Nearly four months have gone by since the last FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking came out, in which time more than 300 internationals have been played.
Nigeria’s senior national women’s football team, the Super Falcons have dropped three places from their previous status as the 38th ranked team in the world, according to the FIFA ranking released on Friday. The Super Falcons accrued a total of 1584.09 points, dropping 30.04 to drop to 41st in the latest ranking.
Below Nigeria in Africa, the top five with their world ranking are Cameroon (53rd), South Africa (56th), Ghana (57th), Cote D’Ivoire (61st) and Egypt (72nd).
Not only has the European qualifying competition for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 got under way but the qualifiers for next year’s AFC Women’s Asian Cup and CAF Women Africa Cup of Nations have also been taking place. And as you might have guessed, all that action has had quite an impact on the December World Ranking.
Things remain unchanged at the top, nonetheless, with USA (1st, -) retaining first place, a place it has occupied since 2017, and Sweden (2nd, -) and Germany (third, -) remaining second and third respectively.
But behind the three frontrunners it’s all change. France (4th, +1) has shifted up one place to fourth, leapfrogging Netherlands (fifth, -1), who has paid the value for latest outcomes in opposition to Czech Republic and Japan.Spain (ninth, +1) has additionally climbed up one rung on the ladder to maneuver into an all-time excessive of ninth, whereas Switzerland (seventeenth,+3) was the most important mover within the High 20, rising three locations to seventeenth.
In the meantime, no fewer than eight nations have joined the worldwide girls’s hierarchy, a few of them for the primary time (Niger, Sierra Leone and South Sudan) and others after a few years of absence (14 within the case of Benin and Liberia).
The subsequent FIFA Girls’s World Rating will probably be revealed on 25 March.
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