Zambia has moved one place up the FIFA rankings released on March 13 but find themselves ranked lower than Sierra Leone.
Patrice Beaumelles’ side has moved from 75 to 74 following their 2-1 home win over The Uganda Cranes on March 5 in Ndola.
However, Sierra Leone are two places above the 2012 African champions in 72nd place and 15th on the CAF rankings.
Sierra Leone have not qualified to the Africa Cup finals since 1996 where Zambia incidentally beat the Leone Stars 4-0 in a group game.
Meanwhile, Zambia also moved one place up the CAF rankings from 17 to 16 following last Wednesdays win.
And Zambia’s friendly opponents last Wednesday The Cranes dropped from 84 to 85 and from 18th to 19th on the CAF rankings.
CAF rankings 16th, what the hell is that. I dont think its true
These FIFA rankings are fake. Dont follow them. They will just confuse you. How can Cape Verde be ahead of Ghana and Nigeria? Sepp Blatter and his men are just conmen.
Ignorance is a bliss! !
hw abt south Africa?They were bashed 5_0 by Brazil.
Keep playing useless teams and you’ll still be wondering why you’re not moving up!!
FIFA need to be bribed. Seriously I think this is what at play. What miracle has Leone stars done to be above Zambia? its total nonsesnce.
Who is Zambia?
These rankings are meaningless, that’s why I don’t pay them any attention. Besides, they keep oscillating like a pendulum. Just wait until we beat few teams of similar ranking to the Leone Stars – then we will move up higher than them again.
These rankings don’t mean anything, Ivory Coast has remained number one without doing anything for three years, they lost to Zambia in 2012, in 2013 they did not go far, they struggled to go to the world cup, yet they are still on number one. Ghana is the team. If the 5-0 bashing of South Africa by Brazil was Zambia, we were going to be dropped 10 rungs down. So don’t worry about these rankings, let others be champions of rankings, and others be champions of football.
Dodo, I agree with you 100%.
Instead of burrying our heads in sand and comforting ourselves in our mediocrity, we better ask FAZ to ask FIFA to release their Ranking Methodology for our appreciation. only understanding the meothodology would our ranting be considered in perspective.
Spot on….its crystal clear in black and white most choose to ignore it.
At the world cup Ghana beat the team ranked 2 in the world to qualify for the quarter finals. Czcek Republic. It is not corruption just weak methodology, RSA beat Spain on a friendly game, and they jumped up in the ranking, but analising the game, Spain was like in a practice game. Those rankings do no help in cup games.