When are we ever going to be among the first 10 in the world?

What criteria is used to place Belgium on top?

WibusJaga:


Nigeria 36th in the world & 5th in Africa.
Wonder if ever we will get to our highest ever ranking of 5th in the world. Feat achieved after USA'94 exploits.

Fifa rankings are meaningless nonsense

Cashsteady:
How England keep making top position suprise me... If you have watched Germany and Spain you will know this countries plays better than England.. England were just fortunate to beat germany in the euros.. Germany played their life... Too me I think England is just an overrated country not only football almost everything they are overrated

Do you even know what you're saying, if they were just fortunate to beat Germany then they should be fortunate to be above them in the ranking (by your analysis), you said England are not good but only overrated yet they reach world cup semis and Euros final, brother where your Germany and Spain reach for those 2 tournaments?

Coldie:
The top 20 countries are not in Africa, why?

Cause na person way don chop dae go play ball

Senegal is 20 nah!

Chekam wella!

foleskay:
I wonder why Belgium keeps retaining d top position despite losing to France at d nation league semi final..and also to italy at euro quarters final.
I rate spain and france higher than Belgium. Dem don drop form

Belgium are a top top team, and about losing to France etc recently, it will take time to reflect and that's why they didn't gain any points. You can check how they assign the points to get better understanding.

gistray:
USA 13? How?

Honestly, I wonder pass u sef!

We're talking football oo, not other sports or games!

USA dt has neva had any significant impact in football in any tournament, be it domestic or foreign! Haba!

We know even see Liberia 4 d ranking!

E be like say, their footballing prowess don droop kpatakpta!

Wetin Mexico dey play when them take pass Germany for ranking??

I don't understand this mixture.

obembet:
Still wonder What keeps Belgium is ever in top there really, but if their domestic top league even unpopular and they win what for the country. This really one strange thing that can't change but why

mynd44

[color=#000000][/color] FIFA gotta be kidding me � how can Belgium be the 1st on the ranking for over 4yrs without nothing to showoff �

There are things that aren't clear to us FIFA should coman explain pls

Coldie:
The top 20 countries are not in Africa, why?

Cause na person way don chop dae go play ball

Eyes dey pain you ni?? No be Senegal you dey see for nō 20

Kingcalls:
U no see am..Next thing messi fans go tell us say copa is next to world cup... top 20 , only 3 South American teams.... messi suppose don win that copa at least 3to 4 times if he was as good as they claim... look at tournament that his fans are using to tell us he deserves balon dor tournament wey naa only Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Colombiano even reach Switzerland wey never see semi final for their Euros history... Argentina will not pass round of 16 in Euros
Iran and Chile de drag position ... Chile wey be like South American spain

If France, Italy or Germany enter copa, them go turn am to wetin bayern de do for bundesliga

You are wicked

Infantino visited Nigeria recently ,hence the upward movement. He has taken INEC software on how to manipulate results. Nigeria? Who dash monkey banana.
Super vulture claiming to be eagles.

Rubbish ranking. Why should Belgium remain at the top of the log is what I can't fathom. Belgium that failed to reach finals in all competitions for the last 5 years is still topping, no be juju be that?

Please oo My Nigeria can not go back to 36, Nigeria at 61, make una no carry our age go back because of football.

They ranked us according to number of States.

WibusJaga:


Nigeria 36th in the world & 5th in Africa.
Wonder if ever we will get to our highest ever ranking of 5th in the world. Feat achieved after USA'94 exploits.

Presently, no African team can get a top 5 ranking in the nearest future... unless it wins the World Cup.

The Super Eagles of WC94 were great but in reality they weren't actually the "Fifth Best Team In The World".

The number 5 ranking by the Super Eagles is a feat that will always be difficult to surpass because of the way the FIFA ranking system was then; 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points if a team loses in FIFA sanctioned matches.

A simplistic scoring system, but flawed in the sense that teams are of different strengths hence wins/losses cannot be accurately correlated.


The modern scoring system takes care of these factors by introducing coefficients into the scoring system.

From December '92 (when the scoring system began) till September '94 (about the time we got to 5th) Westerhof's Super Eagles were red hot on the African continent and also had a decent win:loss ratio at the World Cup (2:2).

Their only loss was against Ivory Coast in April '93). They had 8 wins and 2 draws within that period at the AFCON '94 and during the WCQ '94.

8 wins, 2 draws and a single loss. Few teams in the World could boast of such a winning streak in their various federations. This performance was followed up by a good WC94 outing (2:2).

The losses in pre-World Cup friendlies (0-2 to Romania, 1-3 to Sweden) weren't FIFA sanctioned matches so they did not count.

And that is the story behind why Super Eagles became the 5th best team in the World and also the reason why no other African team may ever reach that height.

WibusJaga:


Nigeria 36th in the world & 5th in Africa.
Wonder if ever we will get to our highest ever ranking of 5th in the world. Feat achieved after USA'94 exploits.

Until you stop losing to CAR and MADAGASCAR

Otunski:
Rubbish ranking. Why should Belgium remain at the top of the log is what I can't fathom. Belgium that failed to reach finals in all competitions for the last 5 years is still topping, no be juju be that?

It's about the no of games won not final reached

MASTERMIND04:
When are we ever going to be among the first 10 in the world?

Start winning against teams above you

2. Stop losing to teams below you

3. You lose more points if no 2 keep happening to you

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femi4:
Start winning against teams above you

2. Stop losing to teams below you

3. You lose more points if no 2 keep happening to you

Okay o.
God help us

So called Belgium that is maintaining first position is just there without any accomplishment. I don't know why FIfa keep recognising them as number one, cos when it matters most they will disappoint you. Just imagine how they lost to France in Euro Nations league semi finally.

WibusJaga:


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femi4:
It's about the no of games won not final reached

The number of games won as well as the quality of the opposition.

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slex:
Abeg how is USA always in this top 20

I guess the ranking is for football alone.
Most likely, all sports are considered.