World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2022

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 France (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 England (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 Sweden (38) +3 36 Ukraine (35) -1 37 Lithuania (36) -1 38 Switzerland (37) -1 39 Czech Republic (39) 40 Croatia (45) +5 41 Moldova (41) 42 Finland (46) +4 43 Bulgaria (50) +7 44 Latvia (40) -4 45 Malta (47) +2 46 Denmark (44) -2 47 Israel (49) +2 48 Luxembourg (42) -6 49 Hungary (43) -6 50 Cyprus (51) +1 51 Serbia (52) +1 52 Austria (48) -4 53 Bosnia (55) +2 54 Andorra (56) +2 55 Turkey (57) +2 56 Norway (53) -3 57 Slovenia (54) -3 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 540 (gross) 138.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 432.5 [80.1%] (gross) 119.0 [85.7%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-10-08      Czech Republic   41       Hungary   21 2022-10-15      Bulgaria   23       Malta   14 2022-10-15      Finland   31       Denmark   6 2022-10-15      Serbia   23       Turkey   6 2022-10-22      Ukraine   27       Croatia   22 2022-10-22      Malta   42       Slovenia   10 2022-10-22      Finland   22       Norway   3 2022-10-29      New Zealand   38       Japan   31 2022-10-29      Australia   16       Scotland   15 2022-10-29      Sweden   37       Croatia   17 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)