World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 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 (15) 16 Samoa (17) +1 17 Spain (18) +1 18 Uruguay (19) +1 19 Russia (20) +1 20 Namibia (21) +1 21 Brazil (22) +1 22 Portugal (24) +2 23 Romania (16) -7 24 Canada (23) -1 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Belgium (28) +1 28 Chile (27) -1 29 Switzerland (35) +6 30 Germany (29) -1 31 South Korea (30) -1 32 Kenya (31) -1 33 Zimbabwe (32) -1 34 Poland (34) 35 Uganda (33) -2 36 Ukraine (36) 37 Lithuania (37) 38 Morocco (38) 39 Algeria (39) 40 Cote d'Ivoire (40) 41 Malaysia (41) 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 (50) 51 Tunisia (51) 52 Senegal (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 (67) 68 Bosnia (68) 69 Montenegro (69) 70 Slovakia (70) 71 Estonia (71) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 845 (gross) 203.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 682.5 [80.8%] (gross) 176.8 [87.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2020-02-29      Switzerland   33       Germany   20 2020-02-29      Netherlands   7       Poland   6 2020-03-07      England   33       Wales   30 2020-03-07      Georgia   39       Portugal   24 2020-03-07      Netherlands   36       Lithuania   17 2020-03-07      Spain   30       Belgium   23 2020-03-07      Russia   32       Romania   25 2020-03-08      Scotland   28       France   17 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)