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  • FIFA Rankings: Super Eagles drop to fifth in Africa

    FIFA Rankings: Super Eagles drop to fifth in Africa

    Nigeria’s Super Eagles have dropped  eight places in the latest FIFA rankings released in the month of June.

    Super Eagles moved to 38th globally following a dismal outing in the race for the 2026 World Cup.

     

    Recall Nigeria lost to the Benin Republic for the first time and had before then drawn South Africa – all games in the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers for Africa – leaving their hopes of qualifying for the mundial a difficult task.

     

    In FIFA’s latest ranking released on Thursday, the Super Eagles are now 5th in Africa, falling two steps behind on the continental pecking order.

    Morocco moved up one place as the best team in Africa, placing 12th globally. They are followed by Senegal (18th), Egypt (36th), and Cote d’Ivoire (37th) in second, third, and fourth respectively on the continental rankings.

     

    Argentina, France, Belgium, Brazil, and England in that order occupy the first five positions globally.

  • Explainer: Why Super Eagles dropped two places in latest FIFA rankings

    Explainer: Why Super Eagles dropped two places in latest FIFA rankings

    The FIFA Rankings have officially released by world football governing body FIFA for March 2024, with some interesting developments from the African nations.

    Nigeria’s Super Eagles have experienced a slight setback in the latest FIFA ranking, dropping two spots from 28th to 30th in the world.

    The drop comes in the wake of the team’s performances during the recent international break, where they faced off against the Black Stars of Ghana and the Eagles of Mali in friendly matches.

    While they secured a victory against Ghana in the much-anticipated ‘Jollof Derby’ with a 2-1 scoreline, they suffered a defeat to Mali in Morocco.

    The Atlas Lions occupy 13th spot in the world but retain pole position on the continent, followed by Senegal who are 17th in the world and second in Africa.

    African champions, Cote d’Ivoire move up to 38th in the world and take up the fifth spot on the continent, just behind fourth placed Egypt who are 37th in the world.

    North African powerhouses, Tunisia and Algeria remain 41st and 43rd respectively on the global rankings and are followed by Mali who moved three places up to 44.

    The top three nations in the world are world champions, Argentina followed by France and Belgium in third.

  • Nigeria’s Super Falcons drop two places in FIFA rankings

    Nigeria’s Super Falcons drop two places in FIFA rankings

    Despite emerging as the best female team in Africa, the Super Falcons of Nigeria dropped two places in the latest FIFA ranking released on Friday morning.

    The Super Falcons who were ranked 32nd best team in the world the previous month have now dropped two places to 34th position in the world.

    However, they maintain their position as Africa’s number one.

    The West Africans recorded impressive results in the 2024 Olympics and Women’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Ethiopia and Cape Verde but it was not enough to improve their position on the ranking.

    Super Falcons posted a good performance at the last women World Cup finishing top of their group but lost gallantly on penalties to the three Lionesses of England in the second round.

    Meanwhile, Reigning women’s world champions Spain end the year as the number one ranked team, which is their first-ever feat.

    At number two is former FIFA women’s World Cup winners USA, France are third, England maintained fourth and Sweden dropped to fifth.

    The next FIFA women’s world ranking will be published in January.

  • Super Eagles drop one place in latest FIFA rankings

    Super Eagles drop one place in latest FIFA rankings

    The Super Eagles of Nigeria has  dropped a place in the latest monthly FIFA rankings released on Thursday, TheNewsGuru.com can exclusively report.

    Recall that Jose Peseiro’s side thrashed Sao Tome and Principe 6-0 in the last AFCON qualifiers but the result didn’t have any positive effect on their position on the ranking table.

    The Super Eagles, however, maintained sixth position in Africa and 40th in the world.

    The Carthage Eagles of Morocco overtook Senegal on the top spot and have since retained its position.

    The North Africans are followed by the Terangha Lions of Senegal, Carthage Eagles of Tunisia, Desert Foxes of Algeria and Pharaohs of Egypt.

    World champions Argentina retained their number one position on the ranking.

    France, Brazil, England and Belgium complete the top five teams in the world.

  • Super Falcons ranked 45th best female team in the world

    Super Falcons ranked 45th best female team in the world

    The Super Falcons of Nigeria have been ranked 45th best footballing team in the world according to the last FIFA -CocaCola Women’s World Ranking of the year.

    This is the second time in a roll that Super Falcons will be ranked 45th.

    The latest ranking released on Friday as seen on the website of the world football governing body, is the final list for the year 2022.

    The US national team is ranked number 1 in the world followed by the German female football team.

    Nigeria’s Super Falcon’s 45th position is the highest for Africa.

    Sweden dropped to the third position from second place and England and France sit in fourth and fifth place respectively.

    For Africa, South Africa come second in 54th place, Cameroon take 58th place, Ghana following closely in 59th position and Cote d’Ivoire in 65th position

  • Super Eagles drop in FIFA rankings

    Despite humiliating Sao Tome 10-0 and Sierra Leone by 2-1 Nigeria’s  Super Eagles  have dropped one place  in the  FIFA world rankings for the Month of June.

    The Super Eagles are now are now ranked 31st in the world as against its previous position of 30th and 3rd best in Africa.

    Recall that Nigeria climbed up to the  30th  position in March after the country featured at AFCON 2021.

    However, Jose Peseiro’s side are currently the 4th best team in Africa, while the Teranga Lions of Senegal are number one in Africa and now the 18th best team in the world.

    Behind Senegal are Morocco, the second-best team in Africa, while Tunisia are the third-best team in Africa.
    WorldCup bound Tunisia overtook Nigeria to climb to the third position on the African continent and moved to 30th in the world.

    Behind Nigeria are Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria and Mali in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth place, respectively.

    Brazil retains  the number one position in the world and closely followed by Belgium, Argentina, France, England, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark, making the top 10.

    Others that made the list from 11-20 positions are Germany, Mexico, Uruguay, USA, Croatia, Switzerland, Colombia, Senegal, Wales and Sweden.

    This is the first time in 5 years that Two South American football giants Brazil and Argentina will make the top three in world rankings.

  • Super Eagles climb up in FIFA rankings

    Super Eagles climb up in FIFA rankings

    Despite missing out of the qualification to Qatar 2022 Worldcup the Super Eagles of Nigeria has moved up in world ranking.

    The latest FIFA rankings shows Nigeria moving up two places, from 32nd the last time to 3oth.

    Senegal maintains its top spot position in Africa but dropped two points in world ranking.

    Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria and Egypt make up the first five teams in Africa whilst Cameroon, Algeria, Mali, Ivory coast and Burkina Faso completes the first 10.

    However, Brazil has overtaken Belgium as the number one team in the world, with the Red Devils settling for the second spot. France follow in third while Argentina and England complete the top five globally. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Netherlands are all in the top 10.