World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Ireland (6) +4 3 England (2) -1 4 South Africa (5) +1 5 France (7) +2 6 Scotland (9) +3 7 Australia (3) -4 8 Wales (4) -4 9 Argentina (10) +1 10 Fiji (8) -2 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 Hong Kong (25) +2 24 Chile (28) +4 25 Germany (23) -2 26 Kenya (24) -2 27 Brazil (29) +2 28 Belgium (26) -2 29 Portugal (30) +1 30 Uganda (27) -3 31 South Korea (32) +1 32 Netherlands (31) -1 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Czech Republic (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Moldova (37) 38 Ukraine (38) 39 Paraguay (39) 40 Malta (41) +1 41 Croatia (40) -1 42 Tunisia (42) 43 Zimbabwe (43) 44 Senegal (44) 45 Israel (45) 46 Madagascar (48) +2 47 Latvia (46) -1 48 Sweden (47) -1 49 Luxembourg (49) 50 Cote d'Ivoire (50) 51 Sri Lanka (55) +4 52 Botswana (51) -1 53 Andorra (52) -1 54 Cyprus (53) -1 55 Hungary (54) -1 56 Philippines (62) +6 57 Austria (56) -1 58 Bosnia (57) -1 59 Slovenia (58) -1 60 Serbia (59) -1 61 Denmark (60) -1 62 Turkey (61) -1 63 Finland (63) 64 Norway (64) 65 Bulgaria (65) 66 Estonia (n/a) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 831 (gross) 243.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 690.5 [83.1%] (gross) 216.3 [88.8%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-10-01      Hungary   53       Estonia   5 2016-10-22      Finland   51       Estonia   6 2017-04-29      Denmark   75       Estonia   12 2017-05-06      Norway   43       Estonia   16 2017-11-04      Australia   60       Japan   30 2017-11-04      Lithuania   22       Ukraine   12 2017-11-04      Malta   56       Croatia   8 2017-11-10      Russia   16       Hong Kong   13 2017-11-10      Chile   23       Kenya   3 2017-11-11      New Zealand   38       France   18 2017-11-11      England   21       Argentina   8 2017-11-11      Ireland   38       South Africa   3 2017-11-11      Australia   29       Wales   21 2017-11-11      Scotland   44       Samoa   38 2017-11-11      Georgia   54       Canada   22 2017-11-11      Italy   19       Fiji   10 2017-11-11      Germany   45       Brazil   12 2017-11-11      Netherlands   59       Moldova   7 2017-11-11      Israel   44       Bosnia   8 2017-11-11      Luxembourg   65       Estonia   0 2017-11-11      Cyprus   42       Austria   5 2017-11-14      Russia   31       Kenya   10 2017-11-14      Hong Kong   13       Chile   6 2017-11-18      New Zealand   22       Scotland   17 2017-11-18      England   30       Australia   6 2017-11-18      Ireland   23       Fiji   20 2017-11-18      South Africa   18       France   17 2017-11-18      Argentina   31       Italy   15 2017-11-18      Wales   13       Georgia   6 2017-11-18      Japan   39       Tonga   6 2017-11-18      Romania   17       Samoa   13 2017-11-18      Uruguay   52       Namibia   36 2017-11-18      United States   46       Germany   17 2017-11-18      Canada   37       Spain   27 2017-11-18      Brazil   23       Belgium   19 2017-11-18      Poland   13       Moldova   0 2017-11-18      Netherlands   30       Switzerland   17 2017-11-18      Portugal   45       Czech Republic   12 2017-11-18      Russia   42       Chile   11 2017-11-18      Hong Kong   40       Kenya   30 2017-11-25      New Zealand   33       Wales   18 2017-11-25      England   48       Samoa   14 2017-11-25      Scotland   53       Australia   24 2017-11-25      Ireland   31       Argentina   13 2017-11-25      South Africa   35       Italy   6 2017-11-25      France   23       Japan   23 2017-11-25      Georgia   21       United States   20 2017-11-25      Fiji   57       Canada   17 2017-11-25      Uruguay   39       Namibia   34 2017-11-25      Tonga   25       Romania   20 2017-11-25      Spain   67       Brazil   28 2017-11-25      Chile   32       Germany   10 2017-11-25      Switzerland   22       Moldova   20 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)