World Rugby Rankings^TM, July 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (3) +1 3 Australia (4) +1 4 Wales (6) +2 5 South Africa (7) +2 6 Ireland (2) -4 7 France (5) -2 8 Fiji (10) +2 9 Scotland (8) -1 10 Argentina (9) -1 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Tonga (14) +1 14 Italy (15) +1 15 Romania (16) +1 16 Samoa (13) -3 17 United States (17) 18 Uruguay (22) +4 19 Canada (23) +4 20 Spain (19) -1 21 Russia (20) -1 22 Namibia (18) -4 23 Germany (21) -2 24 Kenya (24) 25 Belgium (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Uganda (28) +1 28 Chile (29) +1 29 Brazil (30) +1 30 Portugal (27) -3 31 Zimbabwe (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Czech Republic (37) +2 36 Poland (38) +2 37 Lithuania (39) +2 38 Senegal (35) -3 39 Tunisia (36) -3 40 Moldova (40) 41 Malta (41) 42 Ukraine (42) 43 Paraguay (43) 44 Malaysia (44) 45 Algeria (45) 46 Madagascar (46) 47 Israel (48) +1 48 Croatia (49) +1 49 Latvia (50) +1 50 Sweden (51) +1 51 Cote d'Ivoire (47) -4 52 Botswana (52) 53 Luxembourg (53) 54 Sri Lanka (54) 55 Kazakhstan (55) 56 Singapore (56) 57 Andorra (57) 58 Cyprus (58) 59 Hungary (59) 60 Bosnia (60) 61 Slovenia (61) 62 Serbia (62) 63 Philippines (63) 64 United Arab Emirates (64) 65 Taiwan (65) 66 Austria (66) 67 Denmark (67) 68 Thailand (68) 69 Turkey (69) 70 Norway (70) 71 Finland (71) 72 Bulgaria (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 854 (gross) 247.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 705 [82.6%] (gross) 214.6 [86.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-06-03      Hong Kong   39       South Korea   3 2017-06-10      England   38       Argentina   34 2017-06-10      Australia   37       Fiji   14 2017-06-10      South Africa   37       France   14 2017-06-10      Ireland   55       United States   19 2017-06-10      Georgia   13       Canada   0 2017-06-10      Japan   33       Romania   21 2017-06-10      Spain   15       Namibia   13 2017-06-10      Brazil   25       Portugal   21 2017-06-10      Kenya   23       Uganda   18 2017-06-14      Uruguay   32       Russia   29 2017-06-16      New Zealand   78       Samoa   0 2017-06-16      Wales   24       Tonga   6 2017-06-17      South Africa   37       France   15 2017-06-17      England   35       Argentina   25 2017-06-17      Scotland   24       Australia   19 2017-06-17      Ireland   50       Japan   22 2017-06-17      Fiji   22       Italy   19 2017-06-17      Georgia   21       United States   17 2017-06-17      Romania   25       Canada   9 2017-06-18      Russia   31       Namibia   10 2017-06-18      Uruguay   24       Spain   14 2017-06-23      Wales   19       Samoa   17 2017-06-24      South Africa   35       France   12 2017-06-24      Australia   40       Italy   27 2017-06-24      Ireland   35       Japan   13 2017-06-24      Canada   28       United States   28 2017-06-24      Argentina   45       Georgia   29 2017-06-24      Fiji   27       Scotland   22 2017-06-24      Romania   56       Brazil   5 2017-06-24      Kenya   33       Uganda   33 2017-06-24      Zimbabwe   28       Senegal   16 2017-07-01      Tonga   30       Samoa   26 2017-07-01      United States   52       Canada   16 2017-07-01      Namibia   53       Tunisia   7 2017-07-01      Uganda   17       Senegal   16 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)