World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 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 Kenya (30) +1 30 Portugal (29) -1 31 Netherlands (32) +1 32 Uganda (31) -1 33 Czech Republic (34) +1 34 Lithuania (35) +1 35 Morocco (33) -2 36 Switzerland (36) 37 Poland (37) 38 Moldova (38) 39 Ukraine (39) 40 Algeria (40) 41 Sweden (41) 42 Malaysia (n/a) 43 Paraguay (42) -1 44 Tunisia (43) -1 45 Zimbabwe (44) -1 46 Cote d'Ivoire (45) -1 47 Senegal (46) -1 48 Malta (47) -1 49 Latvia (48) -1 50 Luxembourg (49) -1 51 Croatia (50) -1 52 Israel (51) -1 53 Zambia (52) -1 54 Madagascar (53) -1 55 Botswana (54) -1 56 Bosnia (55) -1 57 Andorra (56) -1 58 Cyprus (57) -1 59 Hungary (58) -1 60 Mauritius (n/a) 61 Austria (59) -2 62 Slovenia (60) -2 63 Serbia (61) -2 64 Denmark (62) -2 65 Bulgaria (63) -2 66 Turkey (64) -2 67 Finland (65) -2 68 Norway (66) -2 69 Estonia (67) -2 70 Slovakia (68) -2 71 Montenegro (69) -2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 873 (gross) 230.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 730.5 [83.7%] (gross) 200.8 [87.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2015-06-14      Malaysia   19       Algeria   11 2015-07-05      Senegal   42       Mauritius   3 2015-07-08      Uganda   35       Mauritius   11 2015-07-11      Madagascar   33       Mauritius   24 2016-07-10      Morocco   68       Mauritius   3 2017-04-22      Zambia   69       Mauritius   3 2018-04-28      South Korea   35       Malaysia   10 2018-05-05      Hong Kong   67       Malaysia   8 2018-05-19      South Korea   ?       Malaysia   12 2018-05-26      Hong Kong   91       Malaysia   10 2018-08-04      Uganda   67       Tunisia   12 2018-08-04      Namibia   58       Zimbabwe   28 2018-08-11      Kenya   67       Tunisia   0 2018-08-11      Uganda   47       Morocco   29 2018-08-18      New Zealand   38       Australia   13 2018-08-18      South Africa   34       Argentina   21 2018-08-18      Namibia   53       Kenya   28 2018-08-18      Tunisia   36       Morocco   13 2018-08-18      Zimbabwe   38       Uganda   18 2018-08-25      New Zealand   40       Australia   12 2018-08-25      Argentina   32       South Africa   19 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)