I think FIFA has an internal problem that is disturbing their mental status.

How on earth can Nigeria drop to 4th in Africa and 34th in the world after playing 9 competitive matches without a loss?

How can Nigeria beat high-rated France and not move up?

Just look at the FIFA ranking:


Africa's Top 20
18 1 Ivory Coast
29 2 Cameroon
30 3 Gabon
34 4 Nigeria
35 5 Ghana
38 6 Egypt
47 7 Algeria
49 8 Tunisia
51 9 Burkina Faso
55 10 Morocco
57 11 Guinea
59 12 Mali
70 13 South Africa
71 14 Togo
75 15 Uganda
75 16 Libya
77 17 Zambia
80 18 Benin
81 19 Senegal
82 20 Mozambique

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well. . .if you manage two lousy draws and one win in 3 matches, you will get teams like Gabon riding over you. good riddance

In a situation like this
we dont really know
who to blame.

dominique:

well. . .if you manage two lousy draws and one win in 3 matches, you will get teams like Gabon riding over you. good riddance

couldn't ve said that better

Then Cameroon should be the last country in Africa because they've won no match

Argentina lost by a scandalous goal margin of 6 goals to win yet they are still among the top 10 teams in the world.

The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking

What counts towards the ranking?

The results of all international “A” matches contested by FIFA member associations are taken into account in the world ranking. The matches of an association’s youth teams or other representative sides have no influence. The FIFA Women’s World Ranking uses a separate system to determine the relative standings of women’s national teams.

Win, draw or defeat

The method of calculation places central importance on the result of each match by using the following customary points system:

Win 3 points Draw 1 point Defeat 0 points

To ensure that the formula is not only fair but also simple, matches that are decided by a penalty shoot-out
(which are considered draws under normal rules) result in the winning team receiving two points and the losing team one point.

Status of match

While World Cup matches carry a greater weighting than friendly fixtures to reflect their importance, it is important to acknowledge the importance of friendlies (and small regional tournaments) because they make up
50% of all the matches evaluated (during the 2002-2005 period, 25% of fixtures were World Cup qualifiers,
16% continental championship qualifiers, 7% continental championship final competitions and 2% World Cup final competitions).

The status of matches in different competitions is reflected by the following weighting multipliers:

Friendly match: 1.0; World Cup and continental championship qualifier: 2.5; continental final competition and
FIFA Confederations Cup: 3.0; World Cup final competition: 4.0

Strength of opponent

The opponents’ ranking is taken into account using the following formula: “[200 – ranking position]/ 100”. Only the team at the top of the ranking will be assigned the value 2.00 (teams ranked 150th and below are assigned the minimum weighting of 0.50).

Examples: team in 30th position in the ranking: [200 – 30] / 100 = 1.70; team ranked 85th: [200 -85] / 100 =
1.15; team ranked 122nd: [200 – 122] / 100 = 0.78

Regional strength

Assigning a weighting to take account of the comparative strengths of the different confederations is an essential element of the calculation of the ranking, because approximately 85% of all the international matches played are contested by two teams from the same confederations (2002-2005 figures).

Regional strength is calculated on the basis of the number of victories the teams representing the respective confederation have recorded in the last three final competitions of the FIFA World Cup™. For statistical reasons, the lowest possible weighting is 0.85 (weakest confederation) and the highest is 1.0 (strongest confederation). Confederations from which no teams have qualified for the World Cup finals (OFC) will be assigned the weighting of the weakest confederation.


Period assessed

Matches played during the last four years (48 months) are taken into account in the ranking. The considerable reduction in value of less recent matches ensures that a team’s latest successes have a much greater influence than earlier matches and the ranking therefore always reflects the latest developments in world football. Results during the last 12 months count in full, those from the previous year count half, while games played up to three and four years earlier have much less significant (100% - 50% - 30% - 20%).

Multiplication factor

To ensure that ranking points are always whole numbers, the final ranking points figure is always multiplied by
100.

True to God I don tire 4 our football authority and also those doing the whole stuff in FIFA.

FIFA is a bunch of morons.
They are a bundle of cheap scumbags!

Where do you think Nigeria deserves to be after drawing Madagascar and Tunisia

nigeria higher than ghana?
whtever they are using to calculate tht thing is faulty

dayokanu:

Where do you think Nigeria deserves to be after drawing Madagascar and Tunisia

1st place because we beat France

"True to God I don tire 4 our football authority and also those doing the whole stuff in FIFA."
Even me i don tire.

LWKMDFH. Where else do you think Nigeria should be rated? Drawing all the qualifiers while playing meaningless friendlies as the spirit leadeth? The days of 1/20 are over for good and unless something major happens like we win the AFCON and reach the World Cup semis (are we even going to qualify for these tourneys?), we're heading towards 10/50 where we can be with the likes of madagascar and andorra.