World Rugby Rankings^TM, January 2010

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 Australia (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 England (6) 7 France (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Samoa (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Canada (14) 15 Tonga (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Georgia (17) 18 Russia (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Namibia (20) 21 Portugal (21) 22 Spain (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Ukraine (26) 27 Lithuania (27) 28 Poland (28) 29 Belgium (29) 30 Moldova (30) 31 Czech Republic (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Kazakhstan (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Hong Kong (35) 36 Hungary (37) +1 37 Israel (38) +1 38 Slovenia (41) +3 39 Croatia (36) -3 40 Malta (39) -1 41 Sweden (40) -1 42 Norway (42) 43 Cyprus (46) +3 44 Greece (47) +3 45 Singapore (45) 46 Arabian Gulf (48) +2 47 Latvia (49) +2 48 Andorra (50) +2 49 Serbia (51) +2 50 Switzerland (52) +2 51 Armenia (53) +2 52 Denmark (54) +2 53 Bulgaria (55) +2 54 Austria (56) +2 55 Luxembourg (57) +2 56 Finland (58) +2 57 Bosnia (59) +2 58 Slovakia (63) +5 59 Monaco (64) +5 60 Azerbaijan (65) +5 61 Malaysia (43) -18 62 China (44) -18 63 Taiwan (60) -3 64 Sri Lanka (61) -3 65 Thailand (62) -3 66 India (66) 67 Philippines (67) 68 Pakistan (68) 69 Guam (69) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 719 (gross) 183.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 569 [79.1%] (gross) 156.8 [85.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2009-12-12      Germany   24       Hong Kong   14 2009-12-16      Czech Republic   17       Hong Kong   5 2009-12-19      Netherlands   25       Hong Kong   10 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)