World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2021

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 England (1) 2 France (5) +3 3 Ireland (6) +3 4 New Zealand (2) -2 5 South Africa (4) -1 6 Wales (8) +2 7 Scotland (10) +3 8 Australia (3) -5 9 Argentina (7) -2 10 Japan (9) -1 11 Fiji (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Romania (14) 15 Spain (15) 16 Uruguay (16) 17 Portugal (19) +2 18 United States (17) -1 19 Samoa (18) -1 20 Tonga (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Russia (27) +4 24 Namibia (28) +4 25 Hong Kong (24) -1 26 Netherlands (25) -1 27 Belgium (26) -1 28 Kenya (32) +4 29 Zimbabwe (33) +4 30 Brazil (23) -7 31 Poland (31) 32 Germany (30) -2 33 Uganda (35) +2 34 Morocco (40) +6 35 Ukraine (37) +2 36 Lithuania (38) +2 37 Switzerland (29) -8 38 Zambia (42) +4 39 Czech Republic (36) -3 40 Hungary (43) +3 41 Latvia (44) +3 42 Sweden (39) -3 43 Luxembourg (41) -2 44 Denmark (45) +1 45 Finland (46) +1 46 Moldova (47) +1 47 Tunisia (50) +3 48 Croatia (52) +4 49 Austria (48) -1 50 Norway (49) -1 51 Malta (51) 52 Israel (54) +2 53 Bulgaria (55) +2 54 Serbia (56) +2 55 Cyprus (53) -2 56 Slovenia (57) +1 57 Bosnia (58) +1 58 Andorra (60) +2 59 Turkey (61) +2 60 Slovakia (59) -1 61 Estonia (62) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 585 (gross) 150.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 475 [81.2%] (gross) 130.3 [86.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-11-06      England   69       Tonga   3 2021-11-06      South Africa   23       Wales   18 2021-11-06      France   29       Argentina   20 2021-11-06      Ireland   60       Japan   5 2021-11-06      New Zealand   47       Italy   9 2021-11-06      Fiji   43       Spain   13 2021-11-06      Portugal   20       Canada   17 2021-11-06      Russia   35       Netherlands   8 2021-11-06      Czech Republic   31       Hungary   13 2021-11-06      Croatia   48       Slovenia   3 2021-11-07      Scotland   15       Australia   13 2021-11-07      Romania   29       Uruguay   14 2021-11-12      Lithuania   28       Switzerland   20 2021-11-13      Argentina   37       Italy   16 2021-11-13      South Africa   30       Scotland   15 2021-11-13      Canada   24       Belgium   0 2021-11-13      Ireland   29       New Zealand   20 2021-11-13      Japan   38       Portugal   25 2021-11-13      England   32       Australia   15 2021-11-13      Romania   56       Netherlands   15 2021-11-13      Poland   21       Germany   16 2021-11-13      Croatia   29       Cyprus   8 2021-11-13      Malta   15       Israel   13 2021-11-14      Zimbabwe   24       Brazil   22 2021-11-14      France   41       Georgia   15 2021-11-14      Namibia   60       Kenya   24 2021-11-14      Wales   38       Fiji   23 2021-11-14      Spain   49       Russia   12 2021-11-20      Kenya   36       Brazil   30 2021-11-20      Chile   30       Russia   29 2021-11-20      Scotland   29       Japan   20 2021-11-20      Italy   17       Uruguay   10 2021-11-20      Namibia   41       Zimbabwe   10 2021-11-20      Fiji   15       Georgia   15 2021-11-20      England   27       South Africa   26 2021-11-20      Romania   32       Tonga   20 2021-11-20      Wales   29       Australia   28 2021-11-20      France   40       New Zealand   25 2021-11-20      Poland   37       Switzerland   25 2021-11-21      Ireland   53       Argentina   7 2021-11-26      Chile   42       Russia   27 2021-11-27      Czech Republic   39       Luxembourg   12 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)