Black Stars drop out of top 50 nations in September FIFA ranking
The Black Stars of Ghana have dropped out of the top 50 countries in
the FIFA World Rankings to 52nd place in the list released for the month
of September on Thursday.
However, the Stars improved from ninth place in the August ranking to
become the eight best team on the African continent for September.
The senior national team were ranked the 50th best team in the world in the August rankings
and it appears a 1-1 draw at home to Congo Brazzaville in the FIFA
World Cup qualifiers affected their slump on the overall rankings. They
also defeated the Congolese 5-1 away in the reverse fixture.
Egypt retained their place as Africa’s highest ranked team in the
world despite slipping five places to 30th place in the overall ranking.
Germany returned to the summit of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking,
continuing this year’s ongoing tug-of-war with Brazil for top spot.
The reigning world champions edged ahead of A Seleção following two
impressive FIFA World Cup™ qualifying victories over Czech Republic and
Norway, and head a table much changed after the recent Russia 2018
preliminaries.
Belgium, for example, have climbed four places to enter the top five
on the back of qualifying for next year’s finals. Portugal, for their
part, are up three to third and, further down, no fewer than 23 teams
jumped ten places or more.
Among the most notable climbers are the Cape Verde Islands (67, up
47), Luxembourg (101, up 35), Bolivia (46, up 22) and Denmark (26, up
20), this on the back of stunning results in qualifying against South
Africa, France, Chile and Poland respectively.
Luxembourg are also one of four teams to have reached an all-time
high position in the latest Ranking, along with Peru (12, up 3),
Northern Ireland (20, up 3) and Syria (75, up 5).
The Bolivians, meanwhile, number among five new entries to the top
50, where they are joined by Montenegro (37, up 15), Bulgaria (38, up
14), Scotland (43, up 15) and Haiti (48, up 7).
The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on 16 October 2017.
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