Nigeria still remain 42nd on FIFA ranking.

Can you believe despite the Super Eagles’ failure to
qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of
Nations, Nigeria remained on the 42nd
spot in FIFA world ranking released on
Thursday.
The national team also retained the
ninth position among African teams.
The Eagles had dropped five places to
42nd on the previous FIFA ranking for
the month which was released on
October 23. But the country will slip
further if they stay idle without quality
international matches from now and
through the 2015 Nations Cup.
Though they lost three spots to 18th
globally, Algeria remain number one in
Africa. They are followed by Tunisia,
which went nine places up to 22nd in
the world; and Cote d’Ivoire, which
gained one spot up to 24th.
Senegal went up six places to become
35th in world and fourth in Africa;
Ghana are fifth in Africa, even though
they fell two positions to 37th; Guinea
moved 17 places to claim the 38th
position in the world and sixth in
Africa.
The seventh and eighth positions in
Africa are filled by Cape Verde, which
went six places down to 39th, and
Cameroon, which went down one
place down to 41st position,
respectively. Both South Africa and
Congo, who qualified from Nigeria’s
Group A in the qualifiers for AFCON
billed for Equatorial Guinea in January,
went up the FIFA ranking.
South Africa shot six places up to the
51st position; while Congo went three
spots up to the 59th position.
There were no changes in the first six
spots on the FIFA ranking.
World champions, Germany retained
the number one position, followed by
Argentina in the second position, and
Colombia in the third.
Belgium remained fourth; Netherlands
fifth; and Brazil sixth. Portugal went
two places up to share the seventh
position with France, while Spain went
one spot up to the ninth position, while
Uruguay took the 10th position, having
dropped two places.
On the women’s ranking, USA
maintained the number one spot, while
Germany remained second, and Japan
third.
Nigeria’s Falcons fell one place to
35th position in the world, even though
they remained number one in Africa.
All the African women football teams
lost places on the latest ranking, with
Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea,
and South Africa, taking the second,
third, fourth and fifth positions in
Africa, respectively.