However, Ghana stayed at 8th position on the African continent behind first placed Tunisia, second placed Senegal, Congo DR, Morocco, Egypt, Cameroon and Nigeria.

Kwesi Appiah’s team dropped in their accumulated points for the ranking going from 659 to 596.

Black Stars missed out on the 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament having made appearances in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, 2010 edition in South Africa and the 2014 version in Brazil that was troubled with controversies.

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Here are the top 10 African countries for the FIFA men’s ranking in February.

Tunisia

Senegal

Congo DR

Morocco

Egypt

Cameroon

Nigeria

Ghana

Burkina Faso

Algeria

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Here are the top 10 countries in the world according to the FIFA men’s ranking.

Germany

Brazil

Portugal

Argentina

Belgium

Spain

Poland

Switzerland

France

Chile