World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2024

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 France (3) 4 New Zealand (4) 5 Scotland (5) 6 England (6) 7 Argentina (7) 8 Italy (8) 9 Australia (9) 10 Wales (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 Portugal (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Zimbabwe (17) 18 Spain (18) 19 Tonga (19) 20 Uruguay (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Canada (22) 23 Romania (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Russia (25) 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Hong Kong (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Brazil (29) 30 Belgium (30) 31 Poland (32) +1 32 Kenya (33) +1 33 Switzerland (31) -2 34 Paraguay (38) +4 35 Sweden (34) -1 36 Czech Republic (35) -1 37 Croatia (36) -1 38 Lithuania (37) -1 39 Colombia (n/a) 40 Luxembourg (42) +2 41 Ukraine (40) -1 42 Moldova (43) +1 43 Latvia (41) -2 44 Denmark (45) +1 45 Finland (39) -6 46 Austria (44) -2 47 Turkey (52) +5 48 Andorra (54) +6 49 Bulgaria (46) -3 50 Malta (47) -3 51 Israel (48) -3 52 Cyprus (49) -3 53 Serbia (53) 54 Norway (56) +2 55 Slovenia (50) -5 56 Hungary (51) -5 57 Bosnia (55) -2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 604 (gross) 174.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 498 [82.5%] (gross) 155.5 [89.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-08-25      Colombia   16       Kenya   15 2022-08-20      Paraguay   21       Colombia   13 2022-08-28      Brazil   52       Colombia   13 2023-08-19      Paraguay   50       Colombia   7 2024-10-05      Chile   36       Brazil   10 2024-10-05      Turkey   49       Bulgaria   10 2024-10-05      Malta   43       Cyprus   21 2024-10-05      Moldova   31       Serbia   3 2024-10-05      Denmark   42       Finland   0 2024-10-16      Paraguay   49       Colombia   18 2024-10-19      Finland   81       Norway   10 2024-10-26      New Zealand   64       Japan   19 2024-10-26      Sweden   22       Czech Republic   16 2024-10-26      Lithuania   47       Luxembourg   20 2024-10-26      Latvia   36       Norway   19 2024-11-02      New Zealand   24       England   22 2024-11-02      Sweden   46       Lithuania   19 2024-11-03      Scotland   57       Fiji   17 2024-11-03      Belgium   48       Switzerland   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)