World Rugby Rankings^TM, January 2022

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 England (1) 2 France (2) 3 Ireland (3) 4 New Zealand (4) 5 Australia (8) +3 6 South Africa (5) -1 7 Argentina (9) +2 8 Wales (6) -2 9 Scotland (7) -2 10 Japan (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Romania (14) 15 Spain (15) 16 Uruguay (16) 17 Portugal (17) 18 United States (18) 19 Samoa (19) 20 Tonga (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Russia (23) 24 Namibia (24) 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Kenya (28) 29 Zimbabwe (29) 30 Brazil (30) 31 Poland (31) 32 Germany (32) 33 Uganda (33) 34 Morocco (34) 35 Zambia (38) +3 36 Ukraine (35) -1 37 Lithuania (36) -1 38 Switzerland (37) -1 39 Czech Republic (39) 40 Hungary (40) 41 Latvia (41) 42 Sweden (42) 43 Luxembourg (43) 44 Denmark (44) 45 Finland (45) 46 Moldova (46) 47 Tunisia (47) 48 Croatia (48) 49 Austria (49) 50 Norway (50) 51 Malta (51) 52 Israel (52) 53 Bulgaria (53) 54 Serbia (54) 55 Cyprus (55) 56 Slovenia (56) 57 Bosnia (57) 58 Andorra (58) 59 Turkey (59) 60 Slovakia (60) 61 Estonia (61) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 585 (gross) 140.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 469 [80.2%] (gross) 121.4 [86.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-12-18      Spain   52       Netherlands   7 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)