Ghana fifa ranking 2022

Christian Kobby Quarshie / Julius Ofoe Accra, Dec.22. GNA- Ghana has moved three places up to be rated 58th best team in the world in the latest FIFA ranking released on Thursday, December 22, for the last month in 2022. Ghana, previously ranked 61st in the world saw a change after the senior national team’s performance in the just-ended FIFA World Cup with 1400.02 points accumulation, gaining 7.02 more points to move up. Ghana is now the 11th-best team in Africa behind Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, and Burkina Faso. After Morocco’s incredible run in the Mundial after beating Belgium, Canada, Spain, and Portugal to reach the last four stages, the North Africa team has moved to 11th place in the world and is now the number one in Africa, taking over from Senegal. The South American side Brazil, who fell off at the quarterfinal stage came out as the No.1 with 1840.77 points ahead of the world champions Argentina who climbed to the second position with 1838.38 points. The remaining top 10 in the world is made up of European countries as France, the runners-up in the World Cup, moved up to third. Belgium who was formerly rated second moved down to fourth place after its unimpressive show in the global showpiece and quarterfinalist England stays in the fifth position, with Netherlands, Croatia, Italy Portugal, and Spain completing the list in that order. On the global stage, 11 of the top 20 nations are made up of European co...

The Black Stars moved up from the 61st to 60th on the global index but still remains outside the top 10 in Africa. The West African giants are 11th in Africa behind the likes of Senegal, Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt and Mali. The four-time African champions fell in February after the country's calamitous 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon where the team exited the group stage without a win. However, the team turn the screws from the ruins to qualify for their fourth World Cup after negotiating their tie against regional rivals Nigeria on the away goal rule. Ghana will know its group opponents for the group stage on Fridaywhen the draw is held in Doha, Qatar. The Black Stars are among the lowly-seeded teams after being placed in Pot 4. This means the team cannot avoid heavyweights like Argentina, Brazil and France as well as 2014 group stage opponent Germany amongst many other stellar nations.

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The president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has revealed that the FIFA Rankings for November will be used for the draw for the 2022 FIFA World Cup play-offs. The play-off draw will be held in January next year as Ghana awaits its next opponent in the World Cup qualifiers. The Black Stars of Ghana edged past South Africa in the final group game at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium to progress to the play-offs. At CAF’s Executive Council meeting held last month, it has been determined that the FIFA Ranking for November will be used for the draw. He said: “The CAF Executive Committee met and decided that the last FIFA Rankings in November will be used for the World Cup Draws.” The 2022 World Cup play-off draw would be held on January 26. The first leg fixtures will take place at the lower-ranked team’s home. The higher teams that have qualified for the playoffs are Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Nigeria. The lower-ranked teams are Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Congo DR.

FIFA rankings are a unique way to measure how national teams compare to each other and can prove important when it comes to tournaments like a World Cup. Draws for such events are influenced by rankings, with the best teams separated from facing each other in the group stages. This means nations with lower rankings are often drawn in tougher groups and have an even tougher task to win the overall tournament. FIFA rankings aren't perfect and have come in for criticism in recent years, but they do provide a solid and reliable overview of a side's general consistency and how they'll likely fair come World Cup time. MORE: FIFA rankings for all 32 World Cup teams Brazil entered the 2022 World Cup as the world No.1 and have held top spot since March 31 this year when they replaced Belgium, who themselves were top for nearly four years. Ghana, meanwhile, arrived in Qatar as the lowest-ranked nation with the African side currently 61st. Italy (6th) are the highest ranked side not to have qualified, and Saudi Arabia, in 51st, caused a sensational upset by beating third-ranked Argentina in their opening game. Rank Nation Points 1 Brazil 1841.3 2 Belgium 1816.71 3 Argentina 1773.88 4 France 1759.78 5 England 1728.47 7 Spain 1715.22 8 Netherlands 1694.51 9 Portugal 1676.56 10 Denmark 1666.57 11 Germany 1650.21 12 Croatia 1645.64 13 Mexico 1644.89 14 Uruguay 1638.71 15 Switzerland 1635.92 16 USA 1627.48 18 Senegal 1584.38 19 Wales 1569.82 20 Iran 1564.61 21 Serbia 1563.62 22 Morocco 15...