World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 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 (5) 6 Scotland (6) 7 Argentina (7) 8 Italy (8) 9 Fiji (9) 10 Australia (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Spain (16) 17 Portugal (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Zimbabwe (19) 20 Romania (20) 21 Tonga (21) 22 Russia (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Canada (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Brazil (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Kenya (30) 31 Switzerland (31) 32 Germany (32) 33 Poland (33) 34 Sweden (35) +1 35 Czech Republic (36) +1 36 Paraguay (34) -2 37 Croatia (37) 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Luxembourg (40) +1 40 Colombia (39) -1 41 Ukraine (44) +3 42 Denmark (42) 43 Finland (43) 44 Latvia (41) -3 45 Austria (46) +1 46 Andorra (50) +4 47 Israel (51) +4 48 Malta (49) +1 49 Cyprus (52) +3 50 Bulgaria (48) -2 51 Moldova (45) -6 52 Norway (54) +2 53 Slovenia (55) +2 54 Hungary (56) +2 55 Bosnia (57) +2 56 Montenegro (n/a) 57 Turkey (47) -10 58 Serbia (53) -5 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 654 (gross) 182.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 535.5 [81.9%] (gross) 161.2 [88.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-10-08      Serbia   62       Montenegro   0 2022-10-29      Bosnia   20       Montenegro   18 2023-05-13      Montenegro   26       Turkey   24 2024-10-05      Bosnia   30       Montenegro   20 2025-04-12      Turkey   28       Serbia   12 2025-04-12      Ukraine   86       Hungary   10 2025-04-12      Poland   29       Sweden   25 2025-04-18      Bulgaria   19       Moldova   18 2025-04-18      Slovenia   39       Montenegro   22 2025-04-18      Denmark   13       Latvia   10 2025-04-26      Finland   20       Latvia   19 2025-04-26      Slovenia   34       Bosnia   21 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)