World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 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 England (5) 6 Argentina (6) 7 Italy (8) +1 8 Scotland (7) -1 9 Australia (9) 10 Fiji (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Spain (14) 15 Uruguay (15) 16 Chile (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Portugal (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Tonga (20) 21 Samoa (21) 22 Zimbabwe (25) +3 23 Belgium (22) -1 24 Canada (23) -1 25 Namibia (26) +1 26 Hong Kong (27) +1 27 Algeria (28) +1 28 Kenya (30) +2 29 Switzerland (33) +4 30 Netherlands (24) -6 31 Germany (34) +3 32 Poland (29) -3 33 Paraguay (31) -2 34 Brazil (32) -2 35 Sweden (35) 36 Czech Republic (36) 37 United Arab Emirates (37) 38 South Korea (38) 39 Denmark (39) 40 Croatia (40) 41 Lithuania (41) 42 Ukraine (43) +1 43 Finland (44) +1 44 Luxembourg (42) -2 45 Latvia (45) 46 Moldova (46) 47 Andorra (47) 48 Israel (48) 49 Malta (49) 50 Cyprus (50) 51 Austria (51) 52 Norway (52) 53 Turkey (53) 54 Serbia (54) 55 Bulgaria (55) 56 Slovenia (56) 57 Hungary (57) 58 Bosnia (58) 59 Montenegro (59) 60 Estonia (60) 61 Kosovo (61) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 681 (gross) 180.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 554 [81.4%] (gross) 158.5 [87.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2026-02-05      France   36       Ireland   14 2026-02-07      Italy   18       Scotland   15 2026-02-07      England   48       Wales   7 2026-02-07      Spain   51       Netherlands   33 2026-02-07      Portugal   47       Belgium   17 2026-02-08      Georgia   54       Switzerland   3 2026-02-08      Germany   30       Romania   24 2026-02-14      Ireland   20       Italy   13 2026-02-14      Scotland   31       England   20 2026-02-14      Portugal   68       Germany   12 2026-02-14      Spain   53       Switzerland   14 2026-02-15      France   54       Wales   12 2026-02-15      Georgia   61       Netherlands   12 2026-02-15      Romania   23       Belgium   6 2026-02-21      Ireland   42       England   21 2026-02-21      Scotland   26       Wales   23 2026-02-21      Georgia   42       Spain   30 2026-02-21      Belgium   18       Germany   3 2026-02-22      France   33       Italy   8 2026-02-22      Switzerland   29       Netherlands   23 2026-02-22      Portugal   44       Romania   7 2026-02-28      Poland   73       Croatia   3 2026-02-28      Czech Republic   87       Lithuania   5 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)