World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 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 Italy (7) +2 6 Scotland (8) +2 7 England (5) -2 8 Argentina (6) -2 9 Australia (9) 10 Fiji (10) 11 Wales (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Uruguay (15) +2 14 Chile (16) +2 15 Portugal (18) +3 16 Georgia (13) -3 17 Spain (14) -3 18 United States (17) -1 19 Romania (19) 20 Tonga (20) 21 Samoa (21) 22 Zimbabwe (22) 23 Belgium (23) 24 Canada (24) 25 Namibia (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Algeria (27) 28 Switzerland (29) +1 29 Netherlands (30) +1 30 Germany (31) +1 31 Poland (32) +1 32 Kenya (28) -4 33 Paraguay (33) 34 Brazil (34) 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 Luxembourg (44) +2 43 Ukraine (42) -1 44 Finland (43) -1 45 Latvia (45) 46 Andorra (47) +1 47 Moldova (46) -1 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: 677 (gross) 179.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 545 [80.5%] (gross) 155.6 [86.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2026-03-06      Ireland   27       Wales   17 2026-03-07      Scotland   50       France   40 2026-03-07      Italy   23       England   18 2026-03-07      Switzerland   35       Germany   25 2026-03-07      Belgium   28       Netherlands   15 2026-03-08      Georgia   53       Romania   30 2026-03-08      Portugal   26       Spain   7 2026-03-14      Ireland   43       Scotland   21 2026-03-14      Wales   31       Italy   17 2026-03-14      France   48       England   46 2026-03-15      Netherlands   76       Germany   7 2026-03-15      Belgium   39       Switzerland   16 2026-03-15      Spain   29       Romania   23 2026-03-15      Portugal   19       Georgia   17 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)