World Rugby Rankings^TM, January 2020

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 England (3) 4 Japan (4) 5 Ireland (5) 6 Wales (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Australia (8) 9 Fiji (9) 10 France (10) 11 Argentina (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Spain (15) 16 Uruguay (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Romania (18) 19 Samoa (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Brazil (22) 23 Canada (23) 24 Hong Kong (24) 25 Belgium (26) +1 26 Portugal (27) +1 27 Netherlands (30) +3 28 Chile (25) -3 29 Germany (28) -1 30 South Korea (29) -1 31 Kenya (31) 32 Zimbabwe (32) 33 Uganda (33) 34 Poland (35) +1 35 Switzerland (34) -1 36 Ukraine (36) 37 Morocco (37) 38 Algeria (38) 39 Cote d'Ivoire (40) +1 40 Malaysia (39) -1 41 Lithuania (42) +1 42 Zambia (41) -1 43 Czech Republic (45) +2 44 Paraguay (43) -1 45 Madagascar (44) -1 46 Luxembourg (46) 47 Latvia (47) 48 Sweden (48) 49 Denmark (49) 50 Tunisia (50) 51 Senegal (51) 52 Botswana (52) 53 Malta (53) 54 Bulgaria (54) 55 Croatia (55) 56 Israel (56) 57 Gibraltar (57) 58 Hungary (58) 59 Finland (59) 60 Moldova (60) 61 Serbia (61) 62 Cyprus (62) 63 Austria (63) 64 Slovenia (64) 65 Turkey (65) 66 Norway (66) 67 Andorra (68) +1 68 Bosnia (67) -1 69 Montenegro (70) +1 70 Slovakia (69) -1 71 Estonia (71) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 870 (gross) 227.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 707 [81.3%] (gross) 201.0 [88.2%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2019-11-09      Brazil   26       Portugal   24 2019-11-09      Netherlands   64       Ukraine   8 2019-11-09      Malta   42       Slovenia   14 2019-11-09      Andorra   45       Bosnia   10 2019-11-16      Portugal   23       Chile   18 2019-11-16      Hong Kong   36       Belgium   17 2019-11-16      Switzerland   40       Lithuania   9 2019-11-16      Moldova   49       Austria   12 2019-11-23      Malta   18       Cyprus   16 2019-11-23      Spain   29       Hong Kong   7 2019-11-23      Poland   23       Switzerland   20 2019-11-23      Netherlands   37       Germany   7 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)