The Zambia national team has fallen 9 places on the FIFA/Coca Cola World rankings according to the latest ranking released in Zurich.
The Chipolopolo fell further from a poor 79th position to 88th position in the world as they fell out of the top 20 in Africa to rank 23rd on the continent.
This is the first time Zambia is ranking outside the top 20 in Africa since September, 2014.
The Chipolopolo had a lot of activity in the month of June playing Guinea Bissau, Swaziland and Lesotho but only managed one win against lowly ranked Lesotho losing the rest.
The George Lwandamina coached side has only won once in the last 10 games marking one of the worst runs by the 2012 African Champions.
Guinea Bissau who peeped Zambia to a spot at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations are now ranked ahead of Zambia in position 75 after going up 40 places.
Zambia next game is a formality fixture against Kenya who leap frogged Zambia to stand at 22nd in Africa.
Africa Rankings:
1.Algeria 2. Cote d’Ivoire 3. Ghana 4.Senegal 5.Egypt 6. Tunisia 7. Cameroon 8. Morocco 9. Congo DR 10. Mali 11. Cape Verde 12. Guinea 13. South Africa 14. Benin 15. Uganda 16. Congo 17. Nigeria 18. Burkina Faso 19. Guinea Bissau 20. Equatorial Guinea 21. Central African Republic 22. Kenya 23. Zambia
Zambia wake up, why
reflection of match results…. hope we rectify this and regain the lost glory
From copper bullets to rubber bullets. Kalu is smiling @Sonta
all this it’s because of poor player selection by the coach.
Mayo ehe … My ZAMBIA p
please ba FAZ install never give up attitude in our players. Lets learn a lesson to our Ghanian brothers who has a fighting spirit in them no matter what. Its a shame that after 2012 we have been spoor and please let us nocompare our selves to egypt they are more successful than us. lets put our house in,order
Zambia needs patience to develop sturdy football. Develop the under 20 soccer to compete at international level seriously just like Ghana, and you can have enough young quality players to feed the national team. Also a few players from Zambia playing in top European league can introduce the robust and aggressive pattern that does not give up easily. Zambia football federation also needs to pull their weight in pumping money into football standard.
1: Let us develop our football from the bottom up, not top down. The under 20s, 17s are the key. Thank you for your positive suggestion, brother
This is disaster now
What a disaster !!!!
The beginning of the end. We are going down down down. How pathetic.
kalu kalu kalu kalu please cum bck we are sorry big man