World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2011

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 South Africa (3) 4 Tonga (4) 5 France (5) 6 England (6) 7 Wales (7) 8 Ireland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Scotland (10) 11 Italy (11) 12 Samoa (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Fiji (14) 15 Georgia (15) 16 Canada (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Romania (18) 19 Chile (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Spain (22) +1 22 Namibia (23) +1 23 Portugal (24) +1 24 Uruguay (21) -3 25 Tunisia (25) 26 Ukraine (26) 27 Poland (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Moldova (29) 30 Czech Republic (30) 31 Germany (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Hong Kong (33) 34 Sweden (34) 35 Lithuania (35) 36 Malta (36) 37 Croatia (37) 38 Cyprus (38) 39 Bosnia (39) 40 Denmark (40) 41 Israel (41) 42 Hungary (42) 43 United Arab Emirates (43) 44 Kazakhstan (44) 45 South Korea (45) 46 Sri Lanka (46) 47 Singapore (47) 48 Latvia (48) 49 Austria (49) 50 Serbia (50) 51 Switzerland (51) 52 Armenia (52) 53 Andorra (53) 54 Slovenia (54) 55 Norway (55) 56 Slovakia (56) 57 Monaco (57) 58 Bulgaria (58) 59 Greece (59) 60 Luxembourg (60) 61 Finland (61) 62 Philippines (62) 63 Azerbaijan (63) 64 Malaysia (64) 65 Taiwan (65) 66 Thailand (66) 67 Iran (67) 68 India (68) 69 China (69) 70 Guam (70) 71 Indonesia (71) 72 Pakistan (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 721 (gross) 208.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 569.5 [79.0%] (gross) 178.1 [85.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2011-11-19      Spain   16       Uruguay   13 2011-11-19      Poland   34       Germany   8 2011-11-19      Czech Republic   22       Netherlands   10 2011-11-26      Moldova   13       Czech Republic   6 2011-11-26      Switzerland   22       Andorra   21 2011-12-03      Australia   24       Wales   18 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/) ©1996-2011 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2011 Paul Waite)