{"id":78999,"date":"2025-11-20T05:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78999"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:26:22","slug":"nigeria-rise-to-38th-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/20\/nigeria-rise-to-38th-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Rise to 38th in Latest FIFA Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria have climbed three spots to 38th in the latest FIFA men\u2019s world ranking released on Wednesday, despite failing to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The rise follows a 4-1 win over Gabon and a 1-1 draw with DR Congo, which ended in a 4-3 penalty defeat in the African play-off. Nigeria now sit fifth in Africa with 1,502.46 points, behind Morocco, Senegal, Egypt and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco remain Africa\u2019s top-ranked team with 1,713.12 points, while Senegal are 19th globally. Egypt and Algeria occupy 34th and 35th positions respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Spain retained the global No. 1 spot, followed by Argentina and France, with Brazil climbing to fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s slight rise offers some consolation after their play-off defeat in Rabat. With the Africa Cup of Nations kicking off in December, the Super Eagles have an opportunity to further improve their standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Nigeria have climbed three spots to 38th in the latest FIFA men\u2019s world ranking released on Wednesday, despite failing to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. The rise follows a 4-1 win over Gabon and a 1-1 draw with DR Congo, which ended in a 4-3 penalty defeat in the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79001,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78999\/revisions\/79001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}