Nigeria up to 44th and 6th in the World and Africa respectively in the FIFA World Rankings

Nigeria continued to make marginal ranking progress, building on from last month's advancement by moving up one place to 44 in the world.

But the improvement was not enough to move the country up on the continental rankings, as they stay outside of the top 5, below Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Algeria, Ghana and Cape Verde.

World Cup group rivals Bosnia gained no points and remained on 25th place in the world. 

Iran also made no progress and remain Asia's top team on 37th in the world rankings, while Argentina continued their slide by dropping one place to 7th in the world, following from their three-spot drop of last month.

AFRICA's Top 20:

21 1 Côte d'Ivoire

24 2 Egypt

25 3 Algeria

38 4 Ghana

42 5 Cape Verde Islands

44 6 Nigeria

49 7 Tunisia

50 8 Cameroon

51 9 Guinea

59 10 Mali

61 11 Burkina Faso

62 12 Libya

63 13 Senegal

65 14 South Africa

71 15 Sierra Leone

76 16 Morocco

79 17 Zambia

86 18 Uganda

87 19 Gabon

88 20 Congo DR