World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 2026

"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 Scotland (5) 6 England (6) 7 Australia (8) +1 8 Argentina (7) -1 9 Wales (9) 10 Fiji (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Uruguay (14) 15 Chile (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Portugal (17) 18 Spain (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Tonga (20) 21 Samoa (21) 22 Belgium (22) 23 Canada (23) 24 Zimbabwe (24) 25 Namibia (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Kenya (27) 28 Switzerland (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Germany (30) 31 Poland (31) 32 Paraguay (32) 33 Brazil (33) 34 United Arab Emirates (34) 35 South Korea (35) 36 Sweden (36) 37 Czech Republic (37) 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Luxembourg (39) 40 Croatia (40) 41 Ukraine (41) 42 Denmark (42) 43 Finland (43) 44 Latvia (44) 45 Andorra (45) 46 Moldova (46) 47 Austria (47) 48 Israel (48) 49 Malta (49) 50 Cyprus (50) 51 Hungary (51) 52 Norway (52) 53 Turkey (53) 54 Serbia (54) 55 Bulgaria (55) 56 Slovenia (56) 57 Bosnia (57) 58 Montenegro (58) 59 Estonia (59) 60 Kosovo (60) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 660 (gross) 160.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 547.5 [83.0%] (gross) 139.7 [87.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2026-08-08      Australia   35       Japan   32 2026-08-08      South Africa   17       Argentina   10 2026-08-15      Australia   56       Japan   17 2026-08-22      New Zealand   33       South Africa   16 2026-08-29      South Africa   33       New Zealand   26 2026-08-29      Australia   27       Argentina   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)