MI­A­MI – T&T se­nior men's foot­ball team stayed in the top ten of the lat­est Con­ca­caf rank­ings is­sued on Fri­day de­spite a slow start to their 2026 Con­ca­caf Fi­nal Round World Cup qual­i­fiers ear­li­er this month.

The Dwight Yorke-coached So­ca War­riors was held goal­less at home by Cu­ra­cao in their four-team Group B open­er on Sep­tem­ber 5, be­fore falling to a 0-2 loss away to Ja­maica last Tues­day, to sit in the third spot in the group be­hind Ja­maica who blanked Bermu­da in their open­ing match has a max­i­mum six points, while Cu­ra­cao is sec­ond with four points af­ter edg­ing the Bermu­dans, 3-2 in their sec­ond match.

Suri­name is one of the most im­proved teams, fol­low­ing an un­de­feat­ed start in the Fi­nal Round of the Con­ca­caf Group A Qual­i­fiers to the 2026 FI­FA World Cup with a goal­less draw at home to Pana­ma, and a 2-1 win away to El Sal­vador to rise in the lat­est Con­ca­caf Men's Na­tion­al Team Rank­ings.

The Con­ca­caf Rank­ing In­dex grades all na­tion­al teams across the con­fed­er­a­tion. Na­tions gain points for re­sults in the Na­tions League, Gold Cup, World Cup Qual­i­fiers, and oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al match­es.

Re­gion­al­ly, Ja­maica keeps the lead in the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) rank­ing, while Haiti and Suri­name jump a place in the Caribbean Top 10.

Top ten over­all ranked Ja­maica, Haiti, and T&T to be­gin the top ten list in the Caribbean while at 11 is Suri­name (1,282) and, 12th ranked Cu­raçao (1,246) com­plete the top five.

The quin­tet of Mar­tinique (1,202), Guade­loupe (1,152), Guyana (1,057), Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic (1,044), and Cu­ba (1,019) com­plete the top ten in the sub­re­gion.

Reign­ing Con­ca­caf Gold Cup and Na­tions League win­ners Mex­i­co (2,024 points) re­tained the num­ber one spot fol­low­ing back-to-back draws in friend­lies against Japan and Ko­rea Re­pub­lic, re­spec­tive­ly.

Fel­low FI­FA World Cup 26 co-hosts Cana­da (1,824) rose to sec­ond over­all af­ter away wins against Ro­ma­nia and Wales in in­ter­na­tion­al friend­lies.

Pana­ma (1,779), USA (1,726), and Cos­ta Ri­ca (1,691) round out the top five while Hon­duras (1,569), Ja­maica (1,553), Haiti (1,411), Guatemala (1,409), and T&T (1,319) com­plete the top ten.

El Sal­vador (1,206) is the on­ly team to move up in the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca top ten, jump­ing up to fifth place in the sub­re­gion.

Pana­ma, Cos­ta Ri­ca, Hon­duras, and Guatemala be­gin the top four in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca. Nicaragua (1,149), No 16 over­all, and No 27 Be­lize (732) com­plete the list.