World Rugby Rankings^TM, June 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 South Korea (25) +1 25 Germany (26) +1 26 Brazil (28) +2 27 Belgium (29) +2 28 Portugal (30) +2 29 Chile (24) -5 30 Kenya (27) -3 31 Uganda (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Czech Republic (33) 34 Lithuania (37) +3 35 Switzerland (34) -1 36 Poland (35) -1 37 Moldova (36) -1 38 Ukraine (40) +2 39 Sweden (49) +10 40 Tunisia (41) +1 41 Zimbabwe (42) +1 42 Cote d'Ivoire (43) +1 43 Senegal (44) +1 44 Madagascar (45) +1 45 Paraguay (38) -7 46 Malta (39) -7 47 Latvia (48) +1 48 Luxembourg (50) +2 49 Croatia (46) -3 50 Israel (47) -3 51 Botswana (51) 52 Bosnia (52) 53 Andorra (53) 54 Cyprus (54) 55 Hungary (55) 56 Austria (56) 57 Slovenia (57) 58 Serbia (58) 59 Denmark (59) 60 Bulgaria (63) +3 61 Turkey (60) -1 62 Finland (61) -1 63 Norway (62) -1 64 Estonia (64) 65 Slovakia (65) 66 Montenegro (66) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 840 (gross) 222.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 700 [83.3%] (gross) 195.5 [88.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2018-05-05      Brazil   28       Chile   12 2018-05-05      Ukraine   32       Latvia   14 2018-05-05      Andorra   18       Croatia   18 2018-05-05      Bulgaria   39       Turkey   25 2018-05-12      Hong Kong   30       South Korea   21 2018-05-12      Chile   22       Uruguay   20 2018-05-12      Sweden   50       Latvia   27 2018-05-12      Denmark   57       Finland   10 2018-05-12      Norway   47       Estonia   16 2018-05-19      Chile   97       Paraguay   0 2018-05-19      Lithuania   81       Malta   0 2018-05-26      Kenya   34       Uganda   16 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)