Nigeria 38 spots ahead of Ghana on FIFA ranking for March 2024

Nigeria dropped two places (28-30) on the FIFA ranking for March 2024 but holds a healthy 38 spots gap on West African rivals, Ghana who occupy 68th spot.

In the rankings released on Thursday, April 4, 2024, by the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) the Nigeria men’s national team dropped to 30th place in the world.

In the month under review, Nigeria played two international friendly games, defeating Ghana 2-1 on March 22 before falling 0-2 vs Mali says later.

Argentina retained top-spot in the world, while France, Belgium, England and Brazil complete the top-five.

SEE TABLE OF TOP 100 NATIONAL TEAMS IN THE WORLD PER FIFA

RK	Team	Total Points	Previous Points	+/-	More
1	Argentina	1858	1855.2	+2.8
2	France	1840.59	1845.44	-4.85
3 1	Belgium	1795.23	1798.46	-3.23
4 1	England	1794.9	1800.05	-5.15
5	Brazil	1788.65	1784.09	+4.56
6 1	Portugal	1748.11	1745.06	+3.05
7 1	Netherlands	1742.29	1745.48	-3.19
8	Spain	1727.5	1732.64	-5.14
9	Italy	1724.6	1718.82	+5.78
10	Croatia	1721.07	1717.57	+3.5
11 2	USA	1681.13	1661.7	+19.43
12 2	Colombia	1664.28	1655.29	+8.99
13 1	Morocco	1661.42	1663.39	-1.97
14 1	Mexico	1661.11	1652.7	+8.41
15 4	Uruguay	1659.39	1665.99	-6.6
16	Germany	1644.21	1631.22	+12.99
17	Senegal	1624.73	1620.74	+3.99
18	Japan	1621.88	1614.33	+7.55
19	Switzerland	1616.41	1613.44	+2.97
20	IR Iran	1613.96	1608.23	+5.73
21	Denmark	1602.72	1601.31	+1.41
22 2	Ukraine	1568.86	1553.35	+15.51
23 1	Korea Republic	1563.99	1566.21	-2.22
24 1	Australia	1563.93	1554.82	+9.11
25	Austria	1554.86	1546.1	+8.76
26 1	Hungary	1532.2	1525.13	+7.07
27 1	Sweden	1531.68	1531.13	+0.55
28 2	Poland	1531.49	1520.24	+11.25
29	Wales	1531.38	1521.88	+9.5
30 2	Nigeria	1520.27	1522.26	-1.99
31	Ecuador	1518.22	1519.2	-0.98
32 1	Peru	1515.82	1512.68	+3.14
33 1	Serbia	1514.2	1517.43	-3.23
34 3	Qatar	1507.94	1499.34	+8.6
35 3	Russia	1504.02	1498.84	+5.18
36 4	Czechia	1501.47	1494.04	+7.43
37 1	Egypt	1499.72	1500.38	-0.66
38 1	Côte d’Ivoire	1498.8	1494.57	+4.23
39 5	Scotland	1497.46	1506.89	-9.43
40 5	Türkiye	1495.94	1505.28	-9.34
41	Tunisia	1493.12	1491.15	+1.97
42	Chile	1491.71	1489.82	+1.89
43	Algeria	1482.71	1480.24	+2.47
44 3	Mali	1477.9	1469.81	+8.09
45 1	Panama	1475.62	1475.62	–
46 1	Romania	1468.17	1472.73	-4.56
47 1	Norway	1467.51	1472.36	-4.85
48	Slovakia	1461.55	1465.73	-4.18
49 1	Canada	1461.16	1453.76	+7.4
50 1	Greece	1457.89	1453.95	+3.94
51	Cameroon	1452.59	1452.59	–
52 2	Costa Rica	1445.38	1437.57	+7.81
53	Saudi Arabia	1443.53	1441.4	+2.13
54 2	Venezuela	1442.29	1447.2	-4.91
55 2	Jamaica	1435.33	1421.54	+13.79
56	Paraguay	1430.73	1430.73	–
57 2	Slovenia	1427.84	1431.4	-3.56
58 1	Iraq	1420.47	1409.44	+11.03
59 1	South Africa	1407.67	1410.23	-2.56
60 2	Republic of Ireland	1399.74	1399.6	+0.14
61 1	Finland	1394.44	1401.31	-6.87
62 1	Burkina Faso	1390.38	1399.92	-9.54
63	Congo DR	1388.25	1388.25	–
64 2	Uzbekistan	1386.58	1376.5	+10.08
65	Cabo Verde	1383.44	1377.06	+6.38
66 2	Albania	1375.1	1382.69	-7.59
67 2	United Arab Emirates	1366.45	1355.55	+10.9
68 1	Ghana	1358.77	1363.42	-4.65
69 1	North Macedonia	1354.19	1362.17	-7.98
70 2	Montenegro	1351.72	1342.64	+9.08
71 1	Jordan	1350.21	1343.6	+6.61
72 1	Iceland	1346.82	1342.57	+4.25
73 1	Northern Ireland	1341.05	1333.17	+7.88
74 3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1335.6	1343.32	-7.72
75 2	Georgia	1333.76	1312.45	+21.31
76	Guinea	1324.65	1320.42	+4.23
77 3	Oman	1323.23	1307.6	+15.63
78 3	Israel	1311.39	1323.43	-12.04
79	Equatorial Guinea	1308.03	1310.5	-2.47
80 2	Bahrain	1307.53	1297.32	+10.21
81	El Salvador	1305.02	1306.14	-1.12
82 4	Honduras	1301.92	1311.43	-9.51
83	Bulgaria	1292.59	1289.9	+2.69
84	Gabon	1287.33	1289.52	-2.19
85 1	Bolivia	1283.88	1284.55	-0.67
86 1	Zambia	1278.26	1275.71	+2.55
87 2	Luxembourg	1277.94	1285.41	-7.47
88	China PR	1275.22	1273.78	+1.44
89	Syria	1266.52	1265.51	+1.01
90	Haiti	1262.5	1262.5	–
91	Curaçao	1262.48	1262.48	–
92	Uganda	1242.15	1246.88	-4.73
93 4	Palestine	1238.66	1227.2	+11.46
94 1	Angola	1235.76	1238.11	-2.35
95 1	Armenia	1229.18	1237.15	-7.97
96 1	Belarus	1226.54	1232.8	-6.26
97 1	Benin	1225.68	1225.1	+0.58
98 2	Trinidad and Tobago	1220.65	1228.05	-7.4
99	Tajikistan	1216.76	1218.89	-2.13
100 4	Kyrgyz Republic	1213.6

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