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World Rankings as at 4th April 2011


There is currently no official system of World Rankings for Australian Football, as the international game is still mostly amateur, still maturing and there are often difficulties in nations having all their best players available. However, due to popular demand, since 2006 worldfootynews.com has been providing rankings. Here are the rankings as at 4th April 2011.

This is the first update since 18th November 2010, to include matches between Ireland and Great Britain, and Denmark and Sweden. The only movement in positions was Denmark slipping ahead of South Africa, the Danes moving into 7th place.

World Footy News / Homes Australian Football World Rankings

(as at 4th April 2011)

Rank        Team Points Games
1 Australia - -
2 Papua New Guinea 53.89 23
3 New Zealand 53.84 27
4 Ireland 47.48 31
5 Nauru 47.06 13
6 United States 46.53 29
7 Denmark 44.22 35
8 South Africa 43.92 16
9 Samoa 41.85 18
10 Great Britain 40.99 36
11 Sweden 39.06 19
12 Canada 38.01 29
13 Germany 34.37 9
14 Japan 33.33 18
15 Finland 29.02 13
Prov. Croatia 40.60 4 *
Prov. Tonga 40.00 3 *
Prov. Peace Team 39.88 5 *
Prov. Iceland 35.64 4 *
Prov. China 34.00 5 *
Prov. India 28.33 5 *
Prov. Spain 28.00 6 *


* Nations marked in grey with an asterisk have played less than eight (8) matches under our criteria, and currently hold provisional ranking points, but are not yet officially ranked. Spain has not played for more than 4 years and so would be provisionally ranked either way. They must play an eligible match by 13/08/2013 to remain on the list.



   For a full discussion of the eligibility criteria of games see World Rankings - Criteria

   For a full list of the included matches, see World Rankings - Matches

   For a full discussion of how the rankings are produced, see World Rankings - Method

   For previous rankings see World Rankings - Historical



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