Nigeria Move Four Places Up in the Latest Fifa Rankings - April 2019

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have moved up four places to 42nd place in the new FIFA Ranking. 

 In the new ranking released by FIFA on Thursday, April 4, the Super Eagles moved up after two months in the 46th position.

With the new movement, Nigeria are now the third African country on the ranking with Senegal (23) and Tunisia (28) the only countries above the Super Eagles.

Other African countries, Morocco is placed (45) and Congo DR (46) make complete the top five while Ghana (49), Cameroon (54), Egypt (57), Burkina Faso (58) and Mali (65) complete the top 10.


The Super Eagles after the last ranking played two games which they won, the 3-1 win over Seychelles in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier and a friendly 1-0 win over Egypt both in Asaba in March. However, the results of the games played a little or no impact on this latest ranking. That means we hope Nigeria position to be better in the next ranking or so.

In the World Ranking, Belgium continue to lead followed by reigning world champions France and Brazil. See the list of top 100 countries in the latest ranking:

1 Belgium
2 France
3 Brazil
4 England
5 Croatia
6 Uruguay
7 Portugal
8 Switzerland
9 Spain
10 Denmark
11 Argentina
12 Colombia
13 Germany
14 Sweden
15 Chile
16 Netherlands
17 Italy
18 Mexico
19 Wales
20 Poland
21 Peru
21 IR Iran
23 Senegal
24 USA
25 Romania
26 Japan
27 Ukraine
28 Tunisia
29 Serbia
29 Venezuela
29 Republic of Ireland
32 Slovakia
33 Northern Ireland
34 Austria
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina
36 Paraguay
37 Korea Republic
38 Costa Rica
39 Turkey
40 Iceland
41 Australia
42 Nigeria
43 Greece
44 Scotland
45 Morocco
46 Congo DR
46 Russia
48 Czech Republic
49 Ghana
50 Norway
51 Bulgaria
51 Hungary
51 Montenegro
54 Cameroon
55 Qatar
56 Jamaica
57 Egypt
58 Burkina Faso
59 Ecuador
60 Finland
61 Honduras
62 Albania
63 Slovenia
63 Bolivia
65 Mali
65 Côte d’Ivoire
67 United Arab Emirates
68 FYR Macedonia
68 Guinea
70 Algeria
71 El Salvador
72 Saudi Arabia
73 South Africa
74 Panama
74 China PR
76 Cape Verde Islands
76 Iraq
78 Canada
79 Uganda
79 Zambia
81 Belarus
82 Curacao
83 Syria
84 Israel
85 Uzbekistan
86 Luxembourg
86 Lebanon
86 Oman
89 Cyprus
90 Gabon
91 Benin
92 Congo
93 Trinidad and Tobago
94 Georgia
95 Kyrgyz Republic
96 Estonia
97 Jordan
98 Vietnam
99 Palestine
100 Haiti