World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 2010

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (2) +1 2 Australia (3) +1 3 France (4) +1 4 Ireland (5) +1 5 South Africa (1) -4 6 England (6) 7 Wales (7) 8 Italy (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Samoa (11) 12 Fiji (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Canada (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Namibia (17) 18 Georgia (18) 19 Russia (19) 20 Romania (20) 21 Portugal (21) 22 Morocco (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Spain (24) 25 Cote d'Ivoire (n/a) 26 Tunisia (25) -1 27 Belgium (27) 28 Chile (26) -2 29 Kenya (n/a) 30 Germany (28) -2 31 Moldova (29) -2 32 Czech Republic (30) -2 33 Ukraine (31) -2 34 Lithuania (32) -2 35 Kazakhstan (33) -2 36 Arabian Gulf (34) -2 37 Croatia (35) -2 38 Netherlands (36) -2 39 Hong Kong (37) -2 40 South Korea (38) -2 41 Israel (39) -2 42 Hungary (40) -2 43 Armenia (41) -2 44 Cyprus (42) -2 45 Slovenia (43) -2 46 Andorra (44) -2 47 Poland (45) -2 48 Malta (46) -2 49 Norway (47) -2 50 Sri Lanka (48) -2 51 Singapore (49) -2 52 Malaysia (50) -2 53 Thailand (51) -2 54 India (52) -2 55 Latvia (53) -2 56 Sweden (54) -2 57 China (55) -2 58 Taiwan (56) -2 59 Serbia (57) -2 60 Switzerland (58) -2 61 Denmark (59) -2 62 Bulgaria (60) -2 63 Austria (61) -2 64 Greece (62) -2 65 Luxembourg (63) -2 66 Finland (64) -2 67 Bosnia (65) -2 68 Slovakia (66) -2 69 Monaco (67) -2 70 Azerbaijan (68) -2 71 Pakistan (69) -2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 742 (gross) 198.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 589.5 [79.4%] (gross) 168.6 [84.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2006-09-09      Kenya   30       Namibia   26 2006-09-23      Tunisia   31       Kenya   12 2006-10-07      Morocco   23       Cote d'Ivoire   7 2007-06-23      Kenya   23       Morocco   16 2007-07-07      Cote d'Ivoire   16       Tunisia   14 2007-09-30      Kenya   20       Cote d'Ivoire   17 2008-08-02      Cote d'Ivoire   21       Morocco   9 2008-08-02      Tunisia   44       Kenya   15 2009-06-13      Namibia   13       Cote d'Ivoire   13 2009-06-27      Namibia   54       Cote d'Ivoire   14 2009-07-11      Morocco   29       Kenya   11 2010-06-15      Morocco   60       Cote d'Ivoire   3 2010-07-10      New Zealand   32       South Africa   12 2010-07-17      New Zealand   31       South Africa   17 2010-07-17      Uruguay   44       Kazakhstan   7 2010-07-17      Romania   56       Tunisia   13 2010-07-24      Australia   30       South Africa   13 2010-07-31      New Zealand   49       Australia   28 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)