World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 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 (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 Wales (9) 10 Fiji (12) +2 11 Japan (10) -1 12 Italy (11) -1 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 Poland (28) 29 Switzerland (29) 30 Netherlands (30) 31 Germany (31) 32 Czech Republic (37) +5 33 Paraguay (32) -1 34 Brazil (33) -1 35 United Arab Emirates (34) -1 36 South Korea (35) -1 37 Sweden (36) -1 38 Malta (49) +11 39 Lithuania (38) -1 40 Ukraine (41) +1 41 Luxembourg (39) -2 42 Denmark (42) 43 Croatia (40) -3 44 Israel (48) +4 45 Andorra (46) +1 46 Cyprus (51) +5 47 Finland (43) -4 48 Latvia (44) -4 49 Austria (47) -2 50 Moldova (45) -5 51 Bulgaria (55) +4 52 Turkey (52) 53 Serbia (54) +1 54 Norway (53) -1 55 Slovenia (56) +1 56 Hungary (50) -6 57 Bosnia (57) 58 Montenegro (58) 59 Estonia (59) 60 Slovakia (n/a) 61 Kosovo (60) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 709 (gross) 181.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 590 [83.2%] (gross) 158.6 [87.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2024-10-26      Hungary   51       Slovakia   16 2024-11-09      Ukraine   135       Slovakia   13 2025-05-03      Austria   117       Slovakia   3 2025-10-25      Serbia   52       Slovakia   12 2025-11-08      Austria   62       Slovakia   3 2026-04-25      Slovenia   45       Slovakia   17 2026-10-03      Croatia   27       Serbia   5 2026-10-03      Austria   36       Slovenia   19 2026-10-03      Turkey   31       Bulgaria   31 2026-10-10      New Zealand   50       Australia   19 2026-10-10      Finland   34       Estonia   3 2026-10-10      Croatia   24       Austria   18 2026-10-17      New Zealand   43       Australia   21 2026-10-17      Luxembourg   106       Estonia   5 2026-10-17      Croatia   53       Slovenia   8 2026-10-17      Israel   32       Andorra   20 2026-10-23      Fiji   34       Japan   28 2026-10-24      Zimbabwe   36       Namibia   33 2026-10-24      Luxembourg   41       Norway   12 2026-10-31      Belgium   27       Hong Kong   17 2026-10-31      Germany   54       Lithuania   7 2026-10-31      Malta   36       Denmark   17 2026-10-31      Czech Republic   31       Sweden   28 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)