World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2019

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (2) +1 2 Wales (3) +1 3 England (4) +1 4 Ireland (1) -3 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 Uruguay (16) +1 16 United States (15) -1 17 Samoa (18) +1 18 Spain (19) +1 19 Romania (17) -2 20 Russia (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Brazil (22) 23 Canada (23) 24 Hong Kong (24) 25 Belgium (25) 26 Chile (26) 27 Germany (27) 28 Portugal (28) 29 South Korea (29) 30 Kenya (31) +1 31 Netherlands (30) -1 32 Uganda (33) +1 33 Switzerland (32) -1 34 Poland (34) 35 Morocco (39) +4 36 Lithuania (35) -1 37 Ukraine (37) 38 Sweden (38) 39 Algeria (40) +1 40 Cote d'Ivoire (41) +1 41 Paraguay (42) +1 42 Malaysia (43) +1 43 Czech Republic (36) -7 44 Latvia (44) 45 Luxembourg (45) 46 Denmark (62) +16 47 Tunisia (50) +3 48 Zimbabwe (51) +3 49 Senegal (52) +3 50 Zambia (53) +3 51 Madagascar (54) +3 52 Botswana (55) +3 53 Malta (46) -7 54 Croatia (47) -7 55 Israel (48) -7 56 Gibraltar (49) -7 57 Hungary (58) +1 58 Moldova (59) +1 59 Cyprus (60) +1 60 Finland (61) +1 61 Norway (63) +2 62 Austria (64) +2 63 Mauritius (69) +6 64 Bosnia (56) -8 65 Slovenia (65) 66 Bulgaria (66) 67 Serbia (67) 68 Turkey (68) 69 Andorra (57) -12 70 Slovakia (70) 71 Montenegro (72) +1 72 Estonia (71) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 888 (gross) 226.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 720 [81.1%] (gross) 200.3 [88.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-03-02      Russia   26       Germany   18 2019-03-02      Georgia   46       Belgium   6 2019-03-02      Uruguay   32       United States   25 2019-03-03      Brazil   15       Chile   10 2019-03-03      Spain   21       Romania   18 2019-03-09      Wales   18       Scotland   11 2019-03-09      England   57       Italy   14 2019-03-09      Romania   22       Russia   20 2019-03-09      United States   30       Canada   25 2019-03-09      Uruguay   42       Brazil   20 2019-03-09      Portugal   18       Netherlands   5 2019-03-10      Ireland   26       France   14 2019-03-10      Spain   47       Belgium   9 2019-03-10      Georgia   52       Germany   3 2019-03-16      Wales   25       Ireland   7 2019-03-16      France   25       Italy   14 2019-03-16      England   38       Scotland   38 2019-03-16      Portugal   48       Switzerland   14 2019-03-16      Netherlands   24       Czech Republic   20 2019-03-16      Israel   40       Bosnia   0 2019-03-17      Georgia   22       Russia   6 2019-03-17      Spain   33       Germany   10 2019-03-17      Romania   43       Belgium   17 2019-03-23      Portugal   93       Czech Republic   0 2019-03-23      Switzerland   28       Poland   25 2019-03-23      Malta   37       Cyprus   10 2019-03-30      Finland   32       Austria   29 2019-04-06      Portugal   48       Lithuania   7 2019-04-06      Cyprus   23       Bosnia   22 2019-04-13      Switzerland   34       Lithuania   24 2019-04-13      Luxembourg   23       Moldova   10 2019-04-13      Malta   18       Croatia   18 2019-04-13      Denmark   26       Gibraltar   22 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)