World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2018

"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 Wales (5) 6 South Africa (6) 7 Fiji (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 France (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 Hong Kong (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 South Korea (31) +6 26 Germany (25) -1 27 Kenya (26) -1 28 Brazil (27) -1 29 Belgium (28) -1 30 Portugal (29) -1 31 Uganda (30) -1 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Czech Republic (34) +1 34 Switzerland (33) -1 35 Poland (35) 36 Moldova (38) +2 37 Lithuania (36) -1 38 Ukraine (39) +1 39 Paraguay (37) -2 40 Tunisia (40) 41 Zimbabwe (41) 42 Cote d'Ivoire (42) 43 Senegal (43) 44 Madagascar (45) +1 45 Malta (44) -1 46 Croatia (46) 47 Israel (47) 48 Sri Lanka (52) +4 49 Botswana (50) +1 50 Latvia (48) -2 51 Sweden (49) -2 52 Luxembourg (51) -1 53 Philippines (53) 54 Bosnia (58) +4 55 Andorra (54) -1 56 Cyprus (55) -1 57 Hungary (56) -1 58 Austria (57) -1 59 Slovenia (59) 60 Serbia (60) 61 Denmark (61) 62 Turkey (62) 63 Finland (63) 64 Norway (64) 65 Bulgaria (65) 66 Estonia (66) 67 Slovakia (n/a) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 855 (gross) 231.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 716 [83.7%] (gross) 204.8 [88.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-05-21      Estonia   36       Slovakia   29 2017-05-17      Bulgaria   22       Slovakia   20 2017-11-04      Slovenia   29       Slovakia   15 2017-11-25      Cyprus   38       Slovakia   6 2018-03-10      Ireland   28       Scotland   8 2018-03-10      France   22       England   16 2018-03-10      Romania   62       Belgium   12 2018-03-10      Georgia   29       Russia   9 2018-03-10      Portugal   29       Moldova   10 2018-03-10      Czech Republic   17       Switzerland   13 2018-03-11      Wales   38       Italy   14 2018-03-11      Spain   84       Germany   10 2018-03-17      Ireland   24       England   15 2018-03-17      Wales   14       France   13 2018-03-17      Scotland   29       Italy   27 2018-03-17      Switzerland   30       Poland   24 2018-03-17      Netherlands   27       Czech Republic   10 2018-03-17      Bosnia   20       Andorra   17 2018-03-17      Malta   24       Israel   17 2018-03-18      Belgium   18       Spain   10 2018-03-18      Russia   57       Germany   3 2018-03-18      Georgia   25       Romania   16 2018-03-24      Malta   89       Andorra   3 2018-03-24      Austria   56       Slovakia   0 2018-03-24      Cyprus   17       Slovenia   5 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)