Nigeria still on top in Africa



Nigeria maintained their place as Africa's highest ranked team in Fifa's world rankings for November.

The Super Eagles dropped down one place in the overall rankings from 19 to 20.

Second-placed Cameroon also dropped one place from 23 to 24.

The biggest mover in Africa was Djibouti leaping 25 places on the world list after getting through the preliminary qualifying round of the World Cup.

Djibouti is now ranked at 48 on the Africa list, up from 52.


November 2007
(World rankings in brackets)

1. Nigeria (20)
2. Cameroon (24)
3. Guinea (33)
4. Ivory Coast (37)
5. Senegal (38)
6. Morocco (39)
7. Egypt (41)
8. Ghana (43)
9. Mali (46)
10. Tunisia (47)
11. Zambia (68)
12. Togo (72)
13. Angola (73)
14. Equatorial Guinea (74)
15. Mozambique (75)
16. South Africa (77)
17. DR Congo (80)
18. Algeria (81)
19. Zimbabwe (87)
20. Congo (92)
21. Uganda (94)
22. Libya (95)
23. Benin (97)
24. Kenya (100)
25. Botswana (102)
26. Tanzania (103)
27. Sudan (105)
28. Gabon (106)
29. Ethiopia (108)
30. Gambia (111)
31. Cape Verde Islands (112)
32. Burkina Faso (113)
33. Namibia (115)
34. Burundi (116)
35. Rwanda (119)
36. Eritrea (126)
37. Malawi (130)
38. Mauritania (130)
39. Chad (143)
40. Liberia (146)
41. Swaziland (151)
42. Madagascar (152)
43. Lesotho (154)
44. Sierra Leone (155)
45. Niger (158)
46. Mauritius (161)
47. Seychelles (165)
48. Djibouti (175)
49. Guinea-Bissau (181)
50. Comoros (186)
51. Central African Republic (191)
52. Somalia (194)
52. São Tomé e Príncipe (208)


FIFA.com

Updated.

Shocking that Ghana are only ranked 10th in Africa. And why in God's green earth is Angola ranked lower than Togo...they were outstanding in the Nations Cup qualifiers...certainly better than Togo.

^^ i think its ghana's losses to the likes of Saudi Arabia (no offense saudi's) 5-0 have dented their ranking. However Ivory Coast have a low world ranking i guess coz they haven't won many games lately in friendlies outside africa.

Guinea 3rd and Sudan 27th! That's interesting.

Updated.

these rankings change so fast i remember 5 years ago togo nd angola were nowhere to be seen and ghana had no sponsor. african football is making up ground and the old establishment of nigeria, south africa, tunisia, cameroon, and senegal has been totally knocked off in the past few years

these rankings jus goes to show how much I don't agree with the fifa rankings...its all bs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/7191645.stm



Just in case you all wanted to know

1. Nigeria (19)
2. Cameroon (25)
3. Guinea (33)
4. Egypt (35)
5. Ivory Coast (38)
6. Morocco (39)
7. Senegal (40)
8. Ghana (43)
9. Tunisia (46)
10. Mali (47)
11. Zambia (67)
12. DR Congo (70)
13. Angola (72)
14. Togo (74)
15. Mozambique (75)
16. Algeria (76)
17. South Africa (78)
18. Zimbabwe (83)
19. Equatorial Guinea (84)
20. Congo (89)
21. Ethiopia (90)
22. Libya (93)
23. Sudan (94)
23. Benin (94)
25. Uganda (97)
26. Tanzania (101)
26. Botswana (101)
28. Gabon (103)
29. Rwanda (109)
30. Cape Verde Islands (110)
31. Gambia (111)
32. Burkina Faso (112)
33. Mauritania (112)
34. Namibia (119)
35. Kenya (119)
36. Burundi (121)
37. Eritrea (134)
38. Malawi (137)
39. Chad (140)
40. Liberia (144)
41. Swaziland (148)
42. Madagascar (149)
43. Lesotho (154)
44. Niger (157)
45. Sierra Leone (159)
46. Seychelles (161)
47. Mauritius (164)
48. Guinea-Bissau (171)
49. Djibouti (173)
50. Central African Republic (181)
51. Comoros (191)
52. Somalia (195)

New Rankings:
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/...ullranking.html
Very very weird Egypt aren't even one of the top three. But best ever ranking for Ghana.

They can lick my arse about 45th. What a pisstake. Behind f*cking Senegal who didn't qualify for the f*cking competition, Japan, Northern Ireland, Norway, Paraguay and f*cking Belgium.

EDIT:- And just just 4 above f*cking Moldova?! WTF?! Are they seriously taking the piss? Seriously?

Great

Bloody Somalis. We can never get a result

wtf what more Egypt can do to have better rankings

Well this is a joke. Ghana gets 330 points, Cameroon get 114, Cote d'Ivoire gets 189 and Egypt gets 92. Interesting. Perhaps only the first round of the Nations Cup is taken into account as the ranking is for January only, but still if I memory is correct then we beat Cameroon 4-2 in the first match, and didn't lose any game - yet they get more than us. Let's wait and see what happens in the February rankings, because so far the FIFA rankings are nothing but a joke.

How can America be that high? They know fuck all about football, never mind playing it.

USA is at 26

this site is brilliant...i dont know how egypt are not in the top 20 right now...
http://www.eloratings.net/african_cup.html

FIFA have confirmed that all the matches in the African Cup of Nations have been taken into account, including the ones in February. In this case, they can kiss my ass. From now on the FIFA rankings rankings do not mean anything, they're complete bullshit. Fucking assholes.

We won CONCACAF's major tournament last summer.That's the main reason.
Btw, your petty country bashing isn't appreciated either.
Just for one week I'd like to hear no America-bashing.Guess I'm wishing the impossible.
Besides, FIFA rankings are bullshit and everybody knows it.If people haven't figured that one out by now they haven't been very observant.

Well Egypt just won CAF's major tournament last week, which in my opinion is a lot, a lot stronger than that of CONCACAF.

Wasn't me

I totally agree, that's why I think there is no point of arguing anymore about this topic.

FIFA's ways of deciding the rankings is abseloutely retarded. EGypt who have just won the
ACN for the 2nd time in a row without losing a game are placed at 29, while Cameroon who lost to them 2 times during the tournament are ranked at 17. Also Ghana who came 3rd in the tournament is placed at 14 and Ivory Coast who lost to Egypt as well in the semi final are placed at 24. In between even Israel is in a better ranking then Egypt. How is this possible... I cant be bothered with the rankings anymore. It's really retarded.

Dude, Paraguay leads the South American qualification for 2010 world cup, and pretty convincingly.

Really? Ah ok, apologies. But still, behind Senegal (who fly up the rankings), who didn't even qualify for the AFCON.

Somalia is pure utter cow shite

Egypt won CAN 2008 but they are in 8th position.