FIFA Ranking: Ghana out of top ten teams in Africa

Ghana have seen declined in the latest FIFA rankings on the African continent released by the World football governing body.

In a release by FIFA on Thursday, February 10, the Black Stars lost 47.52 points to go down in the rankings.

Ghana in the 2021 December rankings accumulated 1428.97 points but had gathered 1381.45 points in February’s release.

This means the four times African champions missed out of the top ten best male national team on the continent with Burkina Faso, who finished fourth at the 2021 AFCON taking Ghana’s place.

Reigning African champions, Senegal who moved two steps from 20^th to 18^th position in the World ranking maintained their number one position in Africa with Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt and Tunisia completing the top five.

The 2019 African champions, Algeria dropped from third to seventh with AFCON hosts Cameroon moving one step up from seventh to sixth. Mali, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso follow in that order to complete the top 10 on the continent in the latest rankings.

In the World rankings, Ghana however dropped nine places from 52^nd position to 61st in the rankings following the Black Stars’ abysmal display at the Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.

The Black Stars for the first time in the history of the country failed to win a game at the Nations Cup and were booted out of the tournament at the group stages.

The next FIFA Coca-Cola World rankings will be published on March, 31, 2022.