FIFA Rankings: Super Eagles Slightly Rise

 

The Super Eagles, who were ranked 66th in FIFA rankings for two months have finally improved slightly after the team rose up three spots to 63rd place in the Fifa rankings released for February.

They are now the twelfth-ranked African side behind Cote d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, Algeria, Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia, Congo, Egypt, DR Congo, Guinea and Cameroon.

Ivory Coast remains the best ranked from the continent, the Elephants remain the number one country in Africa occupying but fell in the world ranking from 19th to 28th. Cape Verde is second after gaining six positions while Algeria and Ghana slot in at numbers three and four in the continent and 36 and 41 in the world.

With the current 20 best-ranked teams yet to play an A-game in 2016, the top 18 positions remain unchanged for the February edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking

 The three most impressive teams for February’s ranking all come from Asia: Palestine (110, plus 21), Saudi Arabia (55, plus 20) and Korea DPR (95, plus 18) enjoyed the biggest advances since the last world ranking.

Rwanda are the biggest mover from Africa as they move up six places to 85 in the latest ranking.
The Wasps won three of their six matches played since early January, while also closing out 2015 with a shock-upset over African heavyweights Côte d’Ivoire in an international friendly played on 16 December 2015.

World Ranking

1. Belgium (2) Argentina (3) Spain (4) Germany (5) Chile (6) Brazil (7) Portugal (8) Colombia (9) England
(10) Austria

African Raking

(1) Cote d’Ivoire (2) Cape Verde (3) Algeria (4) Ghana (5) Senegal (6) Tunisia (7) Congo (8) Egypt (9) Congo DR (10) Guinea (12) Nigeria.