World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 2021

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 England (3) +2 2 New Zealand (1) -1 3 Australia (4) +1 4 South Africa (2) -2 5 France (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Argentina (7) 8 Wales (8) 9 Japan (9) 10 Scotland (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Italy (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Romania (14) 15 Spain (15) 16 Uruguay (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Samoa (18) 19 Portugal (20) +1 20 Tonga (19) -1 21 Canada (21) 22 Hong Kong (22) 23 Chile (23) 24 Brazil (24) 25 Netherlands (25) 26 Belgium (26) 27 Russia (27) 28 Namibia (28) 29 Switzerland (29) 30 Germany (30) 31 Poland (31) 32 Kenya (32) 33 Zimbabwe (33) 34 Algeria (34) 35 Uganda (35) 36 Czech Republic (36) 37 Morocco (37) 38 Luxembourg (38) 39 Zambia (39) 40 Latvia (40) 41 Denmark (41) 42 Gibraltar (42) 43 Finland (43) 44 Moldova (44) 45 Ukraine (45) 46 Lithuania (46) 47 Sweden (47) 48 Hungary (48) 49 Austria (49) 50 Bulgaria (50) 51 Norway (51) 52 Tunisia (52) 53 Malta (53) 54 Croatia (54) 55 Israel (55) 56 Cyprus (56) 57 Serbia (57) 58 Slovenia (58) 59 Turkey (59) 60 Andorra (60) 61 Bosnia (61) 62 Slovakia (62) 63 Estonia (63) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 597 (gross) 107.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 476 [79.7%] (gross) 90.8 [84.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-09-04      Canada   34       United States   21 2021-09-04      New Zealand   38       Australia   21 2021-09-11      United States   38       Canada   16 2021-09-12      New Zealand   39       Argentina   0 2021-09-12      Australia   28       South Africa   26 2021-09-18      Australia   30       South Africa   17 2021-09-18      New Zealand   36       Argentina   13 2021-09-25      New Zealand   19       South Africa   17 2021-09-25      Australia   27       Argentina   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/) ©1996-2020 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2020 Paul Waite)