At last Egypt are up in the Fifa World Rankings. After the latest games, Egypt managed to move up by a number of positions, and are now up there with the big African teams. The rankings came out officially on the 19th of November. Egypt are the 2nd Arab team, the 5th African team and lie in 34th overall.

The top (top 10):

1 Brazil
2 France
3 Spain
4 Argentina
5 Mexico
6 Netherlands
7 Turkey
8 England
9 Germany
10 Czech Republic

Our region (30-40):

30 Greece
31 Senegal
32 Nigeria
32 South Africa 34 Egypt

35 Iran
36 Serbia and Montenegro
36 Ecuador
38 Morocco
39 Bulgaria
39 Norway

African rankings (top 10):

14 Cameroon
31 Senegal
32 Nigeria
32 South Africa
34 Egypt
38 Morocco
46 Tunisia
51 Zimbabwe
55 DR Congo
56 Mali

Arab rankings (top 10):

26 Saudi Arabia
34 Egypt
38 Morocco
44 Iraq
46 Tunisia
52 Kuwait
59 Jordan
61 Algeria
62 Oman
72 Bahrain

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