World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2021

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 England (1) 2 New Zealand (2) 3 Australia (3) 4 South Africa (4) 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 (19) 20 Tonga (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Chile (23) +1 23 Brazil (24) +1 24 Hong Kong (22) -2 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 Ukraine (45) +8 38 Lithuania (46) +8 39 Sweden (47) +8 40 Morocco (37) -3 41 Luxembourg (38) -3 42 Zambia (39) -3 43 Hungary (48) +5 44 Latvia (40) -4 45 Denmark (41) -4 46 Finland (43) -3 47 Moldova (44) -3 48 Austria (49) +1 49 Norway (51) +2 50 Tunisia (52) +2 51 Malta (53) +2 52 Croatia (54) +2 53 Cyprus (56) +3 54 Israel (55) +1 55 Bulgaria (50) -5 56 Serbia (57) +1 57 Slovenia (58) +1 58 Bosnia (61) +3 59 Slovakia (62) +3 60 Andorra (60) 61 Turkey (59) -2 62 Estonia (63) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 600 (gross) 121.7 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 481 [80.2%] (gross) 103.3 [84.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-10-02      Australia   32       Argentina   17 2021-10-02      South Africa   31       New Zealand   29 2021-10-02      United States   19       Uruguay   16 2021-10-02      Canada   22       Chile   21 2021-10-02      Bulgaria   49       Bosnia   24 2021-10-02      Germany   49       Czech Republic   17 2021-10-09      Chile   33       Canada   24 2021-10-09      Uruguay   34       United States   15 2021-10-09      Denmark   29       Finland   19 2021-10-09      Poland   27       Ukraine   24 2021-10-09      Andorra   22       Turkey   12 2021-10-09      Austria   34       Slovenia   15 2021-10-16      Bulgaria   14       Serbia   11 2021-10-23      Australia   32       Japan   23 2021-10-23      Ukraine   39       Lithuania   37 2021-10-23      Sweden   51       Luxembourg   5 2021-10-23      Serbia   37       Turkey   14 2021-10-23      Denmark   47       Norway   0 2021-10-23      New Zealand   104       United States   14 2021-10-30      Scotland   60       Tonga   14 2021-10-30      New Zealand   54       Wales   16 2021-10-30      Germany   46       Lithuania   16 2021-10-30      Malta   24       Slovenia   10 2021-10-30      Bosnia   19       Andorra   18 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)