World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 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 (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Hong Kong (23) 24 South Korea (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Brazil (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Chile (28) 29 Portugal (29) 30 Kenya (30) 31 Uganda (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Morocco (33) 34 Czech Republic (34) 35 Lithuania (35) 36 Switzerland (36) 37 Poland (37) 38 Moldova (38) 39 Ukraine (39) 40 Algeria (n/a) 41 Sweden (40) -1 42 Paraguay (41) -1 43 Tunisia (42) -1 44 Zimbabwe (43) -1 45 Cote d'Ivoire (44) -1 46 Senegal (45) -1 47 Malta (47) 48 Latvia (48) 49 Luxembourg (49) 50 Croatia (50) 51 Israel (51) 52 Zambia (n/a) 53 Madagascar (46) -7 54 Botswana (52) -2 55 Bosnia (53) -2 56 Andorra (54) -2 57 Cyprus (55) -2 58 Hungary (56) -2 59 Austria (57) -2 60 Slovenia (58) -2 61 Serbia (59) -2 62 Denmark (60) -2 63 Bulgaria (61) -2 64 Turkey (62) -2 65 Finland (63) -2 66 Norway (64) -2 67 Estonia (65) -2 68 Slovakia (66) -2 69 Montenegro (67) -2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 856 (gross) 233.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 716 [83.6%] (gross) 204.4 [87.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-06-12      Madagascar   24       Zambia   15 2016-06-15      Senegal   54       Zambia   3 2016-12-17      Morocco   12       Algeria   11 2016-12-24      Tunisia   16       Algeria   15 2017-06-03      Zimbabwe   64       Zambia   3 2017-11-04      Algeria   30       Zambia   25 2017-12-20      Algeria   36       Tunisia   13 2017-12-23      Morocco   20       Algeria   13 2018-07-07      Kenya   38       Uganda   22 2018-07-07      Tunisia   18       Zimbabwe   14 2018-07-08      Algeria   22       Senegal   18 2018-07-08      Zambia   32       Botswana   13 2018-07-11      Cote d'Ivoire   25       Senegal   21 2018-07-11      Madagascar   64       Botswana   18 2018-07-14      Samoa   42       Germany   28 2018-07-14      Algeria   23       Cote d'Ivoire   13 2018-07-14      Zambia   31       Madagascar   29 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/) ©1996-2018 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2018 Paul Waite)