World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 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 Australia (5) 6 England (6) 7 Fiji (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Spain (15) +1 15 Uruguay (16) +1 16 United States (17) +1 17 Portugal (18) +1 18 Russia (19) +1 19 Zimbabwe (20) +1 20 Namibia (21) +1 21 Chile (22) +1 22 Romania (23) +1 23 Tonga (24) +1 24 Samoa (14) -10 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Brazil (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Canada (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Algeria (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Paraguay (32) 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 Austria (48) 49 Andorra (49) 50 Israel (50) 51 Malta (51) 52 Cyprus (52) 53 Norway (53) 54 Turkey (54) 55 Serbia (55) 56 Bulgaria (56) 57 Slovenia (57) 58 Hungary (58) 59 Bosnia (59) 60 Montenegro (60) 61 Estonia (61) 62 Kosovo (62) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 693 (gross) 185.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 550.5 [79.4%] (gross) 159.4 [86.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2025-09-06      Australia   28       Argentina   24 2025-09-06      Fiji   29       Samoa   15 2025-09-06      New Zealand   24       South Africa   17 2025-09-06      Japan   47       United States   21 2025-09-06      Chile   21       Uruguay   18 2025-09-13      Argentina   28       Australia   26 2025-09-13      South Africa   43       New Zealand   10 2025-09-14      United States   29       Samoa   13 2025-09-14      Japan   62       Tonga   24 2025-09-14      Fiji   63       Canada   10 2025-09-20      Samoa   32       Chile   32 2025-09-20      Tonga   35       Canada   24 2025-09-20      Fiji   33       Japan   27 2025-09-27      New Zealand   33       Australia   24 2025-09-27      South Africa   67       Argentina   30 2025-09-27      Chile   31       Samoa   12 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)