World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2022

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 France (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 South Africa (6) +2 5 Scotland (9) +4 6 England (4) -2 7 Italy (14) +7 8 Australia (5) -3 9 Japan (10) +1 10 Samoa (11) +1 11 Georgia (13) +2 12 Wales (8) -4 13 Argentina (7) -6 14 Fiji (12) -2 15 Tonga (24) +9 16 Spain (15) -1 17 Uruguay (18) +1 18 Romania (16) -2 19 Portugal (17) -2 20 United States (19) -1 21 Namibia (20) -1 22 Canada (21) -1 23 Chile (22) -1 24 Russia (23) -1 25 Zimbabwe (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Netherlands (29) +2 28 Belgium (30) +2 29 Poland (31) +2 30 Germany (32) +2 31 Switzerland (38) +7 32 Lithuania (37) +5 33 Kenya (27) -6 34 Brazil (28) -6 35 Ukraine (36) +1 36 Zambia (34) -2 37 Uganda (33) -4 38 Sweden (35) -3 39 Czech Republic (39) 40 Croatia (40) 41 Bulgaria (43) +2 42 Moldova (41) -1 43 Finland (42) -1 44 Latvia (44) 45 Denmark (46) +1 46 Malta (45) -1 47 Luxembourg (48) +1 48 Hungary (49) +1 49 Serbia (51) +2 50 Israel (47) -3 51 Cyprus (50) -1 52 Austria (52) 53 Bosnia (53) 54 Andorra (54) 55 Turkey (55) 56 Norway (56) 57 Slovenia (57) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 537 (gross) 168.7 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 426.5 [79.4%] (gross) 143.4 [85.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-11-05      France   30       Australia   29 2022-11-05      Ireland   19       South Africa   16 2022-11-05      New Zealand   55       Wales   23 2022-11-05      Scotland   28       Fiji   12 2022-11-05      Italy   49       Samoa   17 2022-11-05      Tonga   40       Spain   6 2022-11-05      Romania   30       Chile   23 2022-11-05      Switzerland   69       Sweden   12 2022-11-05      Lithuania   39       Ukraine   20 2022-11-05      Bulgaria   34       Israel   15 2022-11-06      Argentina   30       England   29 2022-11-06      Georgia   34       Uruguay   18 2022-11-06      United States   68       Kenya   14 2022-11-06      Portugal   42       Hong Kong   14 2022-11-12      France   30       South Africa   26 2022-11-12      Wales   20       Argentina   13 2022-11-12      England   52       Japan   13 2022-11-12      Italy   28       Australia   27 2022-11-12      Ireland   35       Fiji   17 2022-11-12      Portugal   85       Kenya   0 2022-11-12      Samoa   20       Georgia   19 2022-11-12      United States   49       Hong Kong   7 2022-11-12      Tonga   39       Chile   10 2022-11-12      Spain   34       Namibia   15 2022-11-12      Canada   37       Netherlands   25 2022-11-12      Switzerland   45       Lithuania   6 2022-11-12      Czech Republic   39       Moldova   13 2022-11-12      Israel   22       Cyprus   21 2022-11-13      New Zealand   31       Scotland   23 2022-11-13      Uruguay   21       Romania   16 2022-11-18      Hong Kong   22       Kenya   18 2022-11-18      United States   16       Portugal   16 2022-11-19      Ireland   13       Australia   10 2022-11-19      New Zealand   25       England   25 2022-11-19      Scotland   52       Argentina   29 2022-11-19      Georgia   13       Wales   12 2022-11-19      South Africa   63       Italy   21 2022-11-19      Namibia   43       Canada   37 2022-11-19      Tonga   43       Uruguay   19 2022-11-19      Samoa   22       Romania   0 2022-11-20      France   35       Japan   17 2022-11-26      South Africa   27       England   13 2022-11-26      Australia   39       Wales   34 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)