World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2009

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 Ireland (6) +3 4 South Africa (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 England (9) +3 7 France (3) -4 8 Argentina (7) -1 9 Scotland (8) -1 10 Fiji (10) 11 Italy (11) 12 Samoa (12) 13 Canada (13) 14 Georgia (14) 15 Japan (15) 16 Tonga (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Russia (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Portugal (22) +2 21 Namibia (20) -1 22 Spain (21) -1 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Belgium (25) 26 Germany (26) 27 Ukraine (28) +1 28 South Korea (27) -1 29 Lithuania (29) 30 Poland (30) 31 Czech Republic (31) 32 Moldova (32) 33 Netherlands (33) 34 Hong Kong (34) 35 Armenia (35) 36 Sweden (36) 37 Latvia (37) 38 Kazakhstan (38) 39 Croatia (39) 40 Slovenia (40) 41 Hungary (41) 42 Norway (42) 43 Denmark (43) 44 Switzerland (44) 45 Serbia (45) 46 Andorra (46) 47 Malta (47) 48 Israel (48) 49 China (49) 50 Bulgaria (50) 51 Austria (51) 52 Luxembourg (52) 53 Arabian Gulf (53) 54 Taiwan (54) 55 Cyprus (n/a) 56 Greece (55) -1 57 Finland (56) -1 58 Bosnia (57) -1 59 Sri Lanka (58) -1 60 Singapore (59) -1 61 Azerbaijan (60) -1 62 Malaysia (61) -1 63 Thailand (62) -1 64 India (63) -1 65 Philippines (64) -1 66 Guam (65) -1 67 Pakistan (66) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 716 (gross) 181.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 570 [79.6%] (gross) 152.7 [84.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2007-03-24      Cyprus   39       Greece   3 2007-10-28      Cyprus   29       Azerbaijan   0 2008-09-06      Israel   23       Cyprus   14 2008-11-29      Cyprus   37       Azerbaijan   3 2009-03-15      England   34       France   10 2009-03-15      Portugal   24       Spain   19 2009-03-21      Ireland   17       Wales   15 2009-03-21      England   26       Scotland   12 2009-03-21      France   50       Italy   8 2009-03-21      Portugal   22       Romania   21 2009-03-21      Ukraine   20       Czech Republic   10 2009-03-21      Andorra   36       Armenia   10 2009-03-21      Israel   30       Luxembourg   0 2009-03-21      Cyprus   8       Bosnia   6 2009-03-22      Georgia   29       Russia   21 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)