World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 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 (25) 26 Germany (26) 27 Kenya (27) 28 Brazil (28) 29 Belgium (29) 30 Portugal (30) 31 Uganda (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Czech Republic (33) 34 Switzerland (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 Moldova (36) 37 Lithuania (37) 38 Paraguay (39) +1 39 Malta (45) +6 40 Ukraine (38) -2 41 Tunisia (40) -1 42 Zimbabwe (41) -1 43 Cote d'Ivoire (42) -1 44 Senegal (43) -1 45 Madagascar (44) -1 46 Croatia (46) 47 Israel (47) 48 Latvia (50) +2 49 Sweden (51) +2 50 Luxembourg (52) +2 51 Botswana (49) -2 52 Bosnia (54) +2 53 Andorra (55) +2 54 Cyprus (56) +2 55 Hungary (57) +2 56 Austria (58) +2 57 Slovenia (59) +2 58 Serbia (60) +2 59 Denmark (61) +2 60 Turkey (62) +2 61 Finland (63) +2 62 Norway (64) +2 63 Bulgaria (65) +2 64 Estonia (66) +2 65 Slovakia (67) +2 66 Montenegro (n/a) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 839 (gross) 225.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 705.5 [84.1%] (gross) 199.6 [88.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2015-04-11      Montenegro   29       Estonia   27 2015-04-14      Slovakia   31       Montenegro   3 2016-05-18      Estonia   16       Montenegro   13 2017-05-14      Slovakia   32       Montenegro   20 2017-05-20      Montenegro   42       Bulgaria   19 2018-04-07      Austria   22       Slovenia   18 2018-04-14      Luxembourg   45       Finland   15 2018-04-14      Bulgaria   57       Montenegro   0 2018-04-21      Czech Republic   35       Moldova   21 2018-04-21      Lithuania   29       Hungary   25 2018-04-21      Serbia   50       Slovakia   24 2018-04-28      Lithuania   43       Sweden   22 2018-04-28      Ukraine   19       Hungary   19 2018-04-28      Croatia   27       Bosnia   6 2018-04-28      Luxembourg   35       Norway   16 2018-04-28      Denmark   127       Estonia   5 2018-04-28      Serbia   35       Cyprus   17 2018-04-28      Turkey   13       Montenegro   8 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)