Nigeria Climbs To 31 In FIFA Ranking, Senegal Is Africa’s Best At 20

Nigeria climbed four points in the latest FIFA ranking of countries which, however, showed that all top five spots remained.

Nigeria climbed to 31 position from the October ranking of 35 helped by recent international outings.

The country is also number three in Africa with Senegal the best in the continent at Number 20. Tunisia is second in Africa at 27.

However, the most impressive of the top climbers was Myanmar which was praised by FIFA for climbing 11 positions to 136!

The FIFA statement released on Thursday observed that there is only one change in the top ten, with Croatia (6th, up 1) climbing for the second successive edition at the expense of Portugal (7th, down 1). There are, however, more significant changes further down the table, with Italy (13th, up 2), Poland (19th, up 2), Serbia (29th, up 4) and Nigeria (31st, up 4) all pushing their way upwards.

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ qualifiers in Asia have also made an impression. Myanmar (136th, up 11), for example, are the only team to have advanced more than ten positions, having done so thanks to impressive wins over Nepal (170th, down 3), Tajikistan (121st, down 5) and Mongolia (190th, down 4). Kuwait (147th, up 9) have also made a substantial jump on the back of their fine results in the Qatar 2022 preliminaries.

Yet perhaps the most significant success story of this edition is Venezuela (25th, up 1). While their rise might be more modest than those of others, La Vinotinto – due largely to a recent friendly victory over Japan (28th, unchanged) – have now ascended to their highest position since the ranking was introduced in 1993.

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