World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2023

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 France (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 Australia (8) +4 5 South Africa (4) -1 6 Scotland (5) -1 7 Argentina (13) +6 8 England (6) -2 9 Japan (9) 10 Samoa (10) 11 Georgia (11) 12 Wales (12) 13 Fiji (14) +1 14 Italy (7) -7 15 Portugal (18) +3 16 Tonga (15) -1 17 Uruguay (19) +2 18 Romania (20) +2 19 United States (16) -3 20 Spain (17) -3 21 Chile (21) 22 Russia (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Canada (24) 25 Zimbabwe (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Netherlands (27) 28 Belgium (30) +2 29 Germany (31) +2 30 Poland (28) -2 31 Switzerland (29) -2 32 Kenya (32) 33 Brazil (33) 34 Ukraine (35) +1 35 Bulgaria (42) +7 36 Zambia (36) 37 Sweden (38) +1 38 Croatia (40) +2 39 Lithuania (34) -5 40 Czech Republic (39) -1 41 Malta (46) +5 42 Uganda (37) -5 43 Finland (41) -2 44 Israel (50) +6 45 Cyprus (51) +6 46 Moldova (43) -3 47 Denmark (45) -2 48 Serbia (49) +1 49 Latvia (44) -5 50 Bosnia (53) +3 51 Andorra (54) +3 52 Luxembourg (47) -5 53 Hungary (48) -5 54 Turkey (55) +1 55 Slovenia (57) +2 56 Norway (56) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 524 (gross) 159.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 420 [80.2%] (gross) 137.5 [86.2%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-03-04      Portugal   27       Spain   10 2023-03-04      Netherlands   31       Belgium   19 2023-03-05      Georgia   31       Romania   7 2023-03-05      Germany   23       Poland   18 2023-03-11      Wales   29       Italy   17 2023-03-11      France   53       England   10 2023-03-11      Switzerland   59       Ukraine   32 2023-03-12      Ireland   22       Scotland   7 2023-03-18      Ukraine   38       Sweden   15 2023-03-18      Scotland   26       Italy   14 2023-03-18      France   41       Wales   28 2023-03-18      Ireland   29       England   16 2023-03-20      Belgium   18       Poland   17 2023-03-20      Netherlands   50       Germany   28 2023-03-20      Romania   31       Spain   25 2023-03-20      Georgia   38       Portugal   11 2023-03-26      Croatia   39       Lithuania   37 2023-03-26      Malta   41       Cyprus   24 2023-04-01      Switzerland   32       Croatia   22 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)