Cameroon 5th, Brazil 1st in New FIFA World Ranking

The ranking was released Thursday August 10, 2017.

 

African Champions Cameroon are 5th behind Egypt, DRC, Senegal and Tunisia.

Classification of first 13 African teams (World positions left)

25 Egypt

28 Congo DR

31 Senegal

34 Tunisia

35 Cameroon

38 Nigeria

47 Burkina Faso

48 Algeria

50 Ghana

54 Côte d'Ivoire

60 Morocco

65 Mali

66 South Africa

A special mention also goes to Namibia (136th, up 20), who were the month’s biggest climbers.

Brazil have returned to the top of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking after a one-month hiatus, replacing reigning FIFA World Cup champions Germany (2nd, down 1), who slipped back into second spot.

Argentina remain in third but the heavyweight trio are accompanied in the top five by two sides reaching unusually heady heights. Switzerland (4th, up 1) have not been ranked higher since the very first month of the World Ranking, while Poland (5th, up 1) are at an all-time high. Neither have dropped in the standings for 11 months.

Portugal (6th, down 2) make way for the pair, while Belgium (9th, up 1) are the only other climber within the top ten.

The CONCACAF Gold Cup was responsible for some major movement further down the table, with defeated finalists Jamaica (57th, up 19) accruing the most points over the month. Meanwhile, champions USA (26th, up 9), Costa Rica (21st, up 5) and Mexico (14th, up 2) all moved up the standings.

1st ten in the World

1 Brazil

2 Germany

3 Argentina

4 Switzerland

5 Poland

6 Portugal

7 Chile

8 Colombia

9 Belgium

10 France

The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on 14 September 2017.