Zambia Climbs On FIFA Ranking

By STEPHEN PHIRI
THE Zambia national soccer team has climbed by three rungs on the FIFA/Coca-Cola world rankings.
The Chipolopolo who were 72nd last month, has moved to 69th but has maintained the 15th position in Africa.
The rankings released in Zurich yesterday saw Zambia accrue 523 points while leaders Spain has 1507 points.
Zambia’s rise is attributed to the third place finish at the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) Senior Challenge Cup, which was won by hosts Kenya.
At the tournament in Kenya, Zambia drew 1-1 with Tanzania, beat Burundi 1-0 and thumped Somalia 4-0 in group stage matches.
In the quarter-finals, the Chipolopolo edged Burundi 4-3 on penalties after a goalless draw in regulation time and lost 1-2 to Sudan in the semi-finals.
Zambia overcame Tanzania 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in regulation time in the third-place playoff.
Ivory Coast maintain the first position in Africa, Ghana are second, Algeria are third, fourth are Nigeria, Cape Verde are fifth, sixth are Egypt.
They are followed by Mali (7), Tunisia (8), Cameroon (9) and Burkina Faso (10).
Others making the top 20 are Libya (11), Guinea (12), South Africa 13), Senegal (14), Zambia (15), Togo (160, Morocco (17), Sierra Leone (18), Gabon (19) and Democratic Republic of Congo (20).
And Spain has maintained the first position while 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil are stuck on 10th position.
Germany are second, Argentina are third, fourth are Columbia, Portugal are fifth, sixth Uruguay, Italy are seventh, eighth are Switzerland and ninth are Netherlands.

Posted by Editor on December 20, 2013. Filed under SPORTS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

6 Responses to Zambia Climbs On FIFA Ranking

womaniser Reply

December 20, 2013 at 9:27 am

Patriece shud remain head coach period
Emmanuel Zedi Mbao Reply

December 20, 2013 at 11:29 am

CAF must help answer this question, even Kalusha can answer this question; The Chipolopolo who were 72nd last month, has moved to 69th but has maintained the 15th position in Africa.Why not in Africa?
mulas mukala Reply

December 20, 2013 at 3:02 pm

we shouldn’t be performing the way we are regardles of those rankings
BA KAONDE Reply

December 20, 2013 at 4:14 pm

Why not in africa because we faild to qualify to the 2014 world cup.even burkina faso who also failed are even better than us
bbwii Reply

December 21, 2013 at 6:43 am

rubbish ba fifa,in Africa remained the same why?,Spain is still on top but is not performing weII,
man Reply

December 27, 2013 at 11:17 pm

ba fifa poseniko amano wy not in africa fifa ranking