World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 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 England (6) +1 6 Scotland (8) +2 7 Argentina (9) +2 8 Australia (5) -3 9 Italy (10) +1 10 Fiji (7) -3 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Spain (14) 15 Uruguay (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Portugal (17) 18 Russia (18) 19 Zimbabwe (19) 20 Namibia (20) 21 Chile (21) 22 Romania (22) 23 Tonga (23) 24 Samoa (24) 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Belgium (27) +1 27 Canada (28) +1 28 Netherlands (29) +1 29 Algeria (30) +1 30 Kenya (31) +1 31 Paraguay (32) +1 32 Brazil (26) -6 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Germany (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 United Arab Emirates (36) 37 South Korea (37) 38 Sweden (38) 39 Czech Republic (39) 40 Denmark (40) 41 Croatia (41) 42 Lithuania (42) 43 Luxembourg (43) 44 Ukraine (44) 45 Finland (45) 46 Latvia (46) 47 Moldova (47) 48 Andorra (49) +1 49 Israel (50) +1 50 Malta (51) +1 51 Cyprus (52) +1 52 Austria (48) -4 53 Norway (53) 54 Slovenia (57) +3 55 Hungary (58) +3 56 Bosnia (59) +3 57 Montenegro (60) +3 58 Turkey (54) -4 59 Serbia (55) -4 60 Bulgaria (56) -4 61 Estonia (61) 62 Kosovo (62) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 684 (gross) 179.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 545.5 [79.8%] (gross) 154.8 [86.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2025-10-04      New Zealand   28       Australia   14 2025-10-04      South Africa   29       Argentina   27 2025-10-11      Paraguay   39       Brazil   19 2025-10-18      Paraguay   31       Brazil   24 2025-10-24      Australia   19       Japan   15 2025-11-01      England   25       Australia   7 2025-11-01      South Africa   61       Japan   7 2025-11-01      Scotland   85       United States   0 2025-11-01      New Zealand   26       Ireland   13 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)