World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 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 United States (17) +2 16 Romania (18) +2 17 Samoa (19) +2 18 Spain (15) -3 19 Uruguay (16) -3 20 Russia (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Brazil (22) 23 Canada (23) 24 Portugal (26) +2 25 Hong Kong (24) -1 26 Netherlands (27) +1 27 Chile (28) +1 28 Belgium (25) -3 29 Germany (29) 30 South Korea (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Zimbabwe (32) 33 Uganda (33) 34 Poland (34) 35 Switzerland (35) 36 Ukraine (36) 37 Lithuania (41) +4 38 Morocco (37) -1 39 Algeria (38) -1 40 Cote d'Ivoire (39) -1 41 Malaysia (40) -1 42 Zambia (42) 43 Czech Republic (43) 44 Paraguay (44) 45 Madagascar (45) 46 Luxembourg (46) 47 Latvia (47) 48 Sweden (48) 49 Denmark (49) 50 Botswana (52) +2 51 Tunisia (50) -1 52 Senegal (51) -1 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 (67) 68 Bosnia (68) 69 Montenegro (69) 70 Slovakia (70) 71 Estonia (71) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 854 (gross) 209.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 697 [81.6%] (gross) 182.6 [87.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2020-02-02      France   24       England   17 2020-02-08      Ireland   24       Wales   14 2020-02-08      England   13       Scotland   6 2020-02-08      Belgium   38       Russia   12 2020-02-08      Portugal   22       Romania   11 2020-02-09      France   35       Italy   22 2020-02-09      Georgia   23       Spain   10 2020-02-22      France   27       Wales   23 2020-02-22      Scotland   17       Italy   0 2020-02-22      Russia   19       Portugal   18 2020-02-22      Romania   24       Spain   7 2020-02-22      Georgia   78       Belgium   6 2020-02-23      England   24       Ireland   12 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/) ©1996-2020 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2020 Paul Waite)