World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 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 (6) +1 6 England (7) +1 7 Argentina (8) +1 8 Australia (9) +1 9 Wales (11) +2 10 Fiji (10) 11 Japan (12) +1 12 Italy (5) -7 13 Georgia (16) +3 14 Uruguay (13) -1 15 Chile (14) -1 16 United States (18) +2 17 Portugal (15) -2 18 Spain (17) -1 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 (32) +5 28 Switzerland (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Germany (30) 31 Poland (31) 32 Paraguay (33) +1 33 Brazil (34) +1 34 United Arab Emirates (35) +1 35 South Korea (36) +1 36 Sweden (37) +1 37 Czech Republic (38) +1 38 Lithuania (39) +1 39 Luxembourg (40) +1 40 Croatia (41) +1 41 Ukraine (42) +1 42 Denmark (43) +1 43 Finland (44) +1 44 Latvia (45) +1 45 Andorra (46) +1 46 Moldova (47) +1 47 Austria (48) +1 48 Israel (49) +1 49 Malta (50) +1 50 Cyprus (51) +1 51 Hungary (52) +1 52 Norway (53) +1 53 Turkey (54) +1 54 Serbia (55) +1 55 Bulgaria (56) +1 56 Slovenia (57) +1 57 Bosnia (58) +1 58 Montenegro (59) +1 59 Estonia (60) +1 60 Kosovo (61) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 663 (gross) 167.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 547.5 [82.6%] (gross) 146.0 [87.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2026-07-04      New Zealand   34       France   32 2026-07-04      Japan   27       Italy   10 2026-07-04      Ireland   33       Australia   31 2026-07-04      Wales   39       Fiji   24 2026-07-04      South Africa   45       England   21 2026-07-04      Scotland   47       Argentina   38 2026-07-04      Georgia   41       Uruguay   34 2026-07-04      Samoa   66       Hong Kong   19 2026-07-04      Chile   48       Romania   31 2026-07-04      Tonga   36       Zimbabwe   26 2026-07-04      Canada   42       Spain   42 2026-07-04      United States   30       Portugal   29 2026-07-11      New Zealand   47       Italy   17 2026-07-11      France   42       Australia   26 2026-07-11      Ireland   36       Japan   20 2026-07-11      England   73       Fiji   8 2026-07-11      South Africa   42       Scotland   28 2026-07-11      Argentina   35       Wales   21 2026-07-11      Uruguay   36       Romania   36 2026-07-11      Georgia   33       Samoa   12 2026-07-11      Spain   32       Tonga   19 2026-07-11      Chile   38       Hong Kong   17 2026-07-11      United States   31       Zimbabwe   15 2026-07-11      Portugal   38       Canada   14 2026-07-18      New Zealand   40       Ireland   21 2026-07-18      France   42       Japan   15 2026-07-18      Australia   57       Italy   10 2026-07-18      South Africa   43       Wales   0 2026-07-18      England   31       Argentina   24 2026-07-18      Scotland   33       Fiji   17 2026-07-18      Romania   38       Samoa   37 2026-07-18      Hong Kong   42       Uruguay   40 2026-07-18      Portugal   32       Tonga   28 2026-07-18      Georgia   49       Chile   22 2026-07-18      United States   29       Spain   22 2026-07-18      Canada   23       Zimbabwe   19 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)