World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 2025

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 South Africa (1) 2 New Zealand (2) 3 France (3) 4 Ireland (4) 5 Australia (5) 6 England (6) 7 Fiji (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 Spain (15) 16 Uruguay (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Portugal (18) 19 Russia (20) +1 20 Zimbabwe (19) -1 21 Namibia (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Romania (23) 24 Tonga (24) 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Brazil (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Canada (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Algeria (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Paraguay (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Germany (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 United Arab Emirates (36) 37 South Korea (n/a) 38 Sweden (37) -1 39 Czech Republic (38) -1 40 Denmark (39) -1 41 Croatia (40) -1 42 Lithuania (41) -1 43 Luxembourg (42) -1 44 Ukraine (44) 45 Finland (45) 46 Latvia (46) 47 Moldova (47) 48 Austria (48) 49 Andorra (49) 50 Israel (50) 51 Malta (51) 52 Cyprus (52) 53 Norway (53) 54 Turkey (54) 55 Serbia (55) 56 Bulgaria (56) 57 Slovenia (57) 58 Hungary (58) 59 Bosnia (59) 60 Montenegro (60) 61 Estonia (61) 62 Kosovo (62) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 690 (gross) 181.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 552 [80.0%] (gross) 158.5 [87.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-07-09      Hong Kong   23       South Korea   21 2023-06-17      Hong Kong   30       South Korea   10 2024-06-09      United Arab Emirates   36       South Korea   32 2024-06-22      Hong Kong   67       South Korea   7 2024-11-16      Zimbabwe   27       South Korea   22 2025-06-21      United Arab Emirates   38       South Korea   36 2025-07-04      Hong Kong   70       South Korea   22 2025-08-16      Australia   38       South Africa   22 2025-08-16      New Zealand   41       Argentina   24 2025-08-22      Canada   34       United States   20 2025-08-22      Tonga   30       Samoa   16 2025-08-23      South Africa   30       Australia   22 2025-08-23      Argentina   29       New Zealand   23 2025-08-23      Uruguay   78       Paraguay   10 2025-08-29      Fiji   32       Tonga   10 2025-08-30      Uruguay   28       Chile   16 2025-08-30      Japan   57       Canada   15 For more information About the World Rugby Rankings Subjective comments about this month's rankings The complete set of match results from which the rankings were generated See also "World Rugby" (formerly the "International Rugby Board (IRB)") - which now has their own, unrelated 'world rankings' The World Rugby Rankings are updated monthly, shortly after the start of the month. (The most recently computed rankings can be found at https://wrr.live555.com/) ©1996-2024 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2024 Paul Waite)