World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 2023

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 France (2) 3 New Zealand (3) 4 South Africa (5) +1 5 Scotland (6) +1 6 Argentina (7) +1 7 England (8) +1 8 Georgia (11) +3 9 Wales (12) +3 10 Fiji (13) +3 11 Italy (14) +3 12 Australia (4) -8 13 Samoa (10) -3 14 Japan (9) -5 15 Portugal (15) 16 Tonga (16) 17 Uruguay (17) 18 Romania (18) 19 United States (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Chile (21) 22 Russia (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Canada (24) 25 Zimbabwe (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Netherlands (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Germany (29) 30 Poland (30) 31 Switzerland (31) 32 Ukraine (32) 33 Kenya (33) 34 Brazil (34) 35 Sweden (36) +1 36 Czech Republic (37) +1 37 Croatia (38) +1 38 Lithuania (39) +1 39 Latvia (41) +2 40 Finland (42) +2 41 Bulgaria (43) +2 42 Malta (44) +2 43 Israel (45) +2 44 Cyprus (46) +2 45 Luxembourg (47) +2 46 Hungary (48) +2 47 Denmark (49) +2 48 Serbia (50) +2 49 Bosnia (51) +2 50 Andorra (52) +2 51 Norway (53) +2 52 Slovenia (54) +2 53 Turkey (55) +2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 501 (gross) 135.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 404 [80.6%] (gross) 118.1 [87.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-07-08      South Africa   43       Australia   12 2023-07-08      New Zealand   41       Argentina   12 2023-07-15      New Zealand   35       South Africa   20 2023-07-15      Argentina   34       Australia   31 2023-07-22      Samoa   24       Japan   22 2023-07-22      Fiji   36       Tonga   20 2023-07-28      Fiji   33       Samoa   19 2023-07-29      New Zealand   38       Australia   7 2023-07-29      South Africa   22       Argentina   21 2023-07-29      Japan   21       Tonga   19 2023-07-29      Scotland   25       Italy   13 2023-07-29      Uruguay   26       Chile   25 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/) ©1996-2023 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2023 Paul Waite)