World Rugby Rankings^TM, July 2009

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 South Africa (3) 4 Ireland (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 England (6) 7 France (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Italy (11) +1 11 Fiji (10) -1 12 Canada (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Japan (15) +1 15 Tonga (16) +1 16 United States (17) +1 17 Georgia (14) -3 18 Russia (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Portugal (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Spain (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Lithuania (25) 26 Poland (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Ukraine (29) 30 Czech Republic (30) 31 Moldova (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Kazakhstan (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Hong Kong (35) 36 Armenia (37) +1 37 Croatia (38) +1 38 Israel (39) +1 39 Malta (40) +1 40 Sweden (41) +1 41 Slovenia (42) +1 42 Hungary (43) +1 43 Latvia (45) +2 44 Cyprus (44) 45 Serbia (46) +1 46 Denmark (47) +1 47 Norway (48) +1 48 Switzerland (49) +1 49 Andorra (50) +1 50 Arabian Gulf (55) +5 51 Malaysia (59) +8 52 China (36) -16 53 Singapore (58) +5 54 Greece (51) -3 55 Taiwan (56) +1 56 Sri Lanka (57) +1 57 Bulgaria (52) -5 58 Austria (53) -5 59 Luxembourg (54) -5 60 Finland (60) 61 Bosnia (61) 62 Slovakia (62) 63 Monaco (63) 64 Azerbaijan (64) 65 Thailand (65) 66 India (66) 67 Pakistan (69) +2 68 Philippines (67) -1 69 Guam (68) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 722 (gross) 204.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 579.5 [80.3%] (gross) 178.0 [87.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2009-06-03      China   24       Pakistan   19 2009-06-03      Malaysia   43       India   29 2009-06-06      England   37       Argentina   15 2009-06-06      Wales   48       United States   15 2009-06-06      Canada   42       Georgia   10 2009-06-06      Lithuania   6       Netherlands   3 2009-06-06      Malaysia   43       China   15 2009-06-06      India   44       Pakistan   3 2009-06-12      Romania   17       Uruguay   12 2009-06-13      France   27       New Zealand   22 2009-06-13      Argentina   24       England   22 2009-06-13      Australia   31       Italy   8 2009-06-13      Fiji   36       Tonga   22 2009-06-18      Samoa   34       Japan   15 2009-06-20      New Zealand   14       France   10 2009-06-20      Australia   34       Italy   12 2009-06-20      Russia   29       Uruguay   26 2009-06-20      United States   31       Georgia   13 2009-06-23      Samoa   27       Tonga   13 2009-06-27      New Zealand   27       Italy   6 2009-06-27      Australia   22       France   6 2009-06-27      Japan   21       Tonga   19 2009-06-27      Fiji   19       Samoa   14 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/) ©1996-2009 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2009 Paul Waite)