Nigeria drops to 40th position in latest FIFA rankings

Last updated Apr 7, 2023

Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, dropped five spots in the latest FIFA rankings to place 40th position.

According FIFA, the national team is now the sixth-best team in Africa, with Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt ahead of them.

However, Morocco, who made it to the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup, remain in the 11th spot globally, despite their win against Brazil. Brazil, on the other hand, has dropped to third place in the rankings, displaced from the top spot by the World Cup champions, Argentina.

The Super Eagles shock home defeat to lowly placed Guinea Bissau in Abuja contributed to the fall of the team and would have to get back to winning ways in the other fixtures to regain their status as one of Africa’s best.

The Central African Republic were the biggest movers in the latest rankings, jumping 10 places to 122nd.

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