Nigeria Now Ranks 34th in FIFA World Ranking and 3rd in Africa

After the Supper Eagles of Nigeria made their way to the knock out stages of the world cup, it really gave them a boast in FIFA ranking, causing them to rise up 10 places from 44th to 34th in a new FIFA World Ranking released July 17th.


FIFA released the new list based on countries performance at the just concluded World Cup in Brazil. Nigeria went up 10 spots courtesy of the Super Eagles' second round finish at the World Cup.

The Super Eagles now rank third place in African continent after Algeria and Cote d'Ivoire who came 24th and 25th respectively on the World list.

World champions Germany was ranked number one on the list while Argentina was placed second and Netherlands 3rd. Colombia came 4th, Belgium 5th, Uruguay 6th, Brazil 7th, Spain 8th, Switzerland 9th and France 10th. Continue to see Africa ranking...

Top 10 in the world are:
1. Germany
2. Argentina
3. Netherland
4. Colombia
5. Belgium
6. Uruguay
7. Brazil
8. Spain
9. Switzerland
10. France


Ranking In Africa
1. Algeria
2. Cote d'Ivoire
3. Nigeria
4. Egypt
5. Ghana
6. Tunisia
7. Guinea
8. Cameroon
9. Burkina Faso
10. Mali 

7/17/2014