World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 2008

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 South Africa (3) 4 Wales (4) 5 Argentina (5) 6 England (6) 7 France (7) 8 Ireland (8) 9 Italy (9) 10 Scotland (10) 11 Samoa (11) 12 Tonga (12) 13 Fiji (13) 14 Japan (14) 15 Georgia (15) 16 Russia (16) 17 Romania (17) 18 Canada (18) 19 United States (19) 20 Portugal (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Belgium (24) +2 23 Spain (25) +2 24 Uruguay (26) +2 25 Chile (27) +2 26 Germany (22) -4 27 Croatia (31) +4 28 Czech Republic (28) 29 Ukraine (29) 30 Moldova (23) -7 31 Netherlands (30) -1 32 Poland (34) +2 33 Armenia (32) -1 34 Lithuania (35) +1 35 Malta (36) +1 36 Latvia (37) +1 37 Andorra (38) +1 38 Sweden (39) +1 39 Denmark (40) +1 40 Switzerland (43) +3 41 Hungary (44) +3 42 Hong Kong (41) -1 43 South Korea (42) -1 44 Kazakhstan (33) -11 45 Serbia (45) 46 Norway (47) +1 47 Austria (48) +1 48 Bulgaria (49) +1 49 Slovenia (50) +1 50 Arabian Gulf (46) -4 51 Finland (57) +6 52 Israel (58) +6 53 Luxembourg (51) -2 54 Bosnia (59) +5 55 Sri Lanka (52) -3 56 China (53) -3 57 Singapore (54) -3 58 Taiwan (55) -3 59 Thailand (56) -3 60 Azerbaijan (60) 61 Malaysia (61) 62 India (62) 63 Pakistan (63) 64 Guam (64) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 704 (gross) 191.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 569.5 [80.9%] (gross) 165.2 [86.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2008-04-12      Georgia   18       Russia   12 2008-04-12      Belgium   22       Moldova   19 2008-04-12      Armenia   25       Denmark   13 2008-04-12      Lithuania   43       Latvia   17 2008-04-19      Russia   49       Czech Republic   3 2008-04-19      Germany   13       Ukraine   5 2008-04-19      Croatia   15       Andorra   10 2008-04-19      Sweden   28       Switzerland   16 2008-04-19      Slovenia   10       Luxembourg   3 2008-04-20      Bosnia   27       Israel   19 2008-04-26      Georgia   22       Spain   20 2008-04-26      Japan   39       South Korea   17 2008-04-26      Hong Kong   20       Arabian Gulf   12 2008-04-26      Germany   27       Netherlands   17 2008-04-26      Poland   55       Latvia   0 2008-04-26      Sweden   22       Serbia   3 2008-04-26      Austria   3       Norway   3 2008-04-26      Slovenia   17       Israel   5 2008-05-03      Japan   114       Arabian Gulf   6 2008-05-03      Hong Kong   23       Kazakhstan   17 2008-05-03      Ukraine   14       Moldova   9 2008-05-03      Belgium   51       Netherlands   3 2008-05-03      Lithuania   48       Austria   0 2008-05-03      Israel   20       Luxembourg   12 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/) ©1996-2008 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2008 Paul Waite)