World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 2019

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 England (3) +2 2 Ireland (4) +2 3 New Zealand (1) -2 4 Wales (2) -2 5 South Africa (5) 6 France (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Australia (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Italy (11) +1 11 Japan (10) -1 12 Fiji (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 United States (14) 15 Samoa (15) 16 Tonga (16) 17 Spain (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Romania (19) 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 Zimbabwe (32) +1 32 Kenya (31) -1 33 Uganda (33) 34 Switzerland (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 Morocco (36) 37 Algeria (37) 38 Malaysia (38) 39 Zambia (43) +4 40 Cote d'Ivoire (39) -1 41 Lithuania (40) -1 42 Ukraine (41) -1 43 Sweden (42) -1 44 Paraguay (44) 45 Madagascar (45) 46 Czech Republic (46) 47 Luxembourg (47) 48 Latvia (48) 49 Denmark (49) 50 Tunisia (50) 51 Senegal (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 Bosnia (64) 65 Slovenia (65) 66 Bulgaria (66) 67 Turkey (67) 68 Andorra (68) 69 Slovakia (69) 70 Montenegro (70) 71 Estonia (71) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 873 (gross) 219.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 712.5 [81.6%] (gross) 192.3 [87.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-08-03      Japan   41       Tonga   7 2019-08-03      United States   13       Samoa   10 2019-08-03      Fiji   38       Canada   13 2019-08-03      Zimbabwe   30       Kenya   29 2019-08-09      Tonga   33       Canada   23 2019-08-10      Australia   47       New Zealand   26 2019-08-10      South Africa   46       Argentina   13 2019-08-10      Ireland   29       Italy   10 2019-08-10      Japan   34       United States   20 2019-08-10      Fiji   10       Samoa   3 2019-08-11      England   33       Wales   19 2019-08-17      New Zealand   36       Australia   0 2019-08-17      South Africa   24       Argentina   18 2019-08-17      Wales   13       England   6 2019-08-17      France   32       Scotland   3 2019-08-17      Italy   85       Russia   15 2019-08-17      Uganda   38       Zambia   22 2019-08-24      England   57       Ireland   15 2019-08-24      Scotland   17       France   14 2019-08-24      Kenya   31       Zambia   16 2019-08-24      Zimbabwe   32       Uganda   26 2019-08-30      France   47       Italy   19 2019-08-31      Fiji   29       Tonga   19 2019-08-31      Uganda   35       Zambia   28 2019-08-31      Ireland   22       Wales   17 2019-08-31      Scotland   44       Georgia   10 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)