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		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	*

* 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.
** Countries that have not played a qualifying full field match for 4 years are considered dormant and after 8 years fall off our list altogether. Samoa has not played a qualifying full field match for over 4 years and so are regarded as dormant, they must play by 05/09/2016 to stay on the list. Iceland has not played a qualifying full field match for over 4 years and so are regarded as dormant, they must play by 07/08/2018 to stay on the list. Spain fell off the list based on this criteria in 2013.