World Rugby Rankings^TM, January 2021

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 England (4) +1 4 France (3) -1 5 Japan (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Wales (8) 9 Australia (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Fiji (12) +1 12 Italy (11) -1 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 (31) 32 Kenya (32) 33 Zimbabwe (33) 34 Uganda (34) 35 Ukraine (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Algeria (37) 38 Cote d'Ivoire (38) 39 Czech Republic (40) +1 40 Zambia (39) -1 41 Luxembourg (42) +1 42 Paraguay (41) -1 43 Senegal (43) 44 Latvia (44) 45 Sweden (45) 46 Denmark (46) 47 Tunisia (47) 48 Morocco (48) 49 Malta (49) 50 Bulgaria (50) 51 Croatia (51) 52 Israel (52) 53 Gibraltar (53) 54 Hungary (54) 55 Finland (55) 56 Moldova (56) 57 Austria (57) 58 Cyprus (58) 59 Serbia (59) 60 Norway (60) 61 Slovenia (61) 62 Turkey (62) 63 Andorra (63) 64 Bosnia (64) 65 Slovakia (65) 66 Estonia (66) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 686 (gross) 126.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 557 [81.2%] (gross) 107.4 [85.2%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2020-11-21      Portugal   30       Brazil   10 2020-11-28      Portugal   33       Brazil   13 2020-12-05      Australia   16       Argentina   16 2020-12-05      Fiji   38       Georgia   24 2020-12-05      Ireland   31       Scotland   16 2020-12-05      Wales   38       Italy   18 2020-12-05      England   22       France   19 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)