World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 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 Hong Kong (26) +1 26 Belgium (25) -1 27 Uganda (27) 28 Chile (28) 29 Brazil (29) 30 Portugal (30) 31 Netherlands (31) 32 Switzerland (32) 33 South Korea (33) 34 Czech Republic (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Moldova (37) 38 Malta (38) 39 Ukraine (39) 40 Paraguay (40) 41 Tunisia (41) 42 Zimbabwe (42) 43 Israel (43) 44 Croatia (44) 45 Latvia (45) 46 Sweden (46) 47 Senegal (47) 48 Madagascar (50) +2 49 Luxembourg (51) +2 50 Cote d'Ivoire (52) +2 51 Sri Lanka (53) +2 52 Botswana (54) +2 53 Andorra (57) +4 54 Cyprus (58) +4 55 Hungary (59) +4 56 Bosnia (60) +4 57 Slovenia (61) +4 58 Serbia (62) +4 59 Philippines (63) +4 60 Austria (66) +6 61 Denmark (67) +6 62 Turkey (69) +7 63 Norway (70) +7 64 Finland (71) +7 65 Bulgaria (72) +7 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 835 (gross) 220.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 692.5 [82.9%] (gross) 192.3 [87.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-08-05      Uganda   38       Zimbabwe   12 2017-08-05      Tunisia   26       Senegal   18 2017-08-19      New Zealand   54       Australia   34 2017-08-19      South Africa   37       Argentina   15 2017-08-20      Kenya   19       Hong Kong   19 2017-08-26      New Zealand   35       Australia   29 2017-08-26      South Africa   41       Argentina   23 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/) ©1996-2017 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2016 Paul Waite)