World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 2014

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (4) +2 3 South Africa (2) -1 4 England (3) -1 5 Ireland (5) 6 Wales (6) 7 France (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Japan (10) 11 Georgia (11) 12 Samoa (12) 13 Fiji (13) 14 Italy (14) 15 Romania (15) 16 Canada (16) 17 Tonga (17) 18 United States (18) 19 Uruguay (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Spain (21) 22 Portugal (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Hong Kong (24) 25 Belgium (25) 26 Zimbabwe (29) +3 27 South Korea (26) -1 28 Moldova (27) -1 29 Germany (28) -1 30 Chile (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Ukraine (32) 33 Paraguay (33) 34 Tunisia (34) 35 Brazil (35) 36 Madagascar (36) 37 Uganda (37) 38 Cyprus (38) 39 Philippines (39) 40 Sri Lanka (40) 41 Poland (41) 42 Czech Republic (42) 43 Netherlands (43) 44 Malta (44) 45 Sweden (45) 46 Lithuania (46) 47 Switzerland (47) 48 Croatia (48) 49 Latvia (49) 50 Israel (50) 51 Andorra (51) 52 United Arab Emirates (52) 53 Kazakhstan (53) 54 Singapore (54) 55 Denmark (55) 56 Taiwan (56) 57 Hungary (57) 58 Austria (58) 59 Serbia (59) 60 Bosnia (60) 61 Luxembourg (61) 62 Norway (62) 63 Malaysia (63) 64 Iran (64) 65 Thailand (65) 66 Slovenia (66) 67 India (67) 68 Bulgaria (68) 69 Finland (69) 70 Greece (70) 71 China (71) 72 Guam (72) 73 Indonesia (73) 74 Pakistan (74) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 812 (gross) 210.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 664 [81.8%] (gross) 184.0 [87.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2014-08-02      Russia   23       Zimbabwe   15 2014-08-02      Uruguay   28       Hong Kong   3 2014-08-16      New Zealand   12       Australia   12 2014-08-16      South Africa   13       Argentina   6 2014-08-23      New Zealand   51       Australia   20 2014-08-23      South Africa   33       Argentina   31 2014-09-06      New Zealand   28       Argentina   9 2014-09-06      Australia   24       South Africa   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 World Rugby Rankings are updated monthly, shortly after the start of the month. (The most recently computed rankings can be found at https://wrr.live555.com/) ©1996-2013 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2013 Paul Waite)