World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2025

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 South Africa (1) 2 France (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 Ireland (4) 5 England (5) 6 Scotland (6) 7 Argentina (7) 8 Italy (8) 9 Fiji (9) 10 Australia (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Spain (17) +1 17 Portugal (16) -1 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Zimbabwe (19) 20 Romania (20) 21 Tonga (21) 22 Russia (23) +1 23 Namibia (24) +1 24 Chile (25) +1 25 Canada (26) +1 26 Hong Kong (27) +1 27 Brazil (28) +1 28 Belgium (29) +1 29 Netherlands (22) -7 30 Kenya (32) +2 31 Switzerland (33) +2 32 Germany (30) -2 33 Poland (31) -2 34 Paraguay (34) 35 Sweden (35) 36 Czech Republic (36) 37 Croatia (37) 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Colombia (39) 40 Luxembourg (40) 41 Latvia (42) +1 42 Denmark (43) +1 43 Finland (44) +1 44 Ukraine (45) +1 45 Moldova (41) -4 46 Austria (46) 47 Turkey (47) 48 Bulgaria (48) 49 Malta (49) 50 Andorra (50) 51 Israel (51) 52 Cyprus (52) 53 Serbia (53) 54 Norway (54) 55 Slovenia (55) 56 Hungary (56) 57 Bosnia (57) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 639 (gross) 182.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 527.5 [82.6%] (gross) 162.2 [88.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2025-03-08      France   42       Ireland   27 2025-03-08      Scotland   35       Wales   29 2025-03-08      Czech Republic   40       Luxembourg   16 2025-03-09      England   47       Italy   24 2025-03-15      Ireland   22       Italy   17 2025-03-15      England   68       Wales   14 2025-03-15      France   35       Scotland   16 2025-03-15      Belgium   31       Netherlands   10 2025-03-15      Switzerland   20       Germany   17 2025-03-16      Georgia   46       Spain   28 2025-03-16      Romania   21       Portugal   7 2025-03-29      Czech Republic   44       Lithuania   3 2025-03-29      Sweden   57       Luxembourg   18 2025-03-29      Spain   19       Portugal   7 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)