February FIFA rankings

FIFA rankings for the month of February were released earlier today and as a norm we look at movements COSAFA affiliated members are ranked.

With Zambia winning  Africa Cup of Nations last month, they have made the huge move, in December 2011 rankings, Zambia was placed number 79 in FIFA rankings and number 17 in CAF. Sionce then Chipolopolo have moved up 28 places to being number 41 on FIFA rankings and number 4 in CAF. Zambia is now the highest ranked team in COSAFA region with South Africa which was number 1 in this region for years going through some difficulties in winning matches, Bafana Bafana have never won a match since September of last year and that is showing with them going down 2 places from number 58 last month to number 60 with in the latest rankings

Below is the full rankings of our COSAFA region:

COSAFA	CAF	FIFA	Country	PTS	Movement
1	4	41	Zambia	630	Up 2
2	10	60	South Africa	549	Down 2
3	19	81	Angola	424	Up 2
4	21	96	Malawi	354	Up 2
5	23	100	Botswana	338	Up 4
6	25	104	Mozambique	319	Down 2
7	27	106	Zimbabwe	307	Down 7
8	40	132	Namibia	250	Down 12
9	43	160	Lesotho	131	Up 1
10	44	163	Madagascar	123	Down 5
11	46	179	Swaziland	83	0
12	47	188	Comoros	55	0
13	48	189	Seychelles	47	0
14	51	195	Mauritius	32	0

Note: Council Of Southern Africa Football Association(COSAFA) now has 3 countries ranked within top 20 countries in CAF