World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 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 Wales (11) +5 7 Fiji (7) 8 England (8) 9 Argentina (6) -3 10 Italy (12) +2 11 Australia (13) +2 12 Japan (14) +2 13 Samoa (9) -4 14 Georgia (10) -4 15 Tonga (15) 16 Portugal (16) 17 Uruguay (18) +1 18 United States (17) -1 19 Romania (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Russia (23) 24 Canada (24) 25 Hong Kong (26) +1 26 Netherlands (27) +1 27 Belgium (28) +1 28 Germany (29) +1 29 Poland (30) +1 30 Switzerland (31) +1 31 Ukraine (32) +1 32 Kenya (33) +1 33 Brazil (34) +1 34 Sweden (35) +1 35 Czech Republic (36) +1 36 Croatia (37) +1 37 Lithuania (38) +1 38 Latvia (39) +1 39 Finland (40) +1 40 Bulgaria (41) +1 41 Malta (42) +1 42 Israel (43) +1 43 Cyprus (44) +1 44 Luxembourg (45) +1 45 Hungary (46) +1 46 Denmark (47) +1 47 Serbia (48) +1 48 Bosnia (49) +1 49 Andorra (50) +1 50 Norway (51) +1 51 Slovenia (52) +1 52 Turkey (53) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 504 (gross) 167.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 413.5 [82.0%] (gross) 148.2 [88.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-09-08      France   27       New Zealand   13 2023-09-09      Italy   52       Namibia   8 2023-09-09      Ireland   82       Romania   8 2023-09-09      Australia   35       Georgia   13 2023-09-09      England   27       Argentina   10 2023-09-10      Japan   42       Chile   12 2023-09-10      South Africa   18       Scotland   3 2023-09-10      Wales   32       Fiji   26 2023-09-14      France   27       Uruguay   12 2023-09-15      New Zealand   71       Namibia   3 2023-09-16      Samoa   43       Chile   10 2023-09-16      Wales   28       Portugal   8 2023-09-16      Ireland   59       Tonga   16 2023-09-17      South Africa   76       Romania   0 2023-09-17      Fiji   22       Australia   15 2023-09-17      England   34       Japan   12 2023-09-20      Italy   38       Uruguay   17 2023-09-21      France   96       Namibia   0 2023-09-22      Argentina   19       Samoa   10 2023-09-23      Georgia   18       Portugal   18 2023-09-23      England   71       Chile   0 2023-09-23      Ireland   13       South Africa   8 2023-09-24      Scotland   45       Tonga   17 2023-09-24      Wales   40       Australia   6 2023-09-27      Uruguay   36       Namibia   26 2023-09-28      Japan   28       Samoa   22 2023-09-29      New Zealand   96       Italy   17 2023-09-30      Argentina   59       Chile   5 2023-09-30      Fiji   17       Georgia   12 2023-09-30      Scotland   84       Romania   0 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)