Nigeria’s Super Eagles maintained 40th position in the latest FIFA Coca-Cola world ranking release on Thursday, completesports.com reports.
The world football governing body released the latest ranking on their website.
In Africa, the three-time African Cup of Nations winners occupy sixth place.
The Super Eagles’ match day one opponent in next month’s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier, Lesotho, dropped to 153rd spot.
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Zimbabwe, who will host the Super Eagles in match day two of the World Cup qualifiers remain at 125th.
Other teams in the Super Eagles World Cup qualifying group, South Africa, Rwanda and Benin Republic are 64th, 140th and 93rd respectively.
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NO 6 in AFRICA? With all the 16-0 WIN of SAO TOME..Na wa but this is poor na..I mean during GENERAL ROAR’S time there was a time we were NO 3 or so in AFRICA even when we played difficult teams and came out with hard grinding scoreline…
@Monkey Post:
We were expected to beat Sao Tome. You don’t get a bonus for beating teams you are expected to beat. That only helps you stay where you are. if we had faced and beaten teams above us in the ranking then a premium would be applied and we would have climbed.
Our next matches are against Zimbabwe and Lesotho, even if we beat them both ten nil we will not climb much because we are expected to beat them. We might climb, however, if the countries above us drop points and fall in the table
Ok thanks bro….I now understand..