World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 2019

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 England (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 Wales (4) 5 South Africa (5) 6 France (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Australia (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (13) +1 13 Spain (17) +4 14 Uruguay (18) +4 15 Fiji (12) -3 16 United States (14) -2 17 Samoa (15) -2 18 Tonga (16) -2 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 South Korea (30) +1 30 Netherlands (29) -1 31 Kenya (32) +1 32 Zimbabwe (31) -1 33 Uganda (33) 34 Switzerland (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 Morocco (36) 37 Algeria (37) 38 Malaysia (38) 39 Cote d'Ivoire (40) +1 40 Lithuania (41) +1 41 Ukraine (42) +1 42 Zambia (39) -3 43 Sweden (43) 44 Paraguay (44) 45 Madagascar (45) 46 Czech Republic (46) 47 Luxembourg (47) 48 Latvia (48) 49 Tunisia (50) +1 50 Senegal (51) +1 51 Botswana (52) +1 52 Denmark (49) -3 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 Andorra (68) +1 68 Turkey (67) -1 69 Slovakia (69) 70 Montenegro (70) 71 Estonia (71) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 869 (gross) 229.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 708.5 [81.5%] (gross) 202.1 [87.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-09-06      South Africa   41       Japan   7 2019-09-06      Scotland   36       Georgia   9 2019-09-06      England   37       Italy   0 2019-09-07      New Zealand   92       Tonga   7 2019-09-07      Australia   34       Samoa   15 2019-09-07      Ireland   19       Wales   10 2019-09-07      United States   20       Canada   15 2019-09-14      Zimbabwe   41       Zambia   5 2019-09-20      Japan   30       Russia   10 2019-09-21      Australia   39       Fiji   21 2019-09-21      France   23       Argentina   21 2019-09-21      New Zealand   23       South Africa   13 2019-09-21      Kenya   36       Zimbabwe   14 2019-09-21      Czech Republic   64       Hungary   0 2019-09-22      Italy   47       Namibia   22 2019-09-22      Ireland   27       Scotland   3 2019-09-22      England   35       Tonga   3 2019-09-23      Wales   43       Georgia   14 2019-09-24      Samoa   34       Russia   9 2019-09-25      Uruguay   39       Fiji   27 2019-09-26      Italy   48       Canada   7 2019-09-26      England   45       United States   7 2019-09-28      Argentina   28       Tonga   12 2019-09-28      Japan   19       Ireland   12 2019-09-28      South Africa   57       Namibia   3 2019-09-29      Georgia   33       Uruguay   7 2019-09-29      Wales   29       Australia   25 2019-09-30      Scotland   34       Samoa   0 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)