Median FIDE standard rating

RecordSTO-FIDE_MEDIA-N_GLOBAL_2-02609

1,710Elo

Global · September 2026

Median FIDE standard rating worldwide was 1,710 Elo in September 2026 (FIDE).

Original source

Download the official FIDE rating list (standard_rating_list.zip)

Median FIDE standard rating: every country and year, and how it is measured

Publisher
FIDE
Authority tier
T2 Official
Locator
SEP26 median
Retrieved
18 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

The median SEP26 standard rating on the September 2026 FIDE list is 1710 (mean 1738.9; 90th percentile 2045).

Checked: the figure 1,710 Elois stated in this passage. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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APA

World Chess Federation. (2026). FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard_rating_list.zip. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_median_global_202609

Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
MLA
World Chess Federation. "FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026." 2026, https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard_rating_list.zip. Accessed 18 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_median_global_202609.
Chicago
World Chess Federation. "FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026." 2026. https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard_rating_list.zip. Accessed September 18, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_median_global_202609.
BibTeX
@misc{fide2026fide202609, author = {{World Chess Federation}}, title = {FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_fide_median_global_202609}, note = {Original source: https://ratings.fide.com/download/standard\_rating\_list.zip. Accessed September 18, 2026.} }

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Provenance and verification

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Chain of custody
Record: STO-FIDE_MEDIA-N_GLOBAL_2-02609 T2 Official

Primary source

Publisher
World Chess Federation · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 2 · National and industry official
Report
FIDE Standard Rating List — September 2026
Type
Dataset
Published
15 September 2026
Locator
SEP26 median
Retrieved
18 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
See source

Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
18 September 2026
Last revision
18 September 2026
Permanent URL
/stat/stat_fide_median_global_202609