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World Rankings as at end 20th August 2016

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, worldfootynews.com has been providing rankings since 2006.

This is our first formal World Rankings since 1st August 2015, and follows the completion of the 2016 European Championships.

There was a disappointingly small turnout for the full field tournament but it still created some movement in the rankings. Without their host of stars that are playing Down Under (both in the AFL and lower levels) the Irish went down to Great Britain in the final despite a narrow win a few days earlier. As a result Ireland dropped one spot in our rankings and Great Britain up two spots. The big winners were Germany, knocking off Sweden twice to rise 3 places on the ladder, with Sweden falling by the same amount. New Zealand now sit 3rd behind Australia and PNG courtesy of Ireland's slip.

World Footy News Australian Football World Rankings

(as at end of 20th August 2016, completion of EC2016)

Rank	Team		Points	Games	Rank Change
1		Australia	-		steady
2		Papua New Guinea	57.66	34	steady
3		New Zealand	55.09	38	+1
4		Ireland	53.68	53	-1
5		Nauru	53.30	27	steady
6		South Africa	49.63	27	steady
7		Great Britain	48.68	58	+2
8		United States	47.61	43	-1
9		Canada	46.69	43	-1
10		Denmark	43.67	47	steady
11		Tonga	41.93	14	steady
12		Croatia	40.35	8	steady
13		Fiji	40.18	14	steady
14		France	39.09	13	steady
15		Germany	37.44	20	+3
16		Japan	37.17	29	steady
17		Peace Team	36.46	11	steady
18		Sweden	34.18	39	-3
19		China	28.84	16	steady
20		Finland	27.45	18	steady
21		India	23.01	16	steady
Dorm.		Samoa	41.85	18	**
Dorm.		Iceland	35.64	4	**
Prov.		Indonesia	32.66	5	*
Prov.		Pakistan	32.35	5	*
Prov.		Timor-Leste	27.40	6	*