World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 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 (5) 6 Argentina (7) +1 7 Scotland (6) -1 8 Italy (9) +1 9 Australia (8) -1 10 Fiji (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Japan (13) +1 13 Georgia (12) -1 14 Spain (14) 15 Uruguay (15) 16 Chile (21) +5 17 United States (16) -1 18 Portugal (17) -1 19 Romania (22) +3 20 Tonga (23) +3 21 Samoa (24) +3 22 Belgium (26) +4 23 Canada (27) +4 24 Netherlands (28) +4 25 Zimbabwe (19) -6 26 Namibia (20) -6 27 Hong Kong (25) -2 28 Algeria (29) +1 29 Poland (35) +6 30 Kenya (30) 31 Paraguay (31) 32 Brazil (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Germany (34) 35 Sweden (38) +3 36 Czech Republic (39) +3 37 United Arab Emirates (36) -1 38 South Korea (37) -1 39 Denmark (40) +1 40 Croatia (41) +1 41 Lithuania (42) +1 42 Luxembourg (43) +1 43 Ukraine (44) +1 44 Finland (45) +1 45 Latvia (46) +1 46 Moldova (47) +1 47 Andorra (48) +1 48 Israel (49) +1 49 Malta (50) +1 50 Cyprus (51) +1 51 Austria (52) +1 52 Norway (53) +1 53 Turkey (58) +5 54 Serbia (59) +5 55 Bulgaria (60) +5 56 Slovenia (54) -2 57 Hungary (55) -2 58 Bosnia (56) -2 59 Montenegro (57) -2 60 Estonia (61) +1 61 Kosovo (62) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 675 (gross) 199.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 548.5 [81.3%] (gross) 174.9 [87.8%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2025-11-08      Georgia   43       United States   30 2025-11-08      Ireland   41       Japan   10 2025-11-08      Samoa   48       Brazil   10 2025-11-08      Uruguay   26       Portugal   8 2025-11-08      New Zealand   25       Scotland   17 2025-11-08      Belgium   22       Namibia   15 2025-11-08      Romania   31       Canada   21 2025-11-08      Italy   26       Australia   19 2025-11-08      England   38       Fiji   18 2025-11-08      South Africa   32       France   17 2025-11-09      Argentina   52       Wales   28 2025-11-13      Belgium   30       Brazil   12 2025-11-13      Samoa   26       Namibia   8 2025-11-15      South Africa   32       Italy   14 2025-11-15      England   33       New Zealand   19 2025-11-15      Wales   24       Japan   23 2025-11-15      France   34       Fiji   21 2025-11-15      Ireland   46       Australia   19 2025-11-15      Georgia   38       Canada   17 2025-11-15      United States   26       Romania   18 2025-11-15      Portugal   58       Hong Kong   12 2025-11-16      Argentina   33       Scotland   24 2025-11-18      Namibia   40       Brazil   31 2025-11-18      Samoa   13       Belgium   13 2025-11-22      Japan   25       Georgia   23 2025-11-22      Uruguay   31       Romania   21 2025-11-22      Portugal   33       Canada   27 2025-11-22      Fiji   41       Spain   33 2025-11-22      New Zealand   52       Wales   26 2025-11-22      South Africa   24       Ireland   13 2025-11-22      Italy   34       Chile   19 2025-11-22      France   48       Australia   33 2025-11-23      Scotland   56       Tonga   0 2025-11-23      England   27       Argentina   23 2025-11-29      South Africa   73       Wales   0 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)