THE Nigerian senior female football team, Super Falcons, has retained its 36th position in latest Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) ranking. 

According to the ranking released by FIFA on Friday, August 16, the team, while maintaining its spot in the world also retained its position as the African best team.

This comes despite the team’s poor performance at the just-concluded Women’s Summer Olympics football event in Paris, where it faced three consecutive defeats, failing to make it to the quarterfinals.

The Super Falcons lost their opening match 1-0 to Brazil, another 1-0 defeat to Spain and a 3-1 defeat to Japan in the final group game, ending their Olympic campaign at the bottom of Group C.

Closely behind the Super Falcons as the top-ranked African team is the Banyana Banyana of South Africa. Morocco, Zambia and Ghana also made Africa’s top five female teams.

Globally, South Africa is placed at the 50th position, Morocco 59th, Zambia occupies the 62nd and Ghana at the 66th.

Meanwhile, the top 10 female football teams in the world, according to the latest ranking by FIFA include, the United States of America, England, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Korea DPR and France.