NIGERIA RANKS 37TH BEST IN THE WORLD BEHIND THE LIKES OF IRAN & ALGERIA

African champions, Nigeria have dropped one place in the latest rankings released by World Football governing body, Fifa.

The Super Eagles notched up 730 ranking points but are now ranked 37th in the World and fourth in Africa in the latest rankings released on Thursday. The Ivory Coast, Ghana and Algeria who were all unmoved from the rankings for November are the three African countries higher placed than Nigeria in December’s rankings.

Nigeria’s highest position in the rankings is fifth, a feat which was achieved in 1994.

Spain remains at the summit of the World rankings for December with 1507 points while Germany, Argentina, Colombia and Portugal complete the top five places in the latest

See the best ranked 30 teams after the cut........................



Rnk  Team           Pts
1 Spain         1507
2 Germany         1318
3 Argentina   1251
4 Colombia         1200
5 Portugal         1172
6 Uruguay         1132
7 Italy           1120
8 Switzerland 1113
9 Netherlands 1106
10 Brazil         1102
11 Belgium         1098
12 Greece         1055
13 England         1041
14 USA         1019
15 Chile         1014
16 Croatia              971
17 Côte d'Ivoire     918
18 Ukraine           907
19 Bosnia & H   899
20 France           893
21 Mexico           892
22 Russia           870
23 Ecuador            852
24 Ghana           849
25 Denmark           831
26 Algeria           800
27 Sweden           793
28 Czech R            766
29 Slovenia           762
30 Serbia           752