World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 2009

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 South Africa (4) +1 4 Ireland (3) -1 5 Wales (5) 6 England (6) 7 France (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 Scotland (9) 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 (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Spain (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Belgium (25) 26 Germany (26) 27 Ukraine (27) 28 Lithuania (29) +1 29 Poland (30) +1 30 Czech Republic (31) +1 31 Moldova (32) +1 32 Netherlands (33) +1 33 Armenia (35) +2 34 Kazakhstan (38) +4 35 South Korea (28) -7 36 Hong Kong (34) -2 37 Croatia (39) +2 38 Malta (47) +9 39 Sweden (36) -3 40 Latvia (37) -3 41 Israel (48) +7 42 Slovenia (40) -2 43 Hungary (41) -2 44 Serbia (45) +1 45 Denmark (43) -2 46 Switzerland (44) -2 47 Andorra (46) -1 48 Norway (42) -6 49 China (49) 50 Cyprus (55) +5 51 Greece (56) +5 52 Bulgaria (50) -2 53 Austria (51) -2 54 Luxembourg (52) -2 55 Arabian Gulf (53) -2 56 Taiwan (54) -2 57 Sri Lanka (59) +2 58 Singapore (60) +2 59 Finland (57) -2 60 Bosnia (58) -2 61 Slovakia (n/a) 62 Monaco (n/a) 63 Azerbaijan (61) -2 64 Malaysia (62) -2 65 Thailand (63) -2 66 India (64) -2 67 Philippines (65) -2 68 Guam (66) -2 69 Pakistan (67) -2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 733 (gross) 197.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 585.5 [79.9%] (gross) 171.0 [86.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2006-10-14      Monaco   6       Slovakia   0 2007-05-12      Greece   20       Slovakia   17 2007-10-31      Slovakia   33       Azerbaijan   18 2007-10-31      Cyprus   19       Monaco   10 2007-11-03      Monaco   41       Azerbaijan   3 2007-11-03      Cyprus   38       Slovakia   8 2008-02-23      Greece   21       Monaco   9 2008-10-11      Bosnia   52       Monaco   5 2008-11-15      Bosnia   46       Slovakia   32 2008-12-06      Cyprus   24       Monaco   3 2009-01-31      Monaco   38       Azerbaijan   12 2009-03-14      Cyprus   33       Slovakia   7 2009-03-21      Slovakia   11       Monaco   10 2009-04-04      Serbia   12       Switzerland   6 2009-04-04      Lithuania   55       Latvia   12 2009-04-08      Taiwan   36       Sri Lanka   24 2009-04-08      Arabian Gulf   36       Thailand   17 2009-04-11      Denmark   20       Norway   18 2009-04-11      Greece   41       Bulgaria   18 2009-04-11      Arabian Gulf   44       Taiwan   24 2009-04-11      Sri Lanka   51       Thailand   17 2009-04-18      Netherlands   36       Sweden   24 2009-04-18      Malta   32       Latvia   19 2009-04-18      Hungary   25       Austria   12 2009-04-25      Japan   87       Kazakhstan   10 2009-04-25      South Korea   65       Singapore   0 2009-04-25      Netherlands   27       Malta   9 2009-04-25      Croatia   21       Latvia   13 2009-04-25      Denmark   27       Austria   6 2009-04-25      Slovenia   14       Norway   10 2009-04-25      Bulgaria   29       Finland   10 2009-04-25      Greece   17       Luxembourg   14 2009-05-02      Russia   53       Germany   0 2009-05-02      Japan   59       Hong Kong   0 2009-05-02      Kazakhstan   30       South Korea   27 2009-05-02      Uruguay   43       Chile   9 2009-05-02      Croatia   23       Sweden   13 2009-05-02      Lithuania   50       Serbia   9 2009-05-02      Israel   70       Finland   8 2009-05-09      Ukraine   32       Moldova   0 2009-05-09      South Korea   36       Hong Kong   34 2009-05-09      Kazakhstan   22       Singapore   19 2009-05-09      Lithuania   24       Armenia   19 2009-05-09      Israel   26       Slovenia   19 2009-05-16      Japan   80       South Korea   9 2009-05-16      Hong Kong   64       Singapore   6 2009-05-16      Poland   30       Moldova   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)