World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2022

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 France (2) +1 2 Ireland (3) +1 3 Scotland (9) +6 4 England (1) -3 5 New Zealand (4) -1 6 Australia (5) -1 7 South Africa (6) -1 8 Argentina (7) -1 9 Japan (10) +1 10 Italy (13) +3 11 Wales (8) -3 12 Fiji (11) -1 13 Georgia (12) -1 14 Spain (14) 15 Romania (15) 16 Portugal (16) 17 Uruguay (17) 18 United States (18) 19 Samoa (19) 20 Canada (20) 21 Chile (21) 22 Russia (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Tonga (24) 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Kenya (26) 27 Zimbabwe (27) 28 Brazil (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Belgium (30) 31 Uganda (33) +2 32 Poland (31) -1 33 Germany (32) -1 34 Morocco (34) 35 Zambia (35) 36 Ukraine (37) +1 37 Lithuania (38) +1 38 Switzerland (39) +1 39 Sweden (42) +3 40 Czech Republic (36) -4 41 Luxembourg (43) +2 42 Hungary (40) -2 43 Latvia (41) -2 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 Bulgaria (53) +1 53 Israel (52) -1 54 Serbia (54) 55 Cyprus (55) 56 Slovenia (56) 57 Bosnia (57) 58 Andorra (59) +1 59 Turkey (60) +1 60 Estonia (61) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 558 (gross) 139.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 441.5 [79.1%] (gross) 119.7 [86.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-03-11      France   13       Wales   9 2022-03-12      Ireland   32       England   15 2022-03-12      Scotland   33       Italy   22 2022-03-12      Georgia   26       Romania   23 2022-03-12      Switzerland   22       Belgium   18 2022-03-12      Luxembourg   30       Hungary   23 2022-03-13      Spain   33       Portugal   28 2022-03-19      Italy   22       Wales   21 2022-03-19      Ireland   26       Scotland   5 2022-03-19      France   25       England   13 2022-03-19      Germany   34       Switzerland   25 2022-03-19      Belgium   41       Poland   11 2022-03-21      Georgia   49       Spain   15 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)