France Wins Month of July After Football World Cup Triumph

France celebrates Football World Cup victory at Russia 2018

France won the July monthly ranking in the Global Cup, topping the table of the world’s best sporting nations thanks chiefly to its men’s team’s victory in the FIFA Football World Cup 2018, held in Russia.

Triumph in football’s premier international tournament was worth 800 GSN points for Les Bleus, but France added more, notably coming second in the men’s Volleyball Nations League (worth a hefty 192 points) and picking up a useful 111 points at the Fencing World Championships, in which it finished fifth.
 
Overall Global Cup leader USA came second behind France in the July monthly ranking, on the back of a strong performance in Volleyball (victory in the women’s World Grand Prix and third place in the men’s Nations League), Golf, Lacrosse and Fencing – the USA finished third behind Italy and South Korea in the Fencing World Championships.
 
The USA, Italy and South Korea were the only countries in the monthly top ten not to have featured prominently in the Football World Cup, as was the case for Great Britain, third in the month after England’s fourth place in Russia and strong performances in the Lacrosse World Championships and the Rugby Sevens World Cup, Croatia (Football World Cup runner-up), Russia, Belgium, Brazil and Sweden.
 
The full monthly ranking for July is set out below.
Place
Country
Points
Points %
1
France
1,235
15.4%
2
United States
923
11.5%
3
Great Britain
706
8.8%
4
Croatia
640
8.0%
5
Russia
596
7.4%
6
Belgium
480
6.0%
7
Brazil
420
5.2%
8
Italy
347
4.3%
9
Sweden
226
2.8%
10
South Korea
216
2.7%
11
Canada
210
2.6%
12
Serbia
204
2.5%
13
Uruguay
200
2.5%
14
China
164
2.0%
15
Turkey
160
2.0%
16
New Zealand
122
1.5%
17
Australia
109
1.4%
18
Germany
109
1.3%
19
Netherlands
107
1.3%
20
Japan
100
1.2%
21
Poland
98
1.2%
22
South Africa
88
1.1%
23
Spain
81
1.0%
24
Switzerland
49
0.6%
25
Argentina
45
0.6%
26
Fiji
40
0.5%
27
Czech Republic
40
0.5%
28
Hungary
39
0.5%
29
Ukraine
33
0.4%
30
Finland
32
0.4%
31
Israel
32
0.4%
32
Latvia
28
0.3%
33
Venezuela
16
0.2%
34
Romania
16
0.2%
35
Tunisia
16
0.2%
36
Puerto Rico
16
0.2%
37
Slovakia
15
0.2%
38
Ireland
14
0.2%
39
Estonia
11
0.1%
40
Norway
10
0.1%
41
Georgia
10
0.1%
42
Slovenia
10
0.1%
43
San Marino
8
0.1%
44
Iran
6
0.1%
45
Kazakhstan
5
0.1%
46
Greece
5
0.1%
47
Chile
4
0.0%
48
United Arab Emirates
2
0.0%
49
Austria
1
0.0%
Grand Total
8,039
100.0%