Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has been ranked as the best national team in Africa with the sacked Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah placing second on the continent, in the latest ranking released by a leading coaching statistics agency.
Keshi continue to top the poll for coaches on the continent while Appiah leads the pack who are chasing the Nigeria coach as the best in Africa.
Coaching rating agency, Football Coach World Ranking, named the former Black Stars coach in the 32nd position while Keshi is ranked in the 14th position.
The ranking of the top fifty coaches is dominated by coaches who coached at the World Cup with the top 15 almost exclusively for coaches who excelled at the World Cup.
The ranking favours coaches who are active in their jobs who those who have been jobless freely tumble down the ranking.
Click here to see the full ranking of National team Coaches for September 2014:
1.Joachim Low 2.Del Bosque 3.C.Prandelli 4.Paolo Jorge Gomes Bento 5.Jurgen Klinsmann 6.L Van Gaal 7.Fernando Santos 8.Jose Pekerman 10.Jose Manuel de la Torre 11.Luis Felipe Scolari 12.Jorge Luis Pinto 13.Marc Wilmots 14.Stephen Keshi 15.N Pumpido 16.Reinaldo Rueda 17.Ottmar Hitzfeld 18.Julio Valdes 19.Safet Susic 20.Alberto Zaccheroni 21.D.Deschamps 22.Eric Hamren 23.Alejandro Sabella 24.Fernando Suarez 25.Sergio Apraham 26.Jorge Sampaoli 27.Morten Olsen 28.Fabio Capello 29.R.Hodgson 30.Bob Bradley 31.Cesar Farias 32.James Kwesi Appiah