World Rugby Rankings^TM, July 2016

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (4) +2 3 Australia (2) -1 4 South Africa (3) -1 5 Wales (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 France (9) 10 Georgia (16) +6 11 Fiji (10) -1 12 Japan (12) 13 Italy (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 Tonga (11) -4 16 United States (15) -1 17 Romania (17) 18 Canada (18) 19 Namibia (19) 20 Uruguay (20) 21 Russia (21) 22 Kenya (22) 23 Spain (23) 24 Hong Kong (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Portugal (26) 27 Ukraine (29) +2 28 Belgium (30) +2 29 Moldova (31) +2 30 Chile (27) -3 31 Brazil (28) -3 32 Netherlands (33) +1 33 South Korea (32) -1 34 Zimbabwe (35) +1 35 Tunisia (36) +1 36 Senegal (n/a) 37 Poland (37) 38 Paraguay (38) 39 Switzerland (39) 40 Uganda (34) -6 41 Czech Republic (40) -1 42 Sweden (41) -1 43 Madagascar (42) -1 44 Croatia (43) -1 45 Malta (44) -1 46 Malaysia (45) -1 47 Latvia (46) -1 48 Lithuania (47) -1 49 Sri Lanka (48) -1 50 Israel (49) -1 51 Kazakhstan (50) -1 52 United Arab Emirates (51) -1 53 Singapore (52) -1 54 Andorra (53) -1 55 Cyprus (54) -1 56 Philippines (55) -1 57 Luxembourg (56) -1 58 Hungary (57) -1 59 Taiwan (58) -1 60 Slovenia (59) -1 61 Serbia (60) -1 62 Austria (61) -1 63 Denmark (62) -1 64 Bosnia (63) -1 65 Norway (64) -1 66 Thailand (65) -1 67 Turkey (66) -1 68 Finland (67) -1 69 Greece (68) -1 70 Bulgaria (69) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 833 (gross) 247.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 682 [81.9%] (gross) 216.4 [87.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2012-07-04      Namibia   20       Senegal   18 2013-06-11      Namibia   35       Senegal   12 2014-06-10      Tunisia   22       Senegal   14 2014-06-14      Senegal   32       Uganda   31 2016-06-04      Hong Kong   41       South Korea   15 2016-06-04      Argentina   87       Chile   12 2016-06-04      Kenya   48       Uganda   10 2016-06-09      Romania   20       Namibia   18 2016-06-11      New Zealand   39       Wales   21 2016-06-11      England   39       Australia   28 2016-06-11      Ireland   26       South Africa   20 2016-06-11      Argentina   30       Italy   26 2016-06-11      Samoa   19       Georgia   19 2016-06-11      Japan   26       Canada   21 2016-06-11      Fiji   23       Tonga   18 2016-06-13      Romania   40       Uruguay   0 2016-06-13      Namibia   34       Spain   32 2016-06-17      Kenya   18       Brazil   17 2016-06-18      New Zealand   36       Wales   22 2016-06-18      England   23       Australia   7 2016-06-18      South Africa   32       Ireland   26 2016-06-18      Scotland   26       Japan   13 2016-06-18      Italy   24       United States   20 2016-06-18      Canada   46       Russia   21 2016-06-18      Fiji   26       Samoa   16 2016-06-18      Georgia   23       Tonga   20 2016-06-18      Uruguay   16       Spain   0 2016-06-19      Argentina   30       France   19 2016-06-19      Senegal   30       Madagascar   24 2016-06-24      Georgia   14       Fiji   3 2016-06-25      New Zealand   46       Wales   6 2016-06-25      England   44       Australia   40 2016-06-25      South Africa   19       Ireland   13 2016-06-25      France   27       Argentina   0 2016-06-25      Scotland   21       Japan   16 2016-06-25      Samoa   26       Tonga   18 2016-06-25      United States   25       Russia   0 2016-06-26      Italy   20       Canada   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 See also "World Rugby" (formerly the "International Rugby Board (IRB)") - which now has their own, unrelated '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/) ©1996-2016 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2016 Paul Waite)