World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2023

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (2) +1 2 France (1) -1 3 New Zealand (3) 4 South Africa (4) 5 Scotland (5) 6 England (6) 7 Italy (7) 8 Australia (8) 9 Japan (9) 10 Samoa (10) 11 Georgia (11) 12 Wales (12) 13 Argentina (13) 14 Fiji (14) 15 Tonga (15) 16 United States (20) +4 17 Spain (16) -1 18 Portugal (19) +1 19 Uruguay (17) -2 20 Romania (18) -2 21 Chile (23) +2 22 Russia (24) +2 23 Namibia (21) -2 24 Canada (22) -2 25 Zimbabwe (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Netherlands (27) 28 Poland (29) +1 29 Switzerland (31) +2 30 Belgium (28) -2 31 Germany (30) -1 32 Kenya (33) +1 33 Brazil (34) +1 34 Lithuania (32) -2 35 Ukraine (35) 36 Zambia (36) 37 Uganda (37) 38 Sweden (38) 39 Czech Republic (39) 40 Croatia (40) 41 Finland (43) +2 42 Bulgaria (41) -1 43 Moldova (42) -1 44 Latvia (44) 45 Denmark (45) 46 Malta (46) 47 Luxembourg (47) 48 Hungary (48) 49 Serbia (49) 50 Israel (50) 51 Cyprus (51) 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: 533 (gross) 153.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 427.5 [80.2%] (gross) 132.4 [86.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-02-04      Ireland   34       Wales   10 2023-02-04      Scotland   29       England   23 2023-02-04      Portugal   54       Belgium   17 2023-02-04      Romania   67       Poland   27 2023-02-04      Spain   28       Netherlands   20 2023-02-04      Georgia   75       Germany   12 2023-02-05      France   29       Italy   24 2023-02-11      Ireland   32       France   19 2023-02-11      Scotland   35       Wales   7 2023-02-11      Portugal   65       Poland   3 2023-02-11      Georgia   40       Netherlands   8 2023-02-11      Romania   56       Belgium   5 2023-02-12      England   31       Italy   14 2023-02-12      Spain   32       Germany   14 2023-02-18      Georgia   41       Spain   3 2023-02-18      Netherlands   33       Germany   29 2023-02-18      Poland   21       Belgium   15 2023-02-18      Portugal   38       Romania   20 2023-02-25      Ireland   34       Italy   20 2023-02-25      England   20       Wales   10 2023-02-26      France   32       Scotland   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)