World Rugby Rankings^TM, January 2012

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 South Africa (3) 4 Tonga (4) 5 France (5) 6 England (6) 7 Wales (7) 8 Ireland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Scotland (10) 11 Italy (11) 12 Samoa (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Fiji (14) 15 Georgia (15) 16 Canada (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Romania (18) 19 Russia (20) +1 20 Spain (21) +1 21 Namibia (22) +1 22 Portugal (23) +1 23 Uruguay (24) +1 24 Ukraine (26) +2 25 Poland (27) +2 26 Belgium (28) +2 27 Moldova (29) +2 28 Czech Republic (30) +2 29 Tunisia (25) -4 30 Germany (31) +1 31 Netherlands (32) +1 32 Hong Kong (33) +1 33 Sweden (34) +1 34 Lithuania (35) +1 35 Malta (36) +1 36 Croatia (37) +1 37 Cyprus (38) +1 38 Brazil (n/a) 39 Bosnia (39) 40 Latvia (48) +8 41 Denmark (40) -1 42 Israel (41) -1 43 Hungary (42) -1 44 Austria (49) +5 45 United Arab Emirates (43) -2 46 Kazakhstan (44) -2 47 South Korea (45) -2 48 Sri Lanka (46) -2 49 Singapore (47) -2 50 Serbia (50) 51 Switzerland (51) 52 Armenia (52) 53 Andorra (53) 54 Slovenia (54) 55 Norway (55) 56 Slovakia (56) 57 Monaco (57) 58 Bulgaria (58) 59 Greece (59) 60 Luxembourg (60) 61 Finland (61) 62 Philippines (62) 63 Azerbaijan (63) 64 Malaysia (64) 65 Taiwan (65) 66 Iran (67) +1 67 Thailand (66) -1 68 India (68) 69 China (69) 70 Guam (70) 71 Indonesia (71) 72 Pakistan (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 721 (gross) 197.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 572.5 [79.4%] (gross) 169.3 [85.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2009-04-29      Uruguay   71       Brazil   3 2010-05-13      Uruguay   26       Brazil   10 2011-05-17      Uruguay   39       Brazil   18 2011-12-10      Hong Kong   72       United Arab Emirates   14 2011-12-13      Brazil   66       United Arab Emirates   3 2011-12-16      Hong Kong   37       Brazil   3 For more information About the World Rugby Rankings Subjective comments about this month's rankings The complete set of match results from which the rankings were generated Some additional rugby links The International Rugby Board (IRB) (which now has their own 'world rankings') "The Rugby Guide" The World Rugby Rankings are updated monthly, shortly after the start of the month. (The most recently computed rankings can be found at http://wrr.live555.com/) ©1996-2011 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2011 Paul Waite)