World Rugby Rankings^TM, June 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 Scotland (6) +1 6 Fiji (9) +3 7 Australia (10) +3 8 England (5) -3 9 Argentina (7) -2 10 Italy (8) -2 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Spain (16) 17 Portugal (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Zimbabwe (19) 20 Romania (20) 21 Tonga (21) 22 Russia (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Canada (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Brazil (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Kenya (30) 31 Switzerland (31) 32 Germany (32) 33 Poland (33) 34 Sweden (34) 35 Czech Republic (35) 36 Paraguay (36) 37 Denmark (42) +5 38 Croatia (37) -1 39 Lithuania (38) -1 40 Luxembourg (39) -1 41 Colombia (40) -1 42 Ukraine (41) -1 43 Finland (43) 44 Latvia (44) 45 Moldova (51) +6 46 Austria (45) -1 47 Andorra (46) -1 48 Israel (47) -1 49 Malta (48) -1 50 Cyprus (49) -1 51 Norway (52) +1 52 Turkey (57) +5 53 Serbia (58) +5 54 Bulgaria (50) -4 55 Slovenia (53) -2 56 Hungary (54) -2 57 Bosnia (55) -2 58 Montenegro (56) -2 59 Estonia (n/a) 60 Kosovo (n/a) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 668 (gross) 177.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 549.5 [82.3%] (gross) 157.6 [88.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-04-01      Austria   51       Kosovo   7 2023-04-22      Austria   95       Kosovo   3 2023-12-04      Kosovo   27       Montenegro   0 2024-04-14      Montenegro   35       Kosovo   12 2024-05-25      Finland   62       Estonia   17 2024-09-29      Montenegro   55       Kosovo   10 2024-10-12      Denmark   105       Estonia   0 2024-10-12      Slovenia   74       Kosovo   10 2024-11-02      Latvia   62       Estonia   0 2025-04-05      Bosnia   77       Kosovo   10 2025-05-03      Norway   58       Estonia   10 2025-05-10      Finland   120       Estonia   5 2025-05-10      Serbia   44       Bulgaria   28 2025-05-10      Denmark   32       Norway   6 2025-05-24      Denmark   41       Moldova   6 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)