World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2019

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 New Zealand (2) 3 Wales (4) +1 4 England (3) -1 5 South Africa (5) 6 Scotland (6) 7 Australia (7) 8 Fiji (8) 9 France (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Uruguay (16) 17 Romania (17) 18 Samoa (18) 19 Spain (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Namibia (22) +1 22 Brazil (25) +3 23 Canada (21) -2 24 Hong Kong (23) -1 25 Belgium (26) +1 26 Chile (27) +1 27 Germany (24) -3 28 Portugal (28) 29 South Korea (29) 30 Netherlands (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Switzerland (32) 33 Uganda (38) +5 34 Poland (33) -1 35 Lithuania (34) -1 36 Czech Republic (35) -1 37 Ukraine (36) -1 38 Sweden (37) -1 39 Morocco (39) 40 Algeria (40) 41 Cote d'Ivoire (41) 42 Paraguay (42) 43 Malaysia (43) 44 Latvia (44) 45 Luxembourg (45) 46 Malta (46) 47 Croatia (47) 48 Israel (48) 49 Gibraltar (49) 50 Tunisia (50) 51 Zimbabwe (51) 52 Senegal (52) 53 Zambia (53) 54 Madagascar (54) 55 Botswana (55) 56 Bosnia (56) 57 Andorra (57) 58 Hungary (59) +1 59 Moldova (60) +1 60 Cyprus (58) -2 61 Finland (61) 62 Denmark (62) 63 Norway (63) 64 Austria (64) 65 Slovenia (65) 66 Bulgaria (66) 67 Serbia (67) 68 Turkey (68) 69 Mauritius (69) 70 Slovakia (70) 71 Estonia (71) 72 Montenegro (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 882 (gross) 222.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 721.5 [81.8%] (gross) 196.0 [88.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-02-02      England   32       Ireland   20 2019-02-02      Scotland   33       Italy   20 2019-02-02      United States   71       Chile   8 2019-02-02      Uruguay   20       Canada   17 2019-02-08      Uruguay   20       Chile   5 2019-02-09      Ireland   22       Scotland   13 2019-02-09      Wales   26       Italy   15 2019-02-09      Brazil   18       Canada   10 2019-02-09      Belgium   29       Germany   22 2019-02-09      Georgia   18       Romania   9 2019-02-10      England   44       France   8 2019-02-10      Spain   16       Russia   14 2019-02-16      Romania   38       Germany   10 2019-02-16      Russia   64       Belgium   7 2019-02-16      Portugal   65       Poland   5 2019-02-17      Georgia   24       Spain   10 2019-02-23      Wales   21       England   13 2019-02-23      France   27       Scotland   10 2019-02-23      Canada   56       Chile   0 2019-02-24      Ireland   26       Italy   16 2019-02-24      United States   33       Brazil   28 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)