Posted in News on Jun 25, 2003.
It's the fourth time that the former African champions, who were ranked 31 in May, are ranked 33rd in the world in 18 months. The last time the landed in that position was back in September, July and February of last year.
They moved up three notches in October, their best ranking of the year, but dropped down to 31 in November and moved back up to 30th in December, maintaining that position until April this year.
South Africa's highest ever ranking was back in August of 1996 where they were ranked 16th in the world and first in Africa.
Despite losing ground in the world ranking, South Africa is still fourth in the Confederation of African Football (Caf) ranking, a position they’ve held for a couple of months now.
The continent's top footballing nation is still the African champions, Cameroon, who recently defeated the world champions Brazil and 2002 South Korea/Japan World Cup semifinalists, Turkey, in the Confederations Cup held in France.
The 2002 Nations Cup losing finalists and World Cup quarterfinalists, Senegal are second, followed closely by Nigeria in third.
TOP 20 NATIONS
1. Brazil - 834 points
2. France - 814
3. Spain - 762
4. Argentina - 754
5. Netherlands - 752
6. Germany - 745
7. Turkey - 733
8. England - 727
9. USA - 717
10. Czech Republic - 712
11. Italy - 711
11. Mexico - 711
13. Denmark - 710
14. Ireland Republic - 703
15. Portugal - 692
16. Cameroon - 691
17. Belgium - 672
18. Costa Rica - 663
18. Sweden - 663
20. Paraguay - 657
33. South Africa - 619
TOP 20 AFRICAN NATIONS
1. Cameroon - 691
2. Senegal - 633
3. Nigeria - 626
4. South Africa - 619
5. Morocco - 613
6. Egypt - 606
7. Tunisia - 596
8. Cote d'Ivoire - 555
9. Congo DR - 541
10. Zimbabwe - 536
11. Zambia - 526
12. Algeria - 522
13. Ghana - 513
14. Burkina Faso - 508
15. Mali - 505
16. Kenya - 493
17. Angola - 479
18. Togo - 468
19. Libya - 455
20. Liberia - 438
