African FIFA Rankings 2002

African FIFA Rankings by country

Country	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Algeria	15	14	15	16	17	17	17	17	14	14	13	13
Angola	8	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	12	14	16
Benin	38	38	38	38	38	38	38	39	38	37	39	39
Botswana	39	37	37	37	35	36	35	35	33	36	36	36
Burkina Faso	17	17	17	17	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Burundi	33	30	30	30	31	32	32	33	36	35	36	35
Cameroon	4	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Cape Verde Islands	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	41	41
Central African Republic	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	44	44
Chad	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	43	43	43	43	43
Congo	18	18	19	19	19	19	19	20	21	20	20	21
Côte d'Ivoire	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	10	10
Djibouti	51	49	49	49	49	49	49	49	51	51	51	52
DR Congo	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	11
Egypt	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	6
Equatorial Guinea	48	48	48	48	48	48	48	48	50	50	50	51
Eritrea	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42	42
Ethiopia	40	35	35	35	36	34	34	34	34	33	33	37
Gabon	20	19	20	21	20	20	21	22	24	26	28	28
Gambia	36	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	39	38	38
Ghana	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	9	9
Guinea	22	23	23	23	23	23	23	24	25	28	27	27
Guinea-Bissau	43	43	43	43	43	43	43	44	44	44	46	46
Kenya	21	21	22	22	22	22	20	19	19	19	19	17
Lesotho	30	34	34	34	34	35	36	36	34	34	34	33
Liberia	14	14	15	15	16	15	15	16	17	17	18	19
Libya	24	24	24	24	24	24	25	27	22	23	23	24
Madagascar	28	28	28	28	27	25	26	28	26	22	22	22
Malawi	27	27	27	27	28	28	24	21	20	21	21	20
Mali	23	22	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	14
Mauritania	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45
Mauritius	29	29	29	29	30	30	31	30	31	31	31	31
Morocco	3	3	5	5	5	5	6	6	5	5	5	5
Mozambique	31	31	31	31	29	31	30	31	30	30	30	30
Namibia	19	19	20	20	20	20	21	23	26	29	29	29
Niger	49	50	50	50	50	50	51	52	47	47	47	47
Nigeria	5	5	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
Rwanda	35	32	32	32	32	33	33	32	32	32	32	32
São Tomé e Príncipe	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	47	49	49	50
Senegal	11	12	7	7	7	6	3	3	3	4	3	2
Seychelles	50	51	51	51	51	51	51	51	49	48	48	48
Sierra Leone	33	36	36	36	37	37	37	37	37	37	35	34
Somalia	52	52	52	52	52	52	50	50	52	52	52	49
South Africa	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4
Sudan	25	26	26	26	26	27	28	26	28	24	24	25
Swaziland	32	32	33	33	32	29	29	29	29	27	26	26
Tanzania	37	39	39	39	39	39	39	38	39	40	40	40
Togo	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	16	16	16	18
Tunisia	1	1	2	2	2	3	5	5	6	6	6	7
Uganda	26	25	25	25	25	26	27	25	23	25	25	23
Zambia	10	10	12	12	11	11	12	11	12	11	11	12
Zimbabwe	12	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	9	8	8	8

Mover of the Year: Senegal

Senegal gained 9 places to 2nd after reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup and a second-place finish in the African Nations Cup.

Loser of the Year: Namibia

Namibia dropped 10 places to 29th after losing all four matches played - Botswana (twice), Swaziland and Algeria.

Other Notables:

Cameroon became No.1 in Africa for the first time after capturing the African Nations Cup without losing a single match.
They replaced Tunisia who dropped to 7th from the top spot they had held for 7 months - they did not win all year in 14 attempts.

Mali gained 9 places to 14th after finishing fourth in the African Nations Cup and achieving promising results in the 2004 African Nations Cup qualifiers.

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