World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 2022

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 France (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 England (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 Samoa (11) 12 Fiji (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Italy (14) 15 Spain (15) 16 Romania (16) 17 Portugal (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 United States (19) 20 Namibia (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Russia (23) 24 Tonga (24) 25 Zimbabwe (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Kenya (27) 28 Brazil (28) 29 Netherlands (29) 30 Belgium (30) 31 Poland (31) 32 Germany (32) 33 Uganda (33) 34 Zambia (34) 35 Ukraine (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Switzerland (37) 38 Sweden (38) 39 Czech Republic (39) 40 Latvia (40) 41 Moldova (41) 42 Luxembourg (42) 43 Hungary (43) 44 Denmark (44) 45 Croatia (45) 46 Finland (46) 47 Malta (47) 48 Austria (48) 49 Israel (49) 50 Bulgaria (50) 51 Cyprus (51) 52 Serbia (52) 53 Norway (53) 54 Slovenia (54) 55 Bosnia (55) 56 Andorra (56) 57 Turkey (57) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 548 (gross) 143.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 437.5 [79.8%] (gross) 120.4 [84.2%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-08-06      South Africa   26       New Zealand   10 2022-08-07      Australia   41       Argentina   26 2022-08-13      New Zealand   35       South Africa   23 2022-08-14      Argentina   48       Australia   17 2022-08-27      Australia   25       South Africa   17 2022-08-27      Argentina   25       New Zealand   18 2022-09-02      New Zealand   53       Argentina   3 2022-09-03      South Africa   24       Australia   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)