World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 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 Australia (9) +5 5 France (4) -1 6 Ireland (6) 7 Argentina (10) +3 8 Wales (7) -1 9 Japan (5) -4 10 Scotland (8) -2 11 Fiji (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Romania (18) +4 15 Spain (19) +4 16 Uruguay (24) +8 17 United States (15) -2 18 Samoa (16) -2 19 Tonga (14) -5 20 Portugal (20) 21 Canada (26) +5 22 Hong Kong (22) 23 Chile (23) 24 Brazil (25) +1 25 Netherlands (27) +2 26 Belgium (28) +2 27 Russia (17) -10 28 Switzerland (29) +1 29 Cote d'Ivoire (32) +3 30 Namibia (21) -9 31 Germany (30) -1 32 Poland (31) -1 33 Algeria (36) +3 34 Senegal (40) +6 35 Kenya (33) -2 36 Zimbabwe (34) -2 37 Uganda (35) -2 38 Czech Republic (37) -1 39 Luxembourg (39) 40 Zambia (38) -2 41 Latvia (41) 42 Denmark (42) 43 Gibraltar (43) 44 Finland (44) 45 Moldova (45) 46 Ukraine (46) 47 Lithuania (47) 48 Sweden (48) 49 Hungary (49) 50 Austria (50) 51 Bulgaria (51) 52 Norway (52) 53 Tunisia (53) 54 Morocco (54) 55 Malta (55) 56 Croatia (56) 57 Israel (57) 58 Cyprus (58) 59 Serbia (59) 60 Slovenia (60) 61 Turkey (61) 62 Andorra (62) 63 Bosnia (63) 64 Slovakia (64) 65 Estonia (65) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 606 (gross) 114.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 482 [79.5%] (gross) 96.3 [84.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-07-02      South Africa   40       Georgia   9 2021-07-03      New Zealand   102       Tonga   0 2021-07-03      Senegal   20       Kenya   19 2021-07-03      Wales   68       Canada   12 2021-07-03      Cote d'Ivoire   24       Namibia   13 2021-07-03      Argentina   24       Romania   17 2021-07-03      Ireland   39       Japan   31 2021-07-04      England   43       United States   29 2021-07-07      Australia   23       France   21 2021-07-07      Senegal   20       Zambia   5 2021-07-10      Samoa   42       Tonga   13 2021-07-10      New Zealand   57       Fiji   23 2021-07-10      Wales   20       Argentina   20 2021-07-10      Portugal   61       Netherlands   28 2021-07-10      England   70       Canada   14 2021-07-10      Ireland   71       United States   10 2021-07-11      Chile   23       Brazil   13 2021-07-11      Kenya   45       Zambia   8 2021-07-13      France   28       Australia   26 2021-07-17      Samoa   37       Tonga   15 2021-07-17      New Zealand   60       Fiji   13 2021-07-17      Australia   33       France   30 2021-07-17      Argentina   33       Wales   11 2021-07-17      Portugal   49       Russia   26 2021-07-18      Algeria   22       Uganda   16 2021-07-18      Uruguay   15       Chile   10 2021-07-25      Uruguay   36       Brazil   13 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)