Nigeria’s Super Eagles retained her 39th position the World football governing body, FIFA, monthly ranking.
The formers African kings secured 1489.02 points to keep her place in August.
Nigeria however have slipped from fifth best team in Africa to six. They are currently trailing Morocco, Senegal, Egypt, Côte d’Ivoire and Tunisia.
Nigeria will hope to bounce to reckoning in the next round of matches of the 2025 AFCON qualifiers in November.
The Nigerian side also hope to win the remaining six games in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers when the qualification series resume in January.
Meanwhile, it is getting tighter at the summit. After respectively being beaten 2-1 away to Colombia and 3-1 at home to Italy, Argentina (1st) and France (2nd) will be looking nervously in their proverbial rear-view mirrors. Spain (3rd) and England (4th) are looming large in pursuit, with Brazil (5th) and Belgium (6th) hot on their heels. Yet, despite the tremors, the top ten remains unchanged, continuing to be rounded off by the Netherlands (7th), Portugal (8th), Colombia (9th) and Italy (10th).
The next FIFA Men’s World Ranking will be published on 24 October.
