World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2022

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 England (1) 2 France (2) 3 Ireland (3) 4 New Zealand (4) 5 Australia (5) 6 South Africa (6) 7 Argentina (7) 8 Wales (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Japan (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Georgia (13) +1 13 Italy (12) -1 14 Spain (15) +1 15 Romania (14) -1 16 Portugal (17) +1 17 Uruguay (16) -1 18 United States (18) 19 Samoa (19) 20 Canada (21) +1 21 Chile (22) +1 22 Russia (23) +1 23 Namibia (24) +1 24 Tonga (20) -4 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Kenya (28) +2 27 Zimbabwe (29) +2 28 Brazil (30) +2 29 Netherlands (26) -3 30 Belgium (27) -3 31 Poland (31) 32 Germany (32) 33 Uganda (33) 34 Morocco (34) 35 Zambia (35) 36 Czech Republic (39) +3 37 Ukraine (36) -1 38 Lithuania (37) -1 39 Switzerland (38) -1 40 Hungary (40) 41 Latvia (41) 42 Sweden (42) 43 Luxembourg (43) 44 Denmark (44) 45 Finland (45) 46 Moldova (46) 47 Tunisia (47) 48 Croatia (48) 49 Austria (49) 50 Norway (50) 51 Malta (51) 52 Israel (52) 53 Bulgaria (53) 54 Serbia (54) 55 Cyprus (55) 56 Slovenia (56) 57 Bosnia (57) 58 Slovakia (60) +2 59 Andorra (58) -1 60 Turkey (59) -1 61 Estonia (61) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 577 (gross) 137.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 460.5 [79.8%] (gross) 119.2 [86.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-02-05      Ireland   29       Wales   7 2022-02-05      Scotland   20       England   17 2022-02-05      Romania   34       Russia   25 2022-02-05      Spain   43       Netherlands   0 2022-02-06      France   37       Italy   10 2022-02-06      Georgia   25       Portugal   25 2022-02-12      Wales   20       Scotland   17 2022-02-12      France   30       Ireland   24 2022-02-12      Spain   41       Russia   37 2022-02-12      Georgia   74       Netherlands   10 2022-02-12      Romania   37       Portugal   27 2022-02-13      England   33       Italy   0 2022-02-19      Belgium   33       Germany   26 2022-02-26      France   36       Scotland   17 2022-02-26      England   23       Wales   19 2022-02-26      Portugal   59       Netherlands   3 2022-02-27      Ireland   57       Italy   6 2022-02-27      Spain   38       Romania   21 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)