World Rugby Rankings^TM, July 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 (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Australia (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Spain (18) +3 16 Uruguay (15) -1 17 United States (16) -1 18 Romania (19) +1 19 Samoa (17) -2 20 Russia (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Brazil (22) 23 Canada (23) 24 Hong Kong (24) 25 Chile (26) +1 26 Belgium (25) -1 27 Portugal (28) +1 28 Germany (27) -1 29 Netherlands (31) +2 30 South Korea (29) -1 31 Kenya (30) -1 32 Uganda (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Poland (34) 35 Morocco (35) 36 Malaysia (42) +6 37 Lithuania (36) -1 38 Ukraine (37) -1 39 Sweden (38) -1 40 Algeria (39) -1 41 Cote d'Ivoire (40) -1 42 Paraguay (41) -1 43 Czech Republic (43) 44 Luxembourg (44) 45 Latvia (45) 46 Denmark (46) 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 (59) 60 Cyprus (60) 61 Finland (61) 62 Norway (62) 63 Austria (63) 64 Mauritius (64) 65 Bosnia (65) 66 Slovenia (66) 67 Bulgaria (67) 68 Turkey (68) 69 Andorra (69) 70 Slovakia (70) 71 Montenegro (71) 72 Estonia (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 885 (gross) 217.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 722.5 [81.6%] (gross) 191.8 [88.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-06-04      Uruguay   48       Russia   26 2019-06-08      Hong Kong   47       South Korea   10 2019-06-08      Romania   27       Chile   11 2019-06-08      Spain   22       Brazil   16 2019-06-08      Netherlands   50       Lithuania   3 2019-06-09      Namibia   30       Uruguay   28 2019-06-15      Hong Kong   30       Malaysia   24 2019-06-15      Russia   20       Namibia   0 2019-06-15      Portugal   37       Germany   22 2019-06-15      Spain   29       Chile   22 2019-06-15      Romania   22       Brazil   21 2019-06-22      Spain   41       Uruguay   21 2019-06-22      Hong Kong   71       Malaysia   0 2019-06-22      Uganda   16       Kenya   13 2019-06-29      Hong Kong   64       South Korea   3 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)