World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2020

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 France (10) +7 4 England (3) -1 5 Japan (4) -1 6 Ireland (5) -1 7 Scotland (7) 8 Wales (6) -2 9 Australia (8) -1 10 Argentina (11) +1 11 Italy (12) +1 12 Fiji (9) -3 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Samoa (16) 17 Spain (17) 18 Russia (19) +1 19 Namibia (20) +1 20 Portugal (23) +3 21 Romania (24) +3 22 Netherlands (26) +4 23 Chile (28) +5 24 Uruguay (18) -6 25 Brazil (21) -4 26 Canada (22) -4 27 Hong Kong (25) -2 28 Belgium (27) -1 29 Switzerland (29) 30 Germany (30) 31 South Korea (31) 32 Poland (32) 33 Kenya (33) 34 Zimbabwe (34) 35 Uganda (35) 36 Ukraine (36) 37 Lithuania (37) 38 Morocco (38) 39 Algeria (39) 40 Cote d'Ivoire (40) 41 Zambia (41) 42 Czech Republic (42) 43 Paraguay (43) 44 Luxembourg (44) 45 Senegal (45) 46 Latvia (46) 47 Sweden (47) 48 Denmark (48) 49 Tunisia (49) 50 Malta (50) 51 Bulgaria (51) 52 Croatia (52) 53 Israel (53) 54 Gibraltar (54) 55 Hungary (55) 56 Finland (56) 57 Moldova (57) 58 Austria (58) 59 Cyprus (60) +1 60 Serbia (59) -1 61 Norway (61) 62 Slovenia (62) 63 Turkey (63) 64 Andorra (64) 65 Bosnia (65) 66 Slovakia (66) 67 Estonia (67) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 728 (gross) 126.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 584 [80.2%] (gross) 108.5 [85.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2020-10-11      New Zealand   16       Australia   16 2020-10-17      Uruguay   25       Brazil   17 2020-10-18      New Zealand   27       Australia   7 2020-10-21      Chile   22       Uruguay   21 2020-10-23      Scotland   48       Georgia   7 2020-10-24      Ireland   50       Italy   17 2020-10-24      France   38       Wales   21 2020-10-25      Chile   26       Brazil   13 2020-10-31      New Zealand   43       Australia   5 2020-10-31      Scotland   14       Wales   10 2020-10-31      England   34       Italy   5 2020-10-31      France   35       Ireland   27 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)