World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 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 Japan (11) +1 11 Italy (12) +1 12 Fiji (10) -2 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 (31) +3 29 Switzerland (28) -1 30 Netherlands (29) -1 31 Germany (30) -1 32 Paraguay (32) 33 Brazil (33) 34 United Arab Emirates (34) 35 South Korea (35) 36 Sweden (36) 37 Czech Republic (37) 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Luxembourg (39) 40 Croatia (40) 41 Ukraine (41) 42 Denmark (42) 43 Finland (43) 44 Latvia (44) 45 Moldova (46) +1 46 Andorra (45) -1 47 Austria (47) 48 Israel (48) 49 Malta (49) 50 Hungary (51) +1 51 Cyprus (50) -1 52 Turkey (53) +1 53 Norway (52) -1 54 Serbia (54) 55 Bulgaria (55) 56 Slovenia (56) 57 Bosnia (57) 58 Montenegro (58) 59 Estonia (59) 60 Kosovo (60) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 662 (gross) 157.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 543 [82.0%] (gross) 135.1 [86.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2026-09-05      Japan   57       Canada   12 2026-09-05      South Africa   29       New Zealand   24 2026-09-05      Australia   28       Argentina   28 2026-09-12      Fiji   45       Canada   29 2026-09-12      Japan   63       United States   14 2026-09-12      South Africa   43       New Zealand   28 2026-09-19      Canada   19       United States   16 2026-09-19      Japan   20       Fiji   15 2026-09-27      Australia   42       South Africa   38 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)