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Men's World Rankings as at end 20th August 2017 (IC17)

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 22nd October 2016, and follows the completion of the 2017 Australian Football International Cup.

Australia retains its notional #1 ranking as unarguably the leading nation, and PNG's victory at IC17 kept their #1 contender position intact. In fact the top 5 positions were unchanged. The big changes were Croatia rising 5 places to 7th and China up 6 to 13. Perhaps unfairly France fell 3 spots to 17th courtesy of playing in the tough Division 1 (compare with Croatia's rise from dominating Division 2). We'd love to see more cross-over matches with sides touring outside of IC years which would help address that; a modified rankings system is not imminent. South Africa's slow decline continues. We welcome Indonesia and Pakistan as fully ranked for the first time (playing the necessary 8 games) and Sri Lanka's debut sees them onto the provisional list.

World Footy News Australian Football Men's World Rankings

(as at end of 20th August 2017, end IC17)

Rank	Team		Points	Games	Rank Change
1		Australia	-	0	steady
2		Papua New Guinea	61.99	39	steady
3		New Zealand	57.88	43	steady
4		Ireland	56.64	59	steady
5		Nauru	52.97	32	steady
6		United States	49.34	48	+2
7		Croatia	47.09	13	+5
8		South Africa	46.61	32	-2
9		Great Britain	46.23	64	-2
10		Canada	45.84	48	-1
11		Denmark	43.67	47	-1
12		Tonga	41.93	14	-1
13		China	39.91	25	+6
14		Fiji	38.01	19	-1
15		Germany	37.55	25	steady
16		Peace Team	36.46	11	+1
17		France	36.09	18	-3
18		Japan	35.06	34	-2
19		Sweden	34.18	39	-1
20		Indonesia	30.94	12	new
21		Pakistan	29.14	10	new
22		Finland	27.45	18	-2
23		India	20.71	21	-2
Prov.		Sri Lanka	37.41	5	*
Dorm.		Iceland	35.64	4	**
Prov.		Indochina	34.00	2	*
Prov.		Timor-Leste	27.40	6	*

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