World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 2016

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (2) 3 Australia (3) 4 South Africa (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 France (9) 10 Georgia (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Italy (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 Tonga (15) 16 United States (16) 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 Uganda (40) +13 28 Chile (30) +2 29 Brazil (31) +2 30 Ukraine (27) -3 31 Belgium (28) -3 32 Moldova (29) -3 33 Netherlands (32) -1 34 South Korea (33) -1 35 Zimbabwe (34) -1 36 Tunisia (35) -1 37 Poland (37) 38 Paraguay (38) 39 Switzerland (39) 40 Czech Republic (41) +1 41 Sweden (42) +1 42 Madagascar (43) +1 43 Cote d'Ivoire (n/a) 44 Croatia (44) 45 Malta (45) 46 Malaysia (46) 47 Botswana (n/a) 48 Latvia (47) -1 49 Lithuania (48) -1 50 Sri Lanka (49) -1 51 Israel (50) -1 52 Kazakhstan (51) -1 53 United Arab Emirates (52) -1 54 Singapore (53) -1 55 Andorra (54) -1 56 Cyprus (55) -1 57 Philippines (56) -1 58 Luxembourg (57) -1 59 Hungary (58) -1 60 Taiwan (59) -1 61 Slovenia (60) -1 62 Serbia (61) -1 63 Austria (62) -1 64 Denmark (63) -1 65 Bosnia (64) -1 66 Norway (65) -1 67 Thailand (66) -1 68 Turkey (67) -1 69 Finland (68) -1 70 Greece (69) -1 71 Bulgaria (70) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 838 (gross) 235.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 688 [82.1%] (gross) 206.6 [87.8%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2013-06-11      Tunisia   43       Botswana   12 2014-06-10      Cote d'Ivoire   22       Uganda   19 2014-06-14      Tunisia   26       Cote d'Ivoire   6 2015-07-05      Madagascar   36       Botswana   18 2015-07-05      Uganda   40       Cote d'Ivoire   11 2015-07-08      Madagascar   30       Cote d'Ivoire   26 2015-07-11      Uganda   59       Botswana   10 2016-06-26      Tunisia   43       Botswana   10 2016-06-29      Cote d'Ivoire   20       Botswana   13 2016-07-02      Namibia   40       Uganda   31 2016-07-02      Tunisia   50       Cote d'Ivoire   5 2016-07-09      Kenya   61       Zimbabwe   15 2016-07-16      Namibia   56       Kenya   21 2016-07-23      Uganda   34       Zimbabwe   27 2016-07-30      Kenya   45       Uganda   24 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)