World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Ireland (3) +1 3 England (2) -1 4 Australia (4) 5 France (7) +2 6 Wales (5) -1 7 South Africa (6) -1 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Fiji (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Italy (15) 16 Romania (17) +1 17 United States (18) +1 18 Namibia (19) +1 19 Kenya (20) +1 20 Spain (21) +1 21 Russia (24) +3 22 Germany (16) -6 23 Uruguay (22) -1 24 Uganda (25) +1 25 Hong Kong (26) +1 26 Portugal (27) +1 27 Belgium (28) +1 28 Brazil (29) +1 29 Canada (23) -6 30 Chile (30) 31 Zimbabwe (32) +1 32 Netherlands (31) -1 33 Switzerland (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Senegal (35) 36 Tunisia (36) 37 Czech Republic (37) 38 Poland (38) 39 Paraguay (41) +2 40 Moldova (39) -1 41 Malta (42) +1 42 Ukraine (40) -2 43 Lithuania (43) 44 Madagascar (45) +1 45 Cote d'Ivoire (46) +1 46 Israel (50) +4 47 Croatia (51) +4 48 Sweden (44) -4 49 Malaysia (47) -2 50 Algeria (48) -2 51 Latvia (49) -2 52 Botswana (52) 53 United Arab Emirates (54) +1 54 Sri Lanka (55) +1 55 Kazakhstan (56) +1 56 Luxembourg (53) -3 57 Singapore (57) 58 Philippines (58) 59 Andorra (59) 60 Cyprus (60) 61 Hungary (61) 62 Slovenia (62) 63 Serbia (63) 64 Taiwan (64) 65 Thailand (65) 66 Austria (66) 67 Denmark (67) 68 Bosnia (68) 69 Turkey (69) 70 Norway (70) 71 Finland (72) +1 72 Greece (71) -1 73 Bulgaria (73) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 859 (gross) 226.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 700.5 [81.5%] (gross) 195.6 [86.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-03-03      Brazil   24       Canada   23 2017-03-04      Georgia   20       Spain   10 2017-03-04      Romania   30       Russia   10 2017-03-04      Germany   34       Belgium   29 2017-03-04      Uruguay   45       Chile   14 2017-03-04      Portugal   26       Netherlands   10 2017-03-10      Wales   22       Ireland   9 2017-03-11      England   61       Scotland   21 2017-03-11      France   40       Italy   18 2017-03-11      Romania   33       Belgium   17 2017-03-11      Spain   32       Germany   15 2017-03-11      Portugal   59       Moldova   0 2017-03-12      Georgia   28       Russia   14 2017-03-12      Switzerland   54       Ukraine   18 2017-03-18      Ireland   13       England   9 2017-03-18      France   20       Wales   18 2017-03-18      Scotland   29       Italy   0 2017-03-18      Spain   30       Belgium   0 2017-03-18      Netherlands   38       Switzerland   25 2017-03-18      Poland   15       Moldova   3 2017-03-19      Romania   8       Georgia   7 2017-03-19      Russia   52       Germany   25 2017-04-01      Portugal   31       Ukraine   7 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)