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09.01.2006 Football News

Ghana’s League- 29th Strongest In The World

09.01.2006 LISTEN
By CUBAGEE URIEL (RADIO B.A.R)

Ghana's premier league gained remarkable strides in the latest rankings of the strongest league of the world by moving from its previous rank of 45th to 29th position. Aside this laudable achievement ,the current ranking puts Ghana's league as the strongest on the African continent. This is due notably to the good performance of Accra Hearts Of oak , Kumasi Asante Kotoko and King Faisal in the 2004 Caf competitions.

England has the strongest league in the world. England's Premier League, already the second strongest in the world in 2004, has continuously gained in strength, and proven this outside of the British isles as well. The renaissance of Italy's Serie A continues, and the Première Division of France – by now the third best league in the world – is also gathering strength. The instability of Spain's top clubs at the national level and their poor showing at the European club championships for over a year now have caused Spain's Primera División to crash from first place to fourth. While Germany's Bundesliga has risen by one place (now fifth), the Eredivisie has made great strides, propelling the Netherlands to seventh place, right between Brazil and Argentina. Equally spectacular gains were registered by the Russian and the Ukrainian leagues, which are now being funded a great deal better and so made the "top ten". The Primera División of Mexico is currently not only the strongest league of the CONCACAF region, but also the third strongest in Latin America. Other national leagues which made great improvement in 2005 include those of Romania, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Norway, Slovakia, Estonia, Poland and especially the United Arab Emirates, now the strongest Asian league, before Saudi Arabia and China. On the other hand, the East Asian top leagues – Japan and South Korea – are going downhill. A similar downturn has been observed in the nation al leagues of Peru, South Africa, Latvia, Hungary, Israel, Senegal, Sweden and Croatia.

1. England 1207,0 2. Italia 1137,0 3. France 995,0 4. España 985,0 5. Deutschland 950,0 6. Brasil 946,0 7. Nederland 890,5 8. Argentina 850,0 9. Russia 710,5 10. Ukraina 665,0 11. México 657,0 12. Portugal 633,5 13. Belgique 631,0 14. Chile 618,0 15. Colombia 615,0 16. Scotland 595,5 17. Türkiye 573,0 18. Greece 564,5 19. România 526,0 20. Perú 502,5 21. Schweiz 484,5 22. Paraguay 483,0 23. Bulgaria 465,0 24. Österreich 463,0 25. Česká Republika 462,5 26. Uruguay 451,5 27. Danmark 430,5 28. Srbija i Crna Gora 426,5 29. Ghana 417,0 30. Maroc 413,0 31. Egypt 409,0 32. Ecuador 406,0 33. Nigeria 404,0 Norge 404,0 35. Slovensko 403,5 36. UAE 401,5 37. Tunisie 384,0 38. Bolivia 380,0 Eesti 380,0 40. South Africa 377,5 41. Saudi Arabia 376,0 42. Lietuva 368,0 43. Costa Rica 367,0 44. Slovenija 355,5 45. Éire 349,0 46. China 348,0 Polska 348,0 48. Azerbaijan 344,0 49. Macedonia 339,0 50. Albania 335,0 51. Georgia 319,0 52. Zimbabwe 318,0 53. Korea (S) 317,0 54. Moldova 316,0 55. Suomi 313,0 56. Japan 310,0 57. Qatar 308,5 58. Latvija 307,5 59. Cameroun 307,0 60. Côte-d'Ivoire 303,0 61. Magyarország 302,5 62. Israel 297,5 63. Iran 297,0 64. USA 294,5 65. Sénégal 290,5 66. Belarus 289,5 67. Kuwait 288,0 68. Guatemala 287,0 69. Jordan 285,5 70. Armenia 284,0 71. Zambia 282,5 72. Honduras 282,0 73. Sverige 280,0 74. Hrvatska 277,5 75. Uzbekistan 277,0 76. Angola 273,5 77. Bahrain 257,0 78. Algérie 256,0 79. Turkmenistan 254,5 80. El Salvador 235,0

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