World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2020

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 France (3) 4 England (4) 5 Japan (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Wales (8) 9 Australia (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Italy (11) 12 Fiji (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Samoa (16) 17 Spain (17) 18 Russia (18) 19 Namibia (19) 20 Portugal (20) 21 Romania (21) 22 Netherlands (22) 23 Chile (23) 24 Uruguay (24) 25 Brazil (25) 26 Canada (26) 27 Hong Kong (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Switzerland (29) 30 Germany (30) 31 Poland (32) +1 32 Kenya (33) +1 33 Zimbabwe (34) +1 34 Uganda (35) +1 35 Ukraine (36) +1 36 Lithuania (37) +1 37 Algeria (39) +2 38 Cote d'Ivoire (40) +2 39 Zambia (41) +2 40 Czech Republic (42) +2 41 Paraguay (43) +2 42 Luxembourg (44) +2 43 Senegal (45) +2 44 Latvia (46) +2 45 Sweden (47) +2 46 Denmark (48) +2 47 Tunisia (49) +2 48 Morocco (38) -10 49 Malta (50) +1 50 Bulgaria (51) +1 51 Croatia (52) +1 52 Israel (53) +1 53 Gibraltar (54) +1 54 Hungary (55) +1 55 Finland (56) +1 56 Moldova (57) +1 57 Austria (58) +1 58 Cyprus (59) +1 59 Serbia (60) +1 60 Norway (61) +1 61 Slovenia (62) +1 62 Turkey (63) +1 63 Andorra (64) +1 64 Bosnia (65) +1 65 Slovakia (66) +1 66 Estonia (67) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 683 (gross) 129.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 551.5 [80.7%] (gross) 110.0 [85.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2020-11-06      Uruguay   19       Spain   10 2020-11-07      Australia   24       New Zealand   22 2020-11-13      Ireland   32       Wales   9 2020-11-14      Argentina   25       New Zealand   15 2020-11-14      England   40       Georgia   0 2020-11-14      Scotland   28       Italy   17 2020-11-21      Australia   15       Argentina   15 2020-11-21      England   18       Ireland   7 2020-11-21      Wales   18       Georgia   0 2020-11-22      France   22       Scotland   15 2020-11-28      New Zealand   38       Argentina   0 2020-11-28      England   24       Wales   13 2020-11-28      France   36       Italy   5 2020-11-29      Ireland   23       Georgia   10 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)