[ 2013-12-19 ]

Black Stars finish year in 24th place
Ghana wrap up a remarkable year of World Cup
qualification to stay 24th in the last FIFA world
ranking released on Thursday for the year 2013.

The Black Stars finished the year as Africa's
second best side behind Ivory Coast with an
accumulated point build-up of 849 as the December
edition of the rankings did not bring about any
significant changes. Algeria and Nigeria Ghana in
that order on the continental ranking table.

World champions, Spain are still number one spot
as Germany remain in second with Argentina in
third.

According to FIFA, the regional competition of the
top 50 since December 2012 has recorded some
changes.

CONCACAF (five teams in the top 50, plus 2) and
CAF (9, plus 1) has increased slightly at the
expense of UEFA (26, minus 1), CONMEBOL (8, minus
1) and the AFC (2, minus 1), while the OFC still
does not have any teams in the top 50.

Results of 30 international matches were taken
into account for the current edition of the
FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.

In total in 2013, the results of 918 matches have
been taken into account, many of which were
friendlies (415) and more than a third of which
(347) were qualifying matches for the 2014 FIFA
World Cup™.

Source - Ghana FA

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