World Rugby Rankings^TM, June 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 England (3) 4 Australia (4) 5 France (5) 6 Wales (6) 7 South Africa (7) 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 (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Namibia (18) 19 Spain (20) +1 20 Russia (21) +1 21 Germany (22) +1 22 Uruguay (23) +1 23 Canada (29) +6 24 Kenya (19) -5 25 Belgium (27) +2 26 Hong Kong (25) -1 27 Portugal (26) -1 28 Uganda (24) -4 29 Chile (30) +1 30 Brazil (28) -2 31 Zimbabwe (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Senegal (35) 36 Tunisia (36) 37 Czech Republic (37) 38 Poland (38) 39 Lithuania (43) +4 40 Moldova (41) +1 41 Malta (40) -1 42 Ukraine (42) 43 Paraguay (39) -4 44 Malaysia (45) +1 45 Algeria (46) +1 46 Madagascar (44) -2 47 Cote d'Ivoire (47) 48 Israel (48) 49 Croatia (49) 50 Latvia (50) 51 Sweden (51) 52 Botswana (52) 53 Luxembourg (56) +3 54 Sri Lanka (54) 55 Kazakhstan (55) 56 Singapore (57) +1 57 Andorra (59) +2 58 Cyprus (60) +2 59 Hungary (61) +2 60 Bosnia (62) +2 61 Slovenia (63) +2 62 Serbia (66) +4 63 Philippines (58) -5 64 United Arab Emirates (53) -11 65 Taiwan (64) -1 66 Austria (67) +1 67 Denmark (68) +1 68 Thailand (65) -3 69 Turkey (69) 70 Norway (70) 71 Finland (71) 72 Bulgaria (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 850 (gross) 229.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 695 [81.8%] (gross) 198.9 [86.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-05-06      Japan   29       Hong Kong   17 2017-05-06      Lithuania   52       Sweden   13 2017-05-06      Czech Republic   33       Luxembourg   3 2017-05-06      Croatia   29       Cyprus   27 2017-05-06      Hungary   37       Finland   5 2017-05-13      Japan   16       Hong Kong   0 2017-05-13      Chile   15       Brazil   10 2017-05-13      Uruguay   45       Paraguay   19 2017-05-14      Sri Lanka   24       Philippines   13 2017-05-14      Malaysia   36       United Arab Emirates   22 2017-05-17      Sri Lanka   33       United Arab Emirates   17 2017-05-17      Malaysia   38       Philippines   8 2017-05-20      Uruguay   41       Brazil   27 2017-05-20      Chile   66       Paraguay   7 2017-05-20      Belgium   29       Portugal   18 2017-05-20      Czech Republic   48       Malta   14 2017-05-20      Malaysia   22       Sri Lanka   9 2017-05-20      Philippines   34       United Arab Emirates   26 2017-05-26      Brazil   57       Paraguay   6 2017-05-27      Hong Kong   43       South Korea   17 2017-05-27      Uruguay   27       Chile   11 2017-05-27      Germany   30       Kenya   29 2017-05-27      Czech Republic   47       Hungary   19 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)