World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2023

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 South Africa (4) +2 3 France (2) -1 4 New Zealand (3) -1 5 Scotland (5) 6 England (8) +2 7 Argentina (9) +2 8 Wales (6) -2 9 Fiji (7) -2 10 Italy (10) 11 Australia (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Georgia (14) 15 Portugal (16) +1 16 Tonga (15) -1 17 Uruguay (17) 18 United States (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Canada (24) +1 24 Russia (23) -1 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Poland (29) 30 Switzerland (30) 31 Kenya (32) +1 32 Brazil (33) +1 33 Ukraine (31) -2 34 Sweden (34) 35 Czech Republic (35) 36 Croatia (36) 37 Lithuania (37) 38 Finland (39) +1 39 Denmark (46) +7 40 Bulgaria (40) 41 Malta (41) 42 Latvia (38) -4 43 Israel (42) -1 44 Cyprus (43) -1 45 Luxembourg (44) -1 46 Serbia (47) +1 47 Slovenia (51) +4 48 Hungary (45) -3 49 Bosnia (48) -1 50 Andorra (49) -1 51 Norway (50) -1 52 Turkey (52) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 489 (gross) 175.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 406 [83.0%] (gross) 154.4 [88.2%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-10-05      New Zealand   73       Uruguay   0 2023-10-06      France   60       Italy   7 2023-10-07      Wales   43       Georgia   19 2023-10-07      England   18       Samoa   17 2023-10-07      Ireland   36       Scotland   14 2023-10-07      Finland   14       Denmark   10 2023-10-08      Argentina   39       Japan   27 2023-10-08      Tonga   45       Romania   24 2023-10-08      Portugal   24       Fiji   23 2023-10-14      Slovenia   29       Hungary   17 2023-10-14      Luxembourg   59       Bosnia   10 2023-10-14      Argentina   29       Wales   17 2023-10-14      New Zealand   28       Ireland   24 2023-10-15      England   30       Fiji   24 2023-10-15      South Africa   29       France   28 2023-10-20      New Zealand   44       Argentina   6 2023-10-21      South Africa   16       England   15 2023-10-27      England   26       Argentina   23 2023-10-28      South Africa   12       New Zealand   11 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)