World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 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 Japan (12) +2 11 Italy (10) -1 12 Fiji (11) -1 13 Georgia (13) 14 United States (17) +3 15 Samoa (19) +4 16 Tonga (14) -2 17 Spain (15) -2 18 Uruguay (16) -2 19 Romania (18) -1 20 Russia (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Brazil (22) 23 Canada (23) 24 Hong Kong (24) 25 Chile (25) 26 Belgium (26) 27 Portugal (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 South Korea (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Zimbabwe (48) +16 33 Uganda (32) -1 34 Switzerland (33) -1 35 Poland (34) -1 36 Morocco (35) -1 37 Algeria (40) +3 38 Malaysia (36) -2 39 Cote d'Ivoire (41) +2 40 Lithuania (37) -3 41 Ukraine (38) -3 42 Sweden (39) -3 43 Zambia (50) +7 44 Paraguay (42) -2 45 Madagascar (51) +6 46 Czech Republic (43) -3 47 Luxembourg (44) -3 48 Latvia (45) -3 49 Denmark (46) -3 50 Tunisia (47) -3 51 Senegal (49) -2 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 Bosnia (65) +1 65 Slovenia (66) +1 66 Bulgaria (67) +1 67 Turkey (68) +1 68 Andorra (69) +1 69 Slovakia (70) +1 70 Montenegro (71) +1 71 Estonia (72) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 864 (gross) 210.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 703.5 [81.4%] (gross) 185.1 [88.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-07-13      Kenya   16       Uganda   5 2019-07-13      Zimbabwe   39       Zambia   10 2019-07-20      South Africa   35       Australia   17 2019-07-20      New Zealand   20       Argentina   16 2019-07-27      New Zealand   16       South Africa   16 2019-07-27      Australia   16       Argentina   10 2019-07-27      Japan   34       Fiji   21 2019-07-27      United States   47       Canada   19 2019-07-27      Samoa   25       Tonga   17 2019-07-27      Zimbabwe   31       Uganda   26 2019-07-27      Kenya   43       Zambia   23 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)