World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 2022

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 France (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 England (4) +1 4 New Zealand (5) +1 5 Australia (6) +1 6 South Africa (7) +1 7 Argentina (8) +1 8 Wales (11) +3 9 Scotland (3) -6 10 Japan (9) -1 11 Samoa (19) +8 12 Fiji (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Italy (10) -4 15 Spain (14) -1 16 Romania (15) -1 17 Portugal (16) -1 18 Uruguay (17) -1 19 United States (18) -1 20 Namibia (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Russia (23) 24 Tonga (24) 25 Zimbabwe (26) +1 26 Hong Kong (25) -1 27 Kenya (27) 28 Brazil (28) 29 Netherlands (30) +1 30 Belgium (31) +1 31 Poland (32) +1 32 Germany (33) +1 33 Uganda (29) -4 34 Zambia (34) 35 Ukraine (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Switzerland (37) 38 Sweden (38) 39 Czech Republic (39) 40 Latvia (40) 41 Moldova (41) 42 Luxembourg (42) 43 Hungary (43) 44 Denmark (44) 45 Croatia (45) 46 Finland (46) 47 Malta (47) 48 Austria (48) 49 Israel (49) 50 Bulgaria (50) 51 Cyprus (51) 52 Serbia (52) 53 Norway (53) 54 Slovenia (54) 55 Bosnia (55) 56 Andorra (56) 57 Turkey (57) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 546 (gross) 145.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 438.5 [80.3%] (gross) 125.7 [86.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-07-02      Fiji   36       Tonga   0 2022-07-02      France   42       Japan   23 2022-07-02      New Zealand   42       Ireland   19 2022-07-02      Australia   30       England   28 2022-07-02      South Africa   32       Wales   29 2022-07-02      Kenya   42       Uganda   7 2022-07-02      Canada   45       Belgium   0 2022-07-02      Argentina   26       Scotland   18 2022-07-06      Namibia   34       Zimbabwe   19 2022-07-09      Samoa   34       Tonga   18 2022-07-09      Ireland   23       New Zealand   12 2022-07-09      France   20       Japan   15 2022-07-09      Wales   13       South Africa   12 2022-07-09      England   25       Australia   17 2022-07-09      Scotland   29       Argentina   6 2022-07-09      United States   22       Chile   21 2022-07-10      Namibia   36       Kenya   0 2022-07-10      Georgia   28       Italy   19 2022-07-10      Romania   30       Uruguay   22 2022-07-10      Spain   54       Canada   37 2022-07-16      Samoa   23       Fiji   20 2022-07-16      Ireland   32       New Zealand   22 2022-07-16      England   21       Australia   17 2022-07-16      South Africa   30       Wales   14 2022-07-16      Georgia   23       Portugal   14 2022-07-16      Chile   31       United States   29 2022-07-16      Argentina   34       Scotland   31 2022-07-17      Uruguay   26       Romania   20 2022-07-23      Tonga   44       Hong Kong   22 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)