World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2016

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (2) 3 Ireland (6) +3 4 Australia (3) -1 5 Wales (5) 6 South Africa (4) -2 7 Scotland (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 France (9) 10 Fiji (11) +1 11 Japan (12) +1 12 Georgia (10) -2 13 Samoa (14) +1 14 Tonga (15) +1 15 Italy (13) -2 16 Romania (17) +1 17 United States (16) -1 18 Canada (18) 19 Namibia (19) 20 Russia (21) +1 21 Kenya (22) +1 22 Spain (23) +1 23 Germany (24) +1 24 Uruguay (20) -4 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Portugal (26) 27 Belgium (30) +3 28 Chile (27) -1 29 Brazil (28) -1 30 Netherlands (40) +10 31 Switzerland (36) +5 32 Senegal (32) 33 Uganda (33) 34 Zimbabwe (34) 35 Tunisia (35) 36 South Korea (31) -5 37 Czech Republic (38) +1 38 Poland (41) +3 39 Moldova (39) 40 Ukraine (29) -11 41 Paraguay (37) -4 42 Malta (43) +1 43 Sweden (44) +1 44 Madagascar (45) +1 45 Cote d'Ivoire (46) +1 46 Israel (52) +6 47 Croatia (42) -5 48 Lithuania (51) +3 49 Latvia (50) +1 50 Botswana (47) -3 51 Malaysia (48) -3 52 Sri Lanka (49) -3 53 Luxembourg (56) +3 54 United Arab Emirates (54) 55 Kazakhstan (53) -2 56 Singapore (55) -1 57 Philippines (57) 58 Andorra (59) +1 59 Cyprus (60) +1 60 Hungary (62) +2 61 Slovenia (61) 62 Serbia (63) +1 63 Taiwan (58) -5 64 Austria (64) 65 Denmark (65) 66 Bosnia (66) 67 Turkey (68) +1 68 Norway (69) +1 69 Finland (71) +2 70 Thailand (67) -3 71 Greece (70) -1 72 Bulgaria (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 849 (gross) 245.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 700.5 [82.5%] (gross) 213.4 [87.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-11-05      Ireland   40       New Zealand   29 2016-11-05      Australia   32       Wales   8 2016-11-05      Argentina   54       Japan   20 2016-11-05      Netherlands   43       Ukraine   12 2016-11-05      Lithuania   11       Latvia   6 2016-11-05      Sweden   19       Luxembourg   0 2016-11-05      Israel   23       Croatia   16 2016-11-11      Russia   19       Zimbabwe   15 2016-11-12      New Zealand   68       Italy   10 2016-11-12      England   37       South Africa   21 2016-11-12      Australia   23       Scotland   22 2016-11-12      Wales   24       Argentina   20 2016-11-12      Ireland   52       Canada   21 2016-11-12      France   52       Samoa   8 2016-11-12      Japan   28       Georgia   22 2016-11-12      Romania   23       United States   10 2016-11-12      Tonga   28       Spain   13 2016-11-12      Portugal   26       Belgium   21 2016-11-12      Germany   24       Uruguay   21 2016-11-12      Senegal   15       Tunisia   14 2016-11-12      Moldova   54       Ukraine   15 2016-11-12      Czech Republic   15       Lithuania   6 2016-11-12      Israel   38       Cyprus   28 2016-11-13      Chile   30       South Korea   12 2016-11-15      Hong Kong   34       Zimbabwe   11 2016-11-19      New Zealand   21       Ireland   9 2016-11-19      England   58       Fiji   15 2016-11-19      Italy   20       South Africa   18 2016-11-19      Australia   25       France   23 2016-11-19      Wales   33       Japan   30 2016-11-19      Scotland   19       Argentina   16 2016-11-19      Georgia   20       Samoa   16 2016-11-19      Romania   21       Canada   16 2016-11-19      Tonga   20       United States   17 2016-11-19      Spain   33       Uruguay   16 2016-11-19      South Korea   38       Chile   36 2016-11-19      Russia   27       Hong Kong   0 2016-11-19      Germany   16       Brazil   6 2016-11-19      Netherlands   44       Moldova   17 2016-11-19      Portugal   28       Switzerland   10 2016-11-26      New Zealand   24       France   19 2016-11-26      England   27       Argentina   14 2016-11-26      Wales   27       South Africa   13 2016-11-26      Ireland   27       Australia   24 2016-11-26      Scotland   43       Georgia   16 2016-11-26      Tonga   19       Italy   17 2016-11-26      Fiji   38       Japan   25 2016-11-26      Samoa   25       Canada   23 2016-11-26      Romania   36       Uruguay   10 2016-11-26      Germany   36       Brazil   14 2016-11-26      Switzerland   29       Moldova   26 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)