Symphony007: England will never leave the top 10 or even 5 because they're the most powerfull nation in FIFA..they invented the game of football for crying out loud. But i think nigeria deserves to be higher than 30. It just does'nt make any sense!!

Jarus: many people don't know how this works.

FIFA ranking is based on performance over a number of years(don't know exactly, but probably 3 years or 36 months).

The older the month, the lower the weight and the most recent carries more weight. Each month also weighed based on importance of match - more weigh for comptetitive, less for friendlies


So assuming

February 2013 - 36 points
January 2013 - 35 points
December 2012 - 34 point
November 2012 - 33 point


goes on till say
May 2010 - 3 point
April 2010 - 2 point
March 2010 - 1 point


Next month (March 2013), February becomes 35 and March becomes 36, while April 2010 becomes last month (1 point).

Now, Nigeria did not qualify for 2012 ANC and had 0 (or few points if it played and won/drew friendlies) in those months. Mali had points (remember they came 3rd in that tourney).

So if you aggregate those not-too-old good performance, Mali has an edge. Nigeria has good weight in recent performance but may not be enough to neutralize recent poor performances. But the good thing is the value of teh old bad performance reduces with time.

And in any case, I think this current rating was up to January 31st (when we had only played the group matches - 2 draws, 1 win). So it may not include the QF, SF and Final wins (played in February) yet.

tcalc: now lets leave out the insults. your post is inadequate. now u're trying to go here and there to justify your warped way of thinking. it'll be better for u to shut up rather than make ur inadequacies more blatant.

Hon. Lord:
[color=#990000][/color]Until we learn to always do the right things, we will remain at the botom bellow our lower ties.

How can a country like Nigeria with over 150million citizens not be able to produce 7 different qualified teams to with-stand and represent Nigeria in a tournament? What a shame caused by corruption and zoning of everything including interlect which God has given to some persons to manage others!!!!!!!!

Afam4eva:
Is there any logic behind England been higher than portugal in the rankings? Portugal has achieved more than they have.

yorke1: Damn FIFA with this lastest ranking. What is common Ghana doing ahead of Nigeria(The pride of Africa). Fuuuuuuuuck u FIFA!

ROSSIKE:

So what were the good performances by Montenegro?

bigtt76: Well ...two consecutive AFCON bronze medals earned them the points. We missed out of last edition and lost vital points. I guess this explains it all. More matches you play, more points.

jadakiss213: this ur assertion is so wrong.how is England the most powerful nation in FIFa? u really dont know much bou world football.

agabaI23: I think the influence of our win will be reflected in the March Ranking because the Feb ranking was based on January performances of the countries. You can agree with me that most of the countries above us now like CV, Mali and Ghana were still doing very well in the competition. We eliminated both Mali and CV in Feb. Ghana was also eliminated in Feb.

gudugudumeje: As Nigeria no get anything good to report beta ranking for other than corruption and abject living standard for its people, clinging to FOOTBALL ranking is anoda sport for spoiling the future of nigeria..... Goodluk to the poor country in bad lucks......

blank:

Do you know anything about football at all? First do a little research on how FIFA calculate the rankings then you will understand.

ahidjo: [b]

All games they played in South Africa have been factored in. Every game played by every country till February 13, 2013 were used for the ranking. I will advise Nigerians to learn to read and research. The level of ignorance here is baffling. The criteria for the ranking is there and not meant to favor anybody. One needs to think through the ranking procedures and understand how this works. A lot of folks already knew that Nigeria would be 4th in Africa with 747 points even before the ranking came out today. FIFA makes it possible for anybody to calculate the total points for any country for the month even before the ranking is announced. It is there in the website. The ranking is not by emotions or sentiments. It is by Mathematical calculations that weighs a number of factors including, type of game played (Qualifier, friendly, Continental cup, world cup, etc), whether you win draw or tie. They also compute a lot of averages to arrive at final point for the month. That is how things are scientifically done especially in serious and advanced societies. Winning AFCON does not automatically push Nigeria to first position in Africa. I felt the urge to write this because despite the availabilty of internet resources, most Nigerians always take delight in proudly displaying their ignorance which some people accept as intelligent contribution. [/b]

Ejiné:

No dear. It is you who needs to permanently shut up, now that you've been shamed.

Where in that particular post you quoted did I say anything about FIFA ranking? Mehn, you're a true dullard, and there's no hiding it.

Please go bury your face in shame for trying to project your poor sense comprehension on others.

ahidjo: [b]

All games they played in South Africa have been factored in. Every game played by every country till February 13, 2013 were used for the ranking. I will advise Nigerians to learn to read and research. The level of ignorance here is baffling. The criteria for the ranking is there and not meant to favor anybody. One needs to think through the ranking procedures and understand how this works. A lot of folks already knew that Nigeria would be 4th in Africa with 747 points even before the ranking came out today. FIFA makes it possible for anybody to calculate the total points for any country for the month even before the ranking is announced. It is there in the website. The ranking is not by emotions or sentiments. It is by Mathematical calculations that weighs a number of factors including, type of game played (Qualifier, friendly, Continental cup, world cup, etc), whether you win draw or tie. They also compute a lot of averages to arrive at final point for the month. That is how things are scientifically done especially in serious and advanced societies. Winning AFCON does not automatically push Nigeria to first position in Africa. I felt the urge to write this because despite the availabilty of internet resources, most Nigerians always take delight in proudly displaying their ignorance which some people accept as intelligent contribution. [/b]

blank:

Do you know anything about football at all? First do a little research on how FIFA calculate the rankings then you will understand.

chingyjant:
Though i like your explanation but i beg to disagree.Many soccer pundits and administrators are still questioning the rationale behind this ranking.There are some countries that you and i know that they hardly play friendly matches.Mind you FIFA do grade the friendly matches played.A good example is Mali and some funny European countries way ahead of Nigeria.They barely play FIFA Grade A matches and even if they play they dont win.When it comes to major competitions they don't qualify or get eliminated in group stages still yet they are ahead of Nigeria.Even though for the past 8 years that our football has plunged we still qualify for AFCON and subsequent world cup,play a couple of friendlies but some of these countries that are ahead of Nigeria don't qualify for world cup,they don,t even do well in their continental football so i will like you to rescind your opinion of NLanders being myopic as pertaining to FIFA ranking

tcalc: haha,and how have u proved it that the friendlies will be meant to boost the SE chances of qualifying, it'll cost u nothing to admit ur clueless post and try to reason better before putting up silly text on the screen ok. or have u been kidding me all the way?

Ejiné:

You're a total dunce, and this second post of yours just erased whatever doubts I had initially.
Hosting friendlies with bigger teams would help develop the much-needed CONFIDENCE in the build-up to next year's World Cup and not just for FIFA rankings, you dumbass. Read my post again if you have difficulties comprehending, or call family members to also help do it for you.

Frostyzone:

Dude, stop embarrassing yourself. Did you know that Mali was 25th in the world and the 3rd ranked team in Africa, even before the Afcon began?

Nigeria on the other hand, weren't even at the top 50(We were 52nd).

Nigeria then jumped 22 paces, mainly because of their Afcon success, and people like you still have the audacity to question legity of the ranking system.

What did you expect? For Nigeria to magical jump 40 paces and automatically make it to the top ten, abi?

Really, sometimes some people don't make use of their reasoning faculty at all!

Havilah93: ...what baffles me is how Mali still manages to be ahead of us in 25th

ahidjo: [b]

All games they played in South Africa have been factored in. Every game played by every country till February 13, 2013 were used for the ranking. I will advise Nigerians to learn to read and research. The level of ignorance here is baffling. The criteria for the ranking is there and not meant to favor anybody. One needs to think through the ranking procedures and understand how this works. A lot of folks already knew that Nigeria would be 4th in Africa with 747 points even before the ranking came out today. FIFA makes it possible for anybody to calculate the total points for any country for the month even before the ranking is announced. It is there in the website. The ranking is not by emotions or sentiments. It is by Mathematical calculations that weighs a number of factors including, type of game played (Qualifier, friendly, Continental cup, world cup, etc), whether you win draw or tie. They also compute a lot of averages to arrive at final point for the month. That is how things are scientifically done especially in serious and advanced societies. Winning AFCON does not automatically push Nigeria to first position in Africa. I felt the urge to write this because despite the availabilty of internet resources, most Nigerians always take delight in proudly displaying their ignorance which some people accept as intelligent contribution. [/b]

ahidjo: [b]

All games they played in South Africa have been factored in. Every game played by every country till February 13, 2013 were used for the ranking. I will advise Nigerians to learn to read and research. The level of ignorance here is baffling. The criteria for the ranking is there and not meant to favor anybody. One needs to think through the ranking procedures and understand how this works. A lot of folks already knew that Nigeria would be 4th in Africa with 747 points even before the ranking came out today. FIFA makes it possible for anybody to calculate the total points for any country for the month even before the ranking is announced. It is there in the website. The ranking is not by emotions or sentiments. It is by Mathematical calculations that weighs a number of factors including, type of game played (Qualifier, friendly, Continental cup, world cup, etc), whether you win draw or tie. They also compute a lot of averages to arrive at final point for the month. That is how things are scientifically done especially in serious and advanced societies. Winning AFCON does not automatically push Nigeria to first position in Africa. I felt the urge to write this because despite the availabilty of internet resources, most Nigerians always take delight in proudly displaying their ignorance which some people accept as intelligent contribution. [/b]

Jarus:

I tire o.

I wonder what they want Egypt to rank in 2010, after winning three consecutive AFCONS (2006, 2008 and 2010). Maybe Egyptians should be expecting No 1 in the world then.

Ejiné: Mehn, I think NFF should grow some cojones and set us up on friendlies with 'the big guys' like Germany, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Portugal etc.

Phuck it. It's not like they're untouchable. They're not gods. They can still lose matches!
I really have a lot of faith in our boys now.

With confidence, we won't lose. Kpata kpata na draw!