World Ranking : 2011 / 2013 / 2014

Here are three years of international ranking with 2012 missing. They are colour coded for the Pacific, Europe, Americas and Africa/Middle East. No points system is perfect but if viewed as as a guide, then it has some merit. The system is run by the RLIF.

For 2014, I have included an up change of rank column compared to 2013. The number of recognised playing nations went from 27 to 34.

	Rankings 2011				Rankings 2013				Rankings 2014
	1	Australia	1215		1	Australia	1109		1	Australia	984	-
	2	New Zealand	1062		2	New Zealand	742		2	New Zealand	884	-
	3	England	682		3	England	571		3	England	485	-
	4	PNG	341		4	France	268		4	Samoa	316	+4
	5	France	250		5	Fiji	201		5	France	215	-1
	6	Samoa	160		6	Wales	173		6	Fiji	184	-1
	7	Wales	149		7	PNG	146		7	Ireland	154	+2
	8	Fiji	146		8	Samoa	146		8	Scotland	123	+3
	9	Tonga	129		9	Ireland	128		9	Wales	122	-3
	10	Scotland	91		10	USA	127		10	USA	119	-
	11	Ireland	73		11	Scotland	102		11	PNG	104	-4
	12	Cook Is	62		12	Italy	84		12	Italy	79	-
	13	USA	57		13	Tonga	55		13	Serbia	49	+4
	14	Italy	45		14	Cook Is	48		14	Canada	49	+2
	15	Lebanon	44		15	Russia	43		15	Russia	45	-
	16	Serbia	39		16	Canada	42		16	Tonga	32	-3
	17	Germany	38		17	Serbia	39		17	Cook Is	31	-3
	18	Russia	31		18	Germany	31		18	Germany	27	-
	19	Norway	30		19	Norway	28		19	Norway	22	-
	20	Latvia	24		20	Lebanon	24		20	Ukraine	21	+1
	21	Malta	20		21	Ukraine	20		21	Belgium	20	+8
	22	Czech Rep	16		22	Malta	19		22	Greece	19	+6
	23	Ukraine	16		23	Jamaica	15		23	Lebanon	19	-3
	24	Canada	14		24	Netherlands	10		24	Malta	18	-2
	25	South Africa	14		25	South Africa	8		25	Netherlands	14	-1
	26	Jamaica	14		26	Czech Rep	7		26	Denmark	13	+1
	27	Sweden	4		27	Denmark	6		27	Jamaica	11	-4
					28	Greece	5		28	Spain	9	New
					29	Belgium	5		29	Czech Rep	7	-3
					30	Latvia	4		30	Sweden	7	+1
					31	Sweden	2		31	South Africa	4	-6
					32	Hungary	1		32	Hungary	2	-
					33	Morocco	0		33	Latvia	0	-3
									34	Morocco	0	-1