
The data (from December 1992 to April 2024) was scraped from the official FIFA website.
The app has a date range selector and 4 nation selectors. It is possible to visualize from 1 to 4 nations at the same time (if you prefer the 2nd, 3rd & 4th teams could be set as “None”). The default is the selection of countries in group A of the 2022 world cup.
Downloading graphs option as PNG file.
Link to the Github repo. Data is in the “ranking_fifa_historical.csv” file.
It has not been optimized for mobile devices. I suggest exploring the data using the application on a desktop device.