Rankings update - Tonga enters provisional list
Contributed by: Brett Northey Saturday, November 27 2010 @ 06:58 pm ACDT
Since we released our statistically based World Rankings, applying from 8th August 2010, scheduled internationals due to be added were the senior Oceania Cup series, which unfortunately fell through. It was replaced with the Pacific Cup, a set of 3 matches between New Zealand and Tonga. Those games were 18-a-side, with 6 interchange, 20 minute quarters.
We've updated our rankings. However, since NZ is highly ranked and Tonga is new with a low starting rank, their points separation means NZ had nothing to gain and Tonga lost nothing by going down in the matches. So the only change to our rankings is that Tonga now have 3 eligible matches on the board, with 8 required to be fully ranked.
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, since 2006 worldfootynews.com has been providing rankings.
World Footy News / Cam Homes Australian Football World Rankings
(as at 18th November 2010)| Rank | Team | Points | Games | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Australia | - | - | |
| 2 |  | Papua New Guinea | 53.89 | 23 | |
| 3 |  | New Zealand | 53.84 | 27 | |
| 4 |  | Ireland | 47.37 | 30 | |
| 5 |  | Nauru | 47.06 | 13 | |
| 6 |  | United States | 46.53 | 29 | |
| 7 |  | South Africa | 43.92 | 16 | |
| 8 |  | Denmark | 43.46 | 34 | |
| 9 |  | Samoa | 41.85 | 18 | |
| 10 |  | Great Britain | 41.10 | 35 | |
| 11 |  | Sweden | 39.81 | 18 | |
| 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.
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