World Rugby Rankings^TM, June 2019

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Wales (2) 3 England (3) 4 Ireland (4) 5 South Africa (5) 6 France (9) +3 7 Scotland (6) -1 8 Australia (7) -1 9 Argentina (10) +1 10 Italy (12) +2 11 Fiji (8) -3 12 Japan (11) -1 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Uruguay (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Samoa (17) 18 Spain (18) 19 Romania (19) 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 (30) 31 Netherlands (31) 32 Uganda (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Poland (34) 35 Morocco (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Ukraine (37) 38 Sweden (38) 39 Algeria (39) 40 Cote d'Ivoire (40) 41 Paraguay (41) 42 Malaysia (42) 43 Czech Republic (43) 44 Luxembourg (44) 45 Latvia (46) +1 46 Denmark (45) -1 47 Tunisia (47) 48 Zimbabwe (48) 49 Senegal (49) 50 Zambia (50) 51 Madagascar (51) 52 Botswana (52) 53 Malta (53) 54 Croatia (54) 55 Israel (55) 56 Gibraltar (56) 57 Hungary (57) 58 Moldova (58) 59 Serbia (67) +8 60 Cyprus (59) -1 61 Finland (60) -1 62 Norway (61) -1 63 Austria (62) -1 64 Mauritius (63) -1 65 Bosnia (64) -1 66 Slovenia (65) -1 67 Bulgaria (66) -1 68 Turkey (69) +1 69 Andorra (68) -1 70 Slovakia (70) 71 Montenegro (71) 72 Estonia (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 878 (gross) 218.7 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 717.5 [81.7%] (gross) 193.8 [88.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-05-04      Luxembourg   18       Hungary   15 2019-05-04      Latvia   38       Denmark   3 2019-05-11      Brazil   66       Paraguay   10 2019-05-11      Sweden   36       Hungary   27 2019-05-11      Serbia   35       Slovenia   27 2019-05-11      Bulgaria   41       Andorra   20 2019-05-18      South Korea   52       Malaysia   14 2019-05-19      Ukraine   23       Sweden   14 2019-05-25      South Korea   38       Malaysia   16 2019-05-25      Chile   53       Paraguay   10 2019-05-25      Latvia   30       Norway   13 2019-05-25      Turkey   43       Estonia   19 2019-06-01      Finland   34       Norway   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)