World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2021

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 England (3) 4 France (4) 5 Japan (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Wales (8) +1 8 Scotland (7) -1 9 Australia (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 United States (15) 16 Samoa (16) 17 Spain (17) 18 Russia (18) 19 Namibia (19) 20 Portugal (20) 21 Romania (21) 22 Netherlands (22) 23 Chile (23) 24 Uruguay (24) 25 Brazil (25) 26 Canada (26) 27 Hong Kong (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Switzerland (29) 30 Germany (30) 31 Poland (31) 32 Cote d'Ivoire (32) 33 Kenya (33) 34 Zimbabwe (34) 35 Uganda (35) 36 Ukraine (36) 37 Lithuania (37) 38 Algeria (38) 39 Zambia (40) +1 40 Czech Republic (39) -1 41 Paraguay (42) +1 42 Luxembourg (41) -1 43 Senegal (43) 44 Latvia (44) 45 Sweden (45) 46 Denmark (46) 47 Finland (55) +8 48 Tunisia (47) -1 49 Morocco (48) -1 50 Malta (49) -1 51 Bulgaria (50) -1 52 Croatia (51) -1 53 Israel (52) -1 54 Gibraltar (53) -1 55 Hungary (54) -1 56 Moldova (56) 57 Austria (57) 58 Cyprus (58) 59 Serbia (59) 60 Norway (60) 61 Slovenia (61) 62 Turkey (62) 63 Andorra (63) 64 Bosnia (64) 65 Slovakia (65) 66 Estonia (66) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 672 (gross) 118.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 545 [81.1%] (gross) 99.2 [83.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-02-06      France   50       Italy   10 2021-02-06      Scotland   11       England   6 2021-02-07      Romania   28       Belgium   0 2021-02-07      Georgia   16       Russia   7 2021-02-07      Spain   25       Portugal   11 2021-02-07      Wales   21       Ireland   16 2021-02-13      England   41       Italy   18 2021-02-13      Wales   25       Scotland   24 2021-02-14      France   15       Ireland   13 2021-02-27      Ireland   48       Italy   10 2021-02-27      Wales   40       England   24 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/) ©1996-2020 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2020 Paul Waite)