Zambia FIFA Rankings
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Zambia has moved 11 places up on the FIFA world monthly ranking following an impressive outing to the recent Orange Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.
According to the latest FIFA rankings released yesterday, Zambia leapt into 14th placing from 17 on the continental chart with a much improved stake globally on 73rd from 84th place.
The development is attributed to Zambia’s results at the Africa Cup of Nations that produced a 1-all draw with Tunisia, a 2-3 defeat to Cameroon, a 2-1 triumph over Gabon before losing 5-4 on penalties to Nigeria in the quarterfinal of the tournament.
Record-setting African champions Egypt have wrestled the African top slot from Cameroon who dropped into third place with Nigeria assuming the second position while Cote d’Ivoire occupy fourth place with Ghana completing the top five bracket.
Egypt managed to climb 14 places to tenth place on the global chart.
This is not only Egypt’s highest-ever position in the ranking, but also the second-highest of any African team since the introduction of the ranking. They have only been bettered by Nigeria, who reached fifth place in April 1994.
However, Malawi who produced the major upset at the competition beating World Cup finalists Algeria 3-0 at group stage are the biggest movers with 17 places to 82nd place.
Spain continues to top the global rankings with Brazil, Netherlands, Italy and Portugal making the top five.
Continental table
Country Africa World
Egypt 4 to 1 14 to 10
Nigeria 3 to 2 22 to 15
Ivory Coast 2 to 4 16 to 22
Cameroun 1 to 3 11 to 20
Ghana 6 to 5 34 to 27
Algeria 5 to 6 26 to 31
Zambia 17 to 14 84 to 73
South Africa 18 to 16 85 to 81
Angola 20 to 19 95 to 88.
posted @ 9:50 AM,
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