World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 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 Germany (25) +1 25 Hong Kong (24) -1 26 Portugal (26) 27 Chile (28) +1 28 Brazil (29) +1 29 Ukraine (30) +1 30 Belgium (31) +1 31 South Korea (34) +3 32 Senegal (n/a) 33 Uganda (27) -6 34 Zimbabwe (35) +1 35 Tunisia (36) +1 36 Paraguay (38) +2 37 Switzerland (39) +2 38 Czech Republic (40) +2 39 Moldova (32) -7 40 Netherlands (33) -7 41 Poland (37) -4 42 Sweden (41) -1 43 Madagascar (42) -1 44 Cote d'Ivoire (43) -1 45 Botswana (47) +2 46 Croatia (44) -2 47 Malta (45) -2 48 Malaysia (46) -2 49 Latvia (48) -1 50 Lithuania (49) -1 51 Sri Lanka (50) -1 52 Israel (51) -1 53 Kazakhstan (52) -1 54 United Arab Emirates (53) -1 55 Singapore (54) -1 56 Andorra (55) -1 57 Cyprus (56) -1 58 Philippines (57) -1 59 Luxembourg (58) -1 60 Hungary (59) -1 61 Taiwan (60) -1 62 Slovenia (61) -1 63 Serbia (62) -1 64 Austria (63) -1 65 Denmark (64) -1 66 Bosnia (65) -1 67 Norway (66) -1 68 Thailand (67) -1 69 Turkey (68) -1 70 Finland (69) -1 71 Greece (70) -1 72 Bulgaria (71) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 849 (gross) 227.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 692.5 [81.6%] (gross) 198.7 [87.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2013-06-11      Namibia   35       Senegal   12 2013-06-15      Senegal   41       Botswana   5 2013-11-08      Senegal   33       Cote d'Ivoire   10 2014-06-10      Tunisia   22       Senegal   14 2014-06-14      Senegal   32       Uganda   31 2015-03-14      Senegal   20       Cote d'Ivoire   14 2015-07-08      Botswana   26       Senegal   21 2015-07-11      Cote d'Ivoire   22       Senegal   19 2016-06-19      Senegal   30       Madagascar   24 2016-08-06      Namibia   60       Zimbabwe   22 2016-08-20      New Zealand   42       Australia   8 2016-08-20      South Africa   30       Argentina   23 2016-08-27      New Zealand   29       Australia   9 2016-08-27      Argentina   26       South Africa   24 2016-08-27      Kenya   34       Hong Kong   10 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)