World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2021

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 England (3) 4 France (4) 5 Japan (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Wales (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Australia (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Samoa (16) 17 Russia (18) +1 18 Romania (21) +3 19 Spain (17) -2 20 Namibia (19) -1 21 Portugal (20) -1 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 Cote d'Ivoire (32) 33 Kenya (33) 34 Zimbabwe (34) 35 Uganda (35) 36 Ukraine (36) 37 Lithuania (37) 38 Algeria (38) 39 Zambia (39) 40 Czech Republic (40) 41 Paraguay (41) 42 Luxembourg (42) 43 Senegal (43) 44 Latvia (44) 45 Sweden (45) 46 Hungary (55) +9 47 Denmark (46) -1 48 Finland (47) -1 49 Moldova (56) +7 50 Tunisia (48) -2 51 Morocco (49) -2 52 Bulgaria (51) -1 53 Austria (57) +4 54 Malta (50) -4 55 Croatia (52) -3 56 Israel (53) -3 57 Gibraltar (54) -3 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: 662 (gross) 121.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 534 [80.7%] (gross) 101.0 [83.2%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-03-06      Russia   18       Romania   13 2021-03-06      Georgia   29       Portugal   16 2021-03-13      Romania   28       Portugal   27 2021-03-13      Wales   48       Italy   7 2021-03-13      England   23       France   20 2021-03-14      Georgia   25       Spain   19 2021-03-14      Ireland   27       Scotland   24 2021-03-20      Georgia   23       Russia   6 2021-03-20      Romania   22       Spain   16 2021-03-20      Scotland   52       Italy   10 2021-03-20      Ireland   32       England   18 2021-03-20      France   32       Wales   30 2021-03-26      Scotland   27       France   23 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)