The Super Eagles of Nigeria sit at 47th position in the latest FIFA ranking released on Tuesday.

This means that the Eagles have move up 5 places from last month’s ranking where the Nigeria national team sat at 52nd.

Nigeria’s friendly matches against Poland and Serbia played a key role in their rise. Gernot Rohr’s men beat Poland in Wraclow, before losing 2-0 to Serbia in London.

In Africa, Tunisia is the highest ranked African team on 14th place with Senegal and DR Congo on 28 and 38 positions respectively. While Nigeria are now in the sixth position in the continent.

Overall, world champions Germany remain number one, with Brazil in second, Belgium are third, Portugal are in fourth and Argentina fifth.

In sixth position are Switzerland, France are in seventh, Spain in eight, Chile in ninth and Poland in 10th.
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