World Rugby Rankings^TM, January 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (2) 3 Ireland (3) 4 Australia (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 South Africa (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 France (9) 10 Fiji (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Italy (15) 16 Romania (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Canada (18) 19 Namibia (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Kenya (21) 22 Spain (22) 23 Germany (23) 24 Uruguay (24) 25 Uganda (33) +8 26 Hong Kong (25) -1 27 Portugal (26) -1 28 Belgium (27) -1 29 Chile (28) -1 30 Brazil (29) -1 31 Netherlands (30) -1 32 Zimbabwe (34) +2 33 Switzerland (31) -2 34 South Korea (36) +2 35 Senegal (32) -3 36 Tunisia (35) -1 37 Czech Republic (37) 38 Poland (38) 39 Moldova (39) 40 Ukraine (40) 41 Paraguay (41) 42 Malta (42) 43 Lithuania (48) +5 44 Sweden (43) -1 45 Madagascar (44) -1 46 Cote d'Ivoire (45) -1 47 Latvia (49) +2 48 Israel (46) -2 49 Croatia (47) -2 50 Botswana (50) 51 Malaysia (51) 52 United Arab Emirates (54) +2 53 Sri Lanka (52) -1 54 Luxembourg (53) -1 55 Kazakhstan (55) 56 Singapore (56) 57 Philippines (57) 58 Andorra (58) 59 Cyprus (59) 60 Hungary (60) 61 Slovenia (61) 62 Serbia (62) 63 Taiwan (63) 64 Thailand (70) +6 65 Austria (64) -1 66 Denmark (65) -1 67 Bosnia (66) -1 68 Turkey (67) -1 69 Norway (68) -1 70 Greece (71) +1 71 Finland (69) -2 72 Bulgaria (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 844 (gross) 228.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 692.5 [82.0%] (gross) 199.0 [87.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-12-03      England   37       Australia   21 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)