Nigeria drop in FIFA rankings

Nigeria dropped six places to 23 in the monthly FIFA Rankings but still kept their place as Africa's second best ranked team, behind Cameroon, who also dropped two places.

Africa's top five sides all saw dips in their rankings and it was no different from the continent's champions Egypt who lost a massive 15 places to 30th in the world rankings.

But they also kept their third place on the continent.

Ghana also fell a long way down by 10 places to 35th position. Nigeria's World Cup qualifying group rivals Tunisia dropped 8 places to 53 with Kenya dropping 12 places to 96th in the world.

Mozambique were the only one of Nigeria's rivals to pick up points and the climbed one place above Kenya to 95th in the world.

Africa's Top 20
16 1 Cameroon 
23 2 Nigeria 
30 3 Egypt 
35 4 Ghana 
36 5 Ivory Coast 
41 6 Morocco 
45 7 Guinea 
47 8 Mali 
53 9 Tunisia 
60 10 Senegal 
62 11 Burkina Faso 
63 12 Gabon 
66 13 Algeria 
69 14 Congo 
70 15 South Africa 
71 16 Uganda 
73 17 Gambia 
75 18 Angola 
80 19 Libya 
81 20 Benin