World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2024

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 France (3) 4 New Zealand (4) 5 Scotland (5) 6 England (6) 7 Argentina (7) 8 Italy (10) +2 9 Wales (8) -1 10 Fiji (9) -1 11 Australia (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Georgia (14) 15 Tonga (16) +1 16 Portugal (15) -1 17 United States (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Spain (20) +1 20 Romania (19) -1 21 Hong Kong (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Chile (23) 24 Russia (24) 25 Canada (25) 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Germany (28) +1 28 Switzerland (30) +2 29 Belgium (27) -2 30 Poland (29) -1 31 Sweden (31) 32 Czech Republic (32) 33 Croatia (33) 34 Lithuania (34) 35 Kenya (35) 36 Brazil (36) 37 Ukraine (37) 38 Latvia (38) 39 Bulgaria (39) 40 Malta (40) 41 Luxembourg (41) 42 Finland (44) +2 43 Israel (42) -1 44 Cyprus (43) -1 45 Denmark (45) 46 Serbia (46) 47 Slovenia (47) 48 Hungary (48) 49 Bosnia (49) 50 Andorra (50) 51 Norway (52) +1 52 Turkey (51) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 504 (gross) 165.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 421.5 [83.6%] (gross) 147.2 [88.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2024-03-03      Georgia   43       Romania   5 2024-03-03      Netherlands   54       Poland   7 2024-03-03      Germany   21       Belgium   11 2024-03-04      Portugal   33       Spain   30 2024-03-10      Italy   31       Scotland   29 2024-03-10      England   23       Ireland   22 2024-03-10      Switzerland   41       Czech Republic   25 2024-03-11      France   45       Wales   24 2024-03-16      Italy   24       Wales   21 2024-03-16      Ireland   17       Scotland   13 2024-03-16      France   33       England   31 2024-03-16      Croatia   37       Lithuania   22 2024-03-17      Belgium   34       Poland   8 2024-03-17      Netherlands   45       Germany   0 2024-03-17      Spain   40       Romania   33 2024-03-17      Georgia   36       Portugal   10 2024-03-22      Switzerland   35       Croatia   10 2024-03-23      Czech Republic   48       Ukraine   18 2024-03-23      Sweden   27       Lithuania   8 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)