World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 2025

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 South Africa (1) 2 New Zealand (3) +1 3 France (2) -1 4 Ireland (4) 5 Australia (7) +2 6 England (8) +2 7 Fiji (6) -1 8 Scotland (5) -3 9 Argentina (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 Spain (16) +1 16 Uruguay (18) +2 17 United States (15) -2 18 Portugal (17) -1 19 Zimbabwe (19) 20 Russia (22) +2 21 Namibia (23) +2 22 Chile (24) +2 23 Romania (20) -3 24 Tonga (21) -3 25 Hong Kong (26) +1 26 Brazil (27) +1 27 Belgium (28) +1 28 Canada (25) -3 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Algeria (n/a) 31 Kenya (30) -1 32 Paraguay (36) +4 33 Switzerland (31) -2 34 Germany (32) -2 35 Poland (33) -2 36 United Arab Emirates (n/a) 37 Sweden (34) -3 38 Czech Republic (35) -3 39 Denmark (37) -2 40 Croatia (38) -2 41 Lithuania (39) -2 42 Luxembourg (40) -2 43 Colombia (41) -2 44 Ukraine (42) -2 45 Finland (43) -2 46 Latvia (44) -2 47 Moldova (45) -2 48 Austria (46) -2 49 Andorra (47) -2 50 Israel (48) -2 51 Malta (49) -2 52 Cyprus (50) -2 53 Norway (51) -2 54 Turkey (52) -2 55 Serbia (53) -2 56 Bulgaria (54) -2 57 Slovenia (55) -2 58 Hungary (56) -2 59 Bosnia (57) -2 60 Montenegro (58) -2 61 Estonia (59) -2 62 Kosovo (60) -2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 684 (gross) 185.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 548 [80.1%] (gross) 163.7 [88.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-07-06      Kenya   36       Algeria   33 2022-07-10      Algeria   20       Zimbabwe   12 2024-06-01      Hong Kong   52       United Arab Emirates   5 2024-07-24      Algeria   20       Kenya   12 2024-07-28      Zimbabwe   29       Algeria   3 2024-11-03      Zimbabwe   62       United Arab Emirates   22 2024-11-16      Germany   26       United Arab Emirates   20 2025-06-13      Hong Kong   43       United Arab Emirates   10 2025-07-05      New Zealand   31       France   27 2025-07-05      England   35       Argentina   12 2025-07-05      South Africa   42       Italy   24 2025-07-05      Japan   24       Wales   19 2025-07-05      United States   36       Belgium   17 2025-07-05      Chile   40       Romania   16 2025-07-05      Ireland   34       Georgia   5 2025-07-06      Australia   21       Fiji   18 2025-07-12      Fiji   29       Scotland   14 2025-07-12      Wales   31       Japan   22 2025-07-12      New Zealand   43       France   17 2025-07-12      South Africa   45       Italy   0 2025-07-12      Ireland   106       Portugal   7 2025-07-12      Uruguay   70       Romania   8 2025-07-12      England   22       Argentina   17 2025-07-12      Belgium   25       Canada   18 2025-07-12      Spain   31       United States   20 2025-07-13      Namibia   21       Algeria   7 2025-07-13      Zimbabwe   29       Kenya   23 2025-07-18      Scotland   41       Samoa   12 2025-07-19      New Zealand   29       France   19 2025-07-19      Spain   24       Canada   23 2025-07-19      South Africa   55       Georgia   10 2025-07-19      Argentina   52       Uruguay   17 2025-07-19      England   40       United States   5 2025-07-19      Algeria   15       Kenya   5 2025-07-19      Zimbabwe   30       Namibia   28 2025-07-19      Chile   35       Brazil   21 2025-07-26      Namibia   86       United Arab Emirates   29 2025-07-26      Chile   35       Brazil   20 2025-07-26      Uruguay   38       Paraguay   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)