An Index of Superiority for the Most Famous International Football Teams

In this research, we propose a sports indicator to measure the historical performance of any sports team. By applying one of the cases of Markov chains through the state of equilibrium to the results of the historical matches that the team contributed to (win, draw, loss), and then applying this indicator to a selection of the most famous international football teams. It is noted from this study that Brazil historically ranked first in football, followed by Spain, then England, then Argentina, then Italy, then Germany, then the Netherlands, then Portugal, then Denmark, then Belgium. As a general summary of this study, it is a unique study at the level of the university and Iraq, in which we touched on the role of mathematics and its applications in the field of football. Role in the development of this effectiveness, and stand on the treatment of problems and decision-making