World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2025

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 South Africa (1) 2 France (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 Ireland (4) 5 England (8) +3 6 Scotland (5) -1 7 Argentina (9) +2 8 Italy (10) +2 9 Fiji (6) -3 10 Australia (7) -3 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Portugal (16) 17 Spain (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Zimbabwe (19) 20 Romania (20) 21 Tonga (21) 22 Netherlands (22) 23 Russia (25) +2 24 Namibia (23) -1 25 Chile (24) -1 26 Canada (26) 27 Hong Kong (27) 28 Brazil (28) 29 Belgium (30) +1 30 Germany (29) -1 31 Poland (31) 32 Kenya (32) 33 Switzerland (34) +1 34 Paraguay (33) -1 35 Sweden (35) 36 Czech Republic (36) 37 Croatia (37) 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Colombia (39) 40 Luxembourg (40) 41 Moldova (41) 42 Latvia (43) +1 43 Denmark (44) +1 44 Finland (45) +1 45 Ukraine (42) -3 46 Austria (46) 47 Turkey (47) 48 Bulgaria (48) 49 Malta (49) 50 Andorra (50) 51 Israel (51) 52 Cyprus (52) 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: 634 (gross) 181.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 522.5 [82.4%] (gross) 161.4 [89.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2025-02-08      Romania   31       Belgium   14 2025-02-08      Georgia   40       Netherlands   7 2025-02-08      Italy   22       Wales   15 2025-02-08      England   26       France   25 2025-02-09      Ireland   32       Scotland   18 2025-02-09      Spain   43       Switzerland   13 2025-02-09      Portugal   56       Germany   14 2025-02-15      Netherlands   73       Switzerland   0 2025-02-15      Portugal   34       Romania   6 2025-02-16      Georgia   62       Spain   32 2025-02-16      Belgium   39       Germany   19 2025-02-22      Ireland   27       Wales   18 2025-02-22      England   16       Scotland   15 2025-02-22      Poland   58       Croatia   27 2025-02-23      France   73       Italy   24 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)