World Rugby Rankings^TM, July 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 Italy (9) +1 9 Scotland (10) +1 10 Argentina (8) -2 11 Samoa (12) +1 12 Fiji (11) -1 13 Japan (13) 14 Tonga (15) +1 15 Canada (14) -1 16 United States (16) 17 Namibia (21) +4 18 Georgia (17) -1 19 Russia (18) -1 20 Romania (19) -1 21 Portugal (22) +1 22 Morocco (n/a) 23 Uruguay (20) -3 24 Spain (23) -1 25 Tunisia (24) -1 26 Chile (25) -1 27 Belgium (26) -1 28 Germany (27) -1 29 Moldova (28) -1 30 Czech Republic (29) -1 31 Ukraine (30) -1 32 Lithuania (31) -1 33 Kazakhstan (32) -1 34 Arabian Gulf (33) -1 35 Croatia (34) -1 36 Netherlands (35) -1 37 Hong Kong (36) -1 38 South Korea (37) -1 39 Israel (38) -1 40 Hungary (39) -1 41 Armenia (40) -1 42 Cyprus (41) -1 43 Slovenia (45) +2 44 Andorra (42) -2 45 Poland (43) -2 46 Malta (44) -2 47 Norway (46) -1 48 Sri Lanka (47) -1 49 Singapore (48) -1 50 Malaysia (49) -1 51 Thailand (50) -1 52 India (51) -1 53 Latvia (52) -1 54 Sweden (53) -1 55 China (57) +2 56 Taiwan (58) +2 57 Serbia (54) -3 58 Switzerland (55) -3 59 Denmark (56) -3 60 Bulgaria (59) -1 61 Austria (60) -1 62 Greece (61) -1 63 Luxembourg (62) -1 64 Finland (63) -1 65 Bosnia (64) -1 66 Slovakia (65) -1 67 Monaco (66) -1 68 Azerbaijan (67) -1 69 Pakistan (68) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 731 (gross) 206.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 579 [79.2%] (gross) 175.3 [85.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2006-10-28      Namibia   25       Morocco   7 2006-11-11      Namibia   27       Morocco   8 2007-01-20      Portugal   10       Morocco   5 2007-01-27      Portugal   16       Morocco   15 2010-06-12      New Zealand   66       Ireland   28 2010-06-12      Scotland   24       Argentina   16 2010-06-12      Australia   27       England   17 2010-06-12      South Africa   42       France   17 2010-06-12      Samoa   24       Tonga   23 2010-06-12      Fiji   22       Japan   8 2010-06-12      Israel   13       Finland   6 2010-06-15      Italy   21       Georgia   3 2010-06-19      Scotland   13       Argentina   9 2010-06-19      South Africa   29       Italy   13 2010-06-19      New Zealand   42       Wales   9 2010-06-19      England   21       Australia   20 2010-06-19      Japan   31       Samoa   23 2010-06-19      Fiji   41       Tonga   38 2010-06-19      Russia   38       Uruguay   19 2010-06-19      Morocco   29       Tunisia   6 2010-06-19      Namibia   21       Georgia   16 2010-06-26      Argentina   41       France   13 2010-06-26      South Africa   55       Italy   11 2010-06-26      Australia   22       Ireland   15 2010-06-26      New Zealand   29       Wales   10 2010-06-26      Samoa   31       Fiji   9 2010-06-26      Japan   26       Tonga   23 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)