Kenya Jump Two Places Up In Latest FIFA Rankings

Kenya has moved up two places in the latest World FIFA Rankings released on Thursday afternoon.

Harambee Stars, who had dropped one place in the month of October, are ranked 106^th with 1199 points.

Stars held Egypt to 1-1 draw away in Cairo before being held to a second successive draw by Togo at Kasarani in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Egyptians have dropped two places to rank 51^st same as Togo who have dipped to number 126.

Regionally, Uganda is the highly ranked East Africa nation at position 77th in the world, followed by Kenya and Sudan at 128th in the world.

Senegal is the top-ranked African nation at 20^th in the world followed by Tunisia at number 27 while Kenya’s next opponents, Comoros are placed 133^rd in the world.

Meanwhile, Belgium retained their top position in the overall standings with top ten teams remaining unchanged.

Croatia moved to the sixth position while Portugal dropped to the seventh position with 1639 points.

However, there are more significant changes further down the table, with Italy (13th, up 2), Poland (19th, up 2), Serbia (29th, up 4) and Nigeria (31st, up 4) pushing their way upwards.

Myanmar (136th, up 11) and Kuwait (147th, up 9) emerged the biggest climbers by points after their successful display in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2021 qualifiers.