World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2024

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 South Africa (2) +1 2 France (3) +1 3 New Zealand (4) +1 4 Ireland (1) -3 5 Scotland (5) 6 Fiji (11) +5 7 Australia (9) +2 8 England (6) -2 9 Argentina (7) -2 10 Italy (8) -2 11 Wales (10) -1 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 United States (16) +1 16 Portugal (15) -1 17 Spain (18) +1 18 Uruguay (20) +2 19 Zimbabwe (17) -2 20 Netherlands (26) +6 21 Romania (23) +2 22 Tonga (19) -3 23 Namibia (21) -2 24 Chile (24) 25 Russia (25) 26 Canada (22) -4 27 Hong Kong (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Brazil (29) 30 Belgium (30) 31 Poland (31) 32 Kenya (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Sweden (35) +1 35 Czech Republic (36) +1 36 Paraguay (34) -2 37 Croatia (37) 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Colombia (39) 40 Luxembourg (40) 41 Moldova (42) +1 42 Ukraine (41) -1 43 Latvia (43) 44 Denmark (44) 45 Finland (45) 46 Austria (46) 47 Turkey (47) 48 Bulgaria (49) +1 49 Malta (50) +1 50 Israel (51) +1 51 Cyprus (52) +1 52 Andorra (48) -4 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: 627 (gross) 200.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 513 [81.8%] (gross) 178.0 [88.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2024-11-08      New Zealand   23       Ireland   13 2024-11-09      Australia   42       England   37 2024-11-09      Argentina   50       Italy   18 2024-11-09      France   52       Japan   17 2024-11-09      United States   21       Portugal   17 2024-11-09      Brazil   23       Hong Kong   10 2024-11-09      Chile   44       Canada   14 2024-11-09      Spain   33       Uruguay   24 2024-11-09      Romania   25       Tonga   15 2024-11-09      Czech Republic   49       Croatia   26 2024-11-10      Fiji   24       Wales   19 2024-11-10      South Africa   32       Scotland   15 2024-11-15      Ireland   22       Argentina   19 2024-11-16      Scotland   59       Portugal   21 2024-11-16      South Africa   29       England   20 2024-11-16      France   30       New Zealand   29 2024-11-16      United States   36       Tonga   7 2024-11-16      Japan   36       Uruguay   20 2024-11-16      Hong Kong   38       Brazil   17 2024-11-16      Netherlands   20       Chile   17 2024-11-16      Fiji   33       Spain   19 2024-11-16      Romania   35       Canada   27 2024-11-16      Poland   40       Lithuania   13 2024-11-17      Italy   20       Georgia   17 2024-11-17      Australia   52       Wales   20 2024-11-22      France   37       Argentina   23 2024-11-23      United States   26       Spain   23 2024-11-23      Ireland   52       Fiji   17 2024-11-23      Uruguay   23       Romania   21 2024-11-23      South Africa   45       Wales   12 2024-11-23      New Zealand   29       Italy   11 2024-11-23      Croatia   32       Lithuania   23 2024-11-23      Poland   22       Czech Republic   15 2024-11-24      Scotland   27       Australia   13 2024-11-24      England   59       Japan   14 2024-11-24      Georgia   22       Tonga   7 2024-11-30      Ireland   22       Australia   19 2024-11-30      Malta   10       Andorra   3 2024-11-30      Croatia   31       Luxembourg   31 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)