On September 10-18, the Socca World Cup took place in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

We will remind you that the Lithuanian national team played in Group C and took third place in it, beating Morocco (9:0) and Costa Rica (3:1), but losing to Slovenia (1:4) and Poland (1:4). This is how the Lithuanian national team ended its performance at the World Cup.

At that time, the Brazilian national team became the world champion for the first time, defeating Kazakhstan's footballers in the final. The third place was taken by Poland, which played in the Lithuanian group.

After the end of the World Cup, the international Socca Federation announced an updated ranking of the national teams of small-side football, in which Lithuania's position dropped by two places. The Lithuanian small-side football team will end the year 2022 in 22nd place.

We would like to remind you that after the 2019 Socca World Cup, in which Lithuania reached the round of 16, the Lithuanian national team was ranked 20th.

Returning to the updated ranking, our neighbor Latvia occupies a high position in it. After beating Germany in its group and entering the round of 16, Latvia rose to 16th place.

At that time, the new world champions, Brazil, ranked 2nd, while Poland, which played in the same group as Lithuania, took first place. Polish won silver twice and bronze once in the last three world cups, so after evaluating all these results, Poland rose to first place in the ranking.