TONGA

Tonga is a group of 169 islands in the South Pacific. It has a total area of 269 square miles and a population of 103,036.

They’ve played no games in 2016, but in 2015 they played four. They lost the lot of course and only scored one goal, in a 2-1 defeat to the mighty American Samoa.

In 1993 Tonga won the Polynesian Cup, played against Samoa and the Cook Islands and, quite frankly, they’ve dined out on this ever since.

And if that was the peak, then the nadir was on April 9, 2001, when they lost to Australia…22-0.

Tonga is basically a Rugby Union country and their interest in Association Football appears pretty minor.

If they’re not that bothered about it and with a smallish population, Tonga look set to remain near the bottom of the FIFA rankings for pretty much forever.

So there we are – the seven worst teams in the world.

Well, internationally, of course. But at least they are playing football, even if it’s not very often or very well.

They all have their reasons for being bottom of the rankings…some are stuck there but others might change in the future. Good luck to them all I say.