Nigeria’s Super Eagles retained its 53rd spot in the World football governing body, FIFA, monthly ranking released from Zurich, Switzerland on Thursday.
The three-time African champions polled 599 points, which is a shortfall of their 601 points in August, and are ranked ninth in Africa.
Nigeria lags behind Algeria, Cote d’ Ivoire, Ghana, Tunisia, Senegal, Congo, Cameroon and Egypt.
The Sunday Oliseh-tutored team would do battle this weekend in a AFCON 2017 qualifying tie against Tanzania, who are ranked 140 in the world and 67th in Africa.
Meanwhile, there is no change at the top of the September edition of the World Ranking, with Argentina continuing to lead the way ahead of Belgium (2nd, unchanged) and Germany (3rd, unchanged).
Chile (8th, up 2) is the only team to have made significant movement in the top 10 and they are now in their highest-ever position since the revision of the global ladder in 2006. England (10th, down 2), however, have fallen two places, whereas both Austria (13th, up 1) and Congo (42nd, up 1) are in their best positions since 1993.
A total of 15 new international ‘A’ matches have been taken into account for this edition of the ranking, all of them friendly matches in the CONCACAF (1 match), Asia (10), Africa (2) or Oceania (2) zones.
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