World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 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 (4) 5 Scotland (5) 6 Argentina (6) 7 Fiji (10) +3 8 England (7) -1 9 Samoa (13) +4 10 Georgia (8) -2 11 Wales (9) -2 12 Italy (11) -1 13 Australia (12) -1 14 Japan (14) 15 Tonga (16) +1 16 Portugal (15) -1 17 United States (19) +2 18 Uruguay (17) -1 19 Romania (18) -1 20 Spain (20) 21 Namibia (23) +2 22 Chile (21) -1 23 Russia (22) -1 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 (35) 36 Czech Republic (36) 37 Croatia (37) 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Latvia (39) 40 Finland (40) 41 Bulgaria (41) 42 Malta (42) 43 Israel (43) 44 Cyprus (44) 45 Luxembourg (45) 46 Hungary (46) 47 Denmark (47) 48 Serbia (48) 49 Bosnia (49) 50 Andorra (50) 51 Norway (51) 52 Slovenia (52) 53 Turkey (53) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 507 (gross) 151.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 411 [81.1%] (gross) 132.6 [87.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-08-05      New Zealand   23       Australia   20 2023-08-05      South Africa   24       Argentina   13 2023-08-05      Wales   20       England   9 2023-08-05      Scotland   25       France   21 2023-08-05      Ireland   33       Italy   17 2023-08-05      United States   31       Romania   17 2023-08-05      Fiji   35       Japan   12 2023-08-05      Samoa   34       Tonga   9 2023-08-05      Uruguay   26       Namibia   18 2023-08-10      Tonga   28       Canada   3 2023-08-12      England   19       Wales   17 2023-08-12      France   30       Scotland   27 2023-08-12      Georgia   56       Romania   6 2023-08-12      Portugal   46       United States   20 2023-08-12      Namibia   28       Chile   26 2023-08-15      Tonga   36       Canada   12 2023-08-19      South Africa   52       Wales   16 2023-08-19      Italy   57       Romania   7 2023-08-19      Ireland   29       England   10 2023-08-19      France   34       Fiji   17 2023-08-19      Georgia   22       United States   7 2023-08-25      South Africa   35       New Zealand   7 2023-08-26      Fiji   30       England   22 2023-08-26      Scotland   33       Georgia   6 2023-08-26      Italy   42       Japan   21 2023-08-26      Argentina   62       Spain   3 2023-08-26      Ireland   17       Samoa   13 2023-08-27      France   41       Australia   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/) ©1996-2023 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2023 Paul Waite)