Monday 18 December 2017

WC Points (Nations) 1954-2017


In the final about the WC (I promise), this stats nerd will give his final assessment of RL history. The columns below show the games played (three forfeited matches are excluded), wins (3 points), draws (2) and losses (1). The final points are at the extreme right.

Teams that have arrived recently often have a better win ratio because more teams means some easier games. Early WCs when just the four best were there made winning that much harder. Great Britain is counted as England because most of the players came for that nation.


Team G W D L Pt

1 Australia 78 65 2 11 210

2 GB / England 75 45 6 24 171

3 New Zealand 69 33 3 33 138

4 France 60 15 3 42 93

5 PNG 31 7 1 23 46

6 Fiji 20 10 0 10 40

7 Wales 22 8 0 14 38

8 Tonga 16 9 1 6 35

9 Samoa 17 7 1 9 32

10 Ireland 13 6 0 7 25

11 Scotland 13 3 2 8 21

12 USA 7 2 0 5 11

12 Italy 6 2 1 3 11

14 Lebanon 7 1 1 5 10

15 Cook Islands 6 1 1 4 9

16 RSA 6 0 0 6 6

17 NZ Maori 3 1 0 2 5

18 Russia 3 0 0 3 3

A  breakdown by WC year can be found by clicking here.

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