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 July 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 which played the “Copa America” 2024 final game (Argentina vs Colombia) and the Euro cup 2024 (Spain vd England).
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.