World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2009

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (4) +3 2 South Africa (1) -1 3 New Zealand (2) -1 4 Australia (3) -1 5 Wales (5) 6 England (6) 7 France (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Samoa (13) +1 13 Japan (14) +1 14 Canada (12) -2 15 Tonga (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Georgia (17) 18 Russia (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Namibia (21) +1 21 Portugal (20) -1 22 Spain (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Ukraine (26) 27 Lithuania (28) +1 28 Poland (29) +1 29 Belgium (30) +1 30 Moldova (31) +1 31 Czech Republic (27) -4 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Kazakhstan (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Hong Kong (35) 36 Croatia (37) +1 37 Hungary (38) +1 38 Israel (39) +1 39 Malta (40) +1 40 Sweden (41) +1 41 Slovenia (42) +1 42 Norway (46) +4 43 Malaysia (43) 44 China (44) 45 Singapore (45) 46 Cyprus (47) +1 47 Greece (53) +6 48 Arabian Gulf (54) +6 49 Latvia (51) +2 50 Andorra (52) +2 51 Serbia (48) -3 52 Switzerland (50) -2 53 Armenia (36) -17 54 Denmark (49) -5 55 Bulgaria (57) +2 56 Austria (58) +2 57 Luxembourg (59) +2 58 Finland (60) +2 59 Bosnia (61) +2 60 Taiwan (55) -5 61 Sri Lanka (56) -5 62 Thailand (62) 63 Slovakia (63) 64 Monaco (64) 65 Azerbaijan (65) 66 India (66) 67 Philippines (67) 68 Pakistan (68) 69 Guam (69) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 716 (gross) 195.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 566 [79.1%] (gross) 166.6 [85.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2009-11-07      New Zealand   19       Wales   12 2009-11-07      Australia   18       England   9 2009-11-07      Namibia   12       Portugal   9 2009-11-07      Malta   25       Sweden   23 2009-11-07      Netherlands   57       Latvia   3 2009-11-07      Luxembourg   9       Finland   3 2009-11-07      Bosnia   16       Azerbaijan   15 2009-11-13      France   20       South Africa   13 2009-11-13      Wales   17       Samoa   13 2009-11-14      New Zealand   20       Italy   6 2009-11-14      England   16       Argentina   9 2009-11-14      Scotland   23       Fiji   10 2009-11-14      United States   27       Uruguay   22 2009-11-14      Moldova   45       Czech Republic   30 2009-11-14      Norway   12       Austria   9 2009-11-14      Cyprus   44       Monaco   5 2009-11-15      Australia   20       Ireland   20 2009-11-15      Japan   46       Canada   8 2009-11-21      New Zealand   19       England   6 2009-11-21      Scotland   9       Australia   8 2009-11-21      Wales   33       Argentina   16 2009-11-21      South Africa   32       Italy   10 2009-11-21      France   43       Samoa   5 2009-11-21      Ireland   41       Fiji   6 2009-11-21      Japan   27       Canada   6 2009-11-21      United States   27       Uruguay   6 2009-11-22      Switzerland   18       Armenia   0 2009-11-28      New Zealand   39       France   12 2009-11-28      Ireland   15       South Africa   10 2009-11-28      Australia   33       Wales   12 2009-11-28      Argentina   9       Scotland   6 2009-11-28      Fiji   29       Romania   18 2009-11-28      Italy   24       Samoa   6 2009-11-28      Tonga   24       Portugal   19 2009-11-28      Canada   22       Russia   6 2009-11-29      Andorra   21       Serbia   7 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)