World Rugby Rankings^TM, June 2010

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 South Africa (1) 2 New Zealand (2) 3 Australia (3) 4 France (4) 5 Ireland (5) 6 England (6) 7 Wales (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 Italy (9) 10 Scotland (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 Uruguay (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Portugal (22) 23 Spain (23) 24 Tunisia (25) +1 25 Chile (24) -1 26 Belgium (26) 27 Germany (27) 28 Moldova (28) 29 Czech Republic (29) 30 Ukraine (30) 31 Lithuania (31) 32 Kazakhstan (32) 33 Arabian Gulf (33) 34 Croatia (34) 35 Netherlands (35) 36 Hong Kong (36) 37 South Korea (37) 38 Israel (38) 39 Hungary (39) 40 Armenia (40) 41 Cyprus (41) 42 Andorra (42) 43 Poland (43) 44 Malta (44) 45 Slovenia (45) 46 Norway (46) 47 Sri Lanka (47) 48 Singapore (48) 49 Malaysia (58) +9 50 Thailand (61) +11 51 India (67) +16 52 Latvia (49) -3 53 Sweden (50) -3 54 Serbia (51) -3 55 Switzerland (53) -2 56 Denmark (52) -4 57 China (59) +2 58 Taiwan (60) +2 59 Bulgaria (54) -5 60 Austria (55) -5 61 Greece (56) -5 62 Luxembourg (57) -5 63 Finland (62) -1 64 Bosnia (63) -1 65 Slovakia (64) -1 66 Monaco (65) -1 67 Azerbaijan (66) -1 68 Pakistan (69) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 721 (gross) 192.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 577 [80.0%] (gross) 165.7 [85.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2010-05-08      Japan   60       Arabian Gulf   5 2010-05-08      Hong Kong   19       Kazakhstan   15 2010-05-08      Ukraine   27       Lithuania   16 2010-05-08      Andorra   10       Switzerland   0 2010-05-14      Arabian Gulf   21       South Korea   19 2010-05-15      Japan   101       Kazakhstan   7 2010-05-15      Slovenia   14       Denmark   12 2010-05-15      Austria   19       Hungary   17 2010-05-19      Uruguay   46       Chile   19 2010-05-22      Japan   94       Hong Kong   5 2010-05-22      Kazakhstan   32       South Korea   5 2010-05-22      Romania   33       Ukraine   3 2010-05-22      Slovenia   16       Norway   13 2010-06-02      India   94       China   0 2010-06-05      South Africa   34       Wales   31 2010-06-05      Australia   49       Fiji   3 2010-06-05      Romania   61       Ukraine   7 2010-06-05      Canada   48       Uruguay   6 2010-06-05      United States   39       Russia   22 2010-06-05      Thailand   56       China   3 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)