World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (2) 3 Australia (3) 4 Wales (4) 5 South Africa (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 France (7) 8 Fiji (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Tonga (13) 14 Italy (14) 15 Romania (15) 16 Samoa (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Canada (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Russia (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Germany (23) 24 Kenya (24) 25 Belgium (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Uganda (27) 28 Chile (28) 29 Brazil (29) 30 Portugal (30) 31 Netherlands (32) +1 32 Switzerland (33) +1 33 South Korea (34) +1 34 Czech Republic (35) +1 35 Poland (36) +1 36 Lithuania (37) +1 37 Moldova (40) +3 38 Malta (41) +3 39 Ukraine (42) +3 40 Paraguay (43) +3 41 Tunisia (39) -2 42 Zimbabwe (31) -11 43 Israel (47) +4 44 Croatia (48) +4 45 Latvia (49) +4 46 Sweden (50) +4 47 Senegal (38) -9 48 Malaysia (44) -4 49 Algeria (45) -4 50 Madagascar (46) -4 51 Luxembourg (53) +2 52 Cote d'Ivoire (51) -1 53 Sri Lanka (54) +1 54 Botswana (52) -2 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: 863 (gross) 240.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 714 [82.7%] (gross) 210.3 [87.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-07-05      Cote d'Ivoire   58       Botswana   25 2017-07-08      Fiji   14       Tonga   10 2017-07-08      Kenya   100       Tunisia   10 2017-07-08      Namibia   95       Senegal   0 2017-07-08      Madagascar   47       Botswana   19 2017-07-15      Fiji   38       Samoa   16 2017-07-15      Kenya   45       Senegal   25 2017-07-15      Uganda   78       Tunisia   17 2017-07-15      Namibia   31       Zimbabwe   26 2017-07-22      Namibia   48       Uganda   24 2017-07-22      Kenya   41       Zimbabwe   22 2017-07-29      Tunisia   31       Zimbabwe   23 2017-07-29      Namibia   45       Kenya   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)