World Rugby Rankings^TM, July 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 Spain (20) +1 20 Russia (21) +1 21 Canada (19) -2 22 Namibia (22) 23 Hong Kong (23) 24 South Korea (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Brazil (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Chile (29) +1 29 Portugal (28) -1 30 Kenya (30) 31 Uganda (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Morocco (n/a) 34 Czech Republic (33) -1 35 Lithuania (34) -1 36 Switzerland (35) -1 37 Poland (36) -1 38 Moldova (37) -1 39 Ukraine (38) -1 40 Sweden (39) -1 41 Paraguay (45) +4 42 Tunisia (40) -2 43 Zimbabwe (41) -2 44 Cote d'Ivoire (42) -2 45 Senegal (43) -2 46 Madagascar (44) -2 47 Malta (46) -1 48 Latvia (47) -1 49 Luxembourg (48) -1 50 Croatia (49) -1 51 Israel (50) -1 52 Botswana (51) -1 53 Bosnia (52) -1 54 Andorra (53) -1 55 Cyprus (54) -1 56 Hungary (55) -1 57 Austria (56) -1 58 Slovenia (57) -1 59 Serbia (58) -1 60 Denmark (59) -1 61 Bulgaria (60) -1 62 Turkey (61) -1 63 Finland (62) -1 64 Norway (63) -1 65 Estonia (64) -1 66 Slovakia (65) -1 67 Montenegro (66) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 843 (gross) 241.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 704 [83.5%] (gross) 210.0 [87.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-12-21      Morocco   14       Tunisia   12 2017-07-05      Morocco   57       Madagascar   33 2017-07-08      Morocco   8       Cote d'Ivoire   3 2017-12-17      Morocco   17       Tunisia   16 2018-06-02      Wales   22       South Africa   20 2018-06-02      Hong Kong   39       South Korea   5 2018-06-09      New Zealand   52       France   11 2018-06-09      Australia   18       Ireland   9 2018-06-09      South Africa   42       England   39 2018-06-09      Wales   23       Argentina   10 2018-06-09      Scotland   48       Canada   10 2018-06-09      Japan   34       Italy   17 2018-06-09      Georgia   16       Tonga   15 2018-06-09      Fiji   24       Samoa   22 2018-06-09      United States   62       Russia   13 2018-06-09      Finland   77       Estonia   10 2018-06-16      New Zealand   26       France   13 2018-06-16      Ireland   26       Australia   21 2018-06-16      South Africa   23       England   12 2018-06-16      Wales   30       Argentina   12 2018-06-16      Italy   25       Japan   22 2018-06-16      Fiji   37       Georgia   15 2018-06-16      Tonga   28       Samoa   18 2018-06-16      United States   30       Scotland   29 2018-06-16      Russia   43       Canada   20 2018-06-16      Germany   16       Portugal   13 2018-06-16      Namibia   55       Uganda   6 2018-06-16      Zimbabwe   23       Morocco   23 2018-06-23      Tonga   27       Fiji   19 2018-06-23      New Zealand   49       France   14 2018-06-23      Ireland   20       Australia   16 2018-06-23      England   25       South Africa   10 2018-06-23      Scotland   44       Argentina   15 2018-06-23      United States   42       Canada   17 2018-06-23      Japan   28       Georgia   0 2018-06-23      Kenya   28       Morocco   24 2018-06-23      Namibia   118       Tunisia   0 2018-06-30      Namibia   63       Morocco   7 2018-06-30      Kenya   45       Zimbabwe   36 2018-06-30      Samoa   66       Germany   15 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)