World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2018

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (2) +1 2 New Zealand (1) -1 3 England (3) 4 Wales (5) +1 5 South Africa (6) +1 6 Scotland (8) +2 7 Australia (4) -3 8 Fiji (7) -1 9 France (10) +1 10 Argentina (9) -1 11 Japan (11) 12 Italy (14) +2 13 Georgia (12) -1 14 Tonga (13) -1 15 United States (17) +2 16 Uruguay (18) +2 17 Romania (15) -2 18 Samoa (16) -2 19 Spain (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Hong Kong (23) 24 Germany (25) +1 25 Brazil (26) +1 26 Belgium (27) +1 27 Chile (28) +1 28 Portugal (30) +2 29 South Korea (24) -5 30 Netherlands (31) +1 31 Kenya (29) -2 32 Switzerland (35) +3 33 Poland (36) +3 34 Lithuania (32) -2 35 Czech Republic (37) +2 36 Ukraine (38) +2 37 Sweden (39) +2 38 Uganda (33) -5 39 Morocco (34) -5 40 Algeria (41) +1 41 Paraguay (45) +4 42 Malaysia (42) 43 Latvia (43) 44 Luxembourg (44) 45 Malta (50) +5 46 Croatia (51) +5 47 Israel (52) +5 48 Gibraltar (53) +5 49 Tunisia (46) -3 50 Zimbabwe (47) -3 51 Cote d'Ivoire (48) -3 52 Senegal (49) -3 53 Zambia (54) +1 54 Madagascar (55) +1 55 Botswana (56) +1 56 Bosnia (58) +2 57 Andorra (59) +2 58 Cyprus (60) +2 59 Hungary (61) +2 60 Moldova (40) -20 61 Finland (62) +1 62 Denmark (63) +1 63 Norway (64) +1 64 Austria (65) +1 65 Slovenia (66) +1 66 Bulgaria (67) +1 67 Serbia (68) +1 68 Turkey (69) +1 69 Mauritius (57) -12 70 Slovakia (71) +1 71 Estonia (70) -1 72 Montenegro (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 880 (gross) 253.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 728.5 [82.8%] (gross) 223.8 [88.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2018-11-03      England   12       South Africa   11 2018-11-03      New Zealand   69       Japan   31 2018-11-03      Wales   21       Scotland   10 2018-11-03      Ireland   54       Italy   7 2018-11-03      Poland   33       Lithuania   0 2018-11-03      Hungary   31       Moldova   16 2018-11-03      Sweden   10       Luxembourg   9 2018-11-03      Andorra   27       Slovakia   14 2018-11-10      New Zealand   16       England   15 2018-11-10      Wales   9       Australia   6 2018-11-10      Ireland   28       Argentina   17 2018-11-10      South Africa   29       France   26 2018-11-10      Scotland   54       Fiji   17 2018-11-10      United States   30       Samoa   29 2018-11-10      Italy   28       Georgia   17 2018-11-10      Romania   36       Portugal   6 2018-11-10      Russia   47       Namibia   20 2018-11-10      Ukraine   48       Hungary   24 2018-11-10      Israel   34       Cyprus   20 2018-11-10      Serbia   37       Slovakia   10 2018-11-11      Hong Kong   26       Germany   9 2018-11-11      Canada   65       Kenya   19 2018-11-17      Hong Kong   42       Kenya   17 2018-11-17      Canada   29       Germany   10 2018-11-17      Ireland   16       New Zealand   9 2018-11-17      Australia   26       Italy   7 2018-11-17      France   28       Argentina   13 2018-11-17      South Africa   26       Scotland   20 2018-11-17      United States   31       Romania   5 2018-11-17      Fiji   68       Uruguay   7 2018-11-17      Georgia   27       Samoa   19 2018-11-17      Wales   74       Tonga   24 2018-11-17      Spain   34       Namibia   13 2018-11-17      England   35       Japan   15 2018-11-23      Canada   27       Hong Kong   10 2018-11-23      Germany   43       Kenya   6 2018-11-24      England   37       Australia   18 2018-11-24      Wales   20       South Africa   11 2018-11-24      Scotland   14       Argentina   9 2018-11-24      New Zealand   66       Italy   3 2018-11-24      Fiji   21       France   14 2018-11-24      Ireland   57       United States   14 2018-11-24      Georgia   20       Tonga   9 2018-11-24      Japan   32       Russia   27 2018-11-24      Uruguay   27       Romania   20 2018-11-24      Samoa   28       Spain   10 2018-11-24      Namibia   29       Portugal   23 2018-11-24      Netherlands   36       Switzerland   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/) ©1996-2018 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2018 Paul Waite)