World Rugby Rankings^TM, December 2023

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 Ireland (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 France (3) 4 New Zealand (4) 5 Scotland (5) 6 England (6) 7 Argentina (7) 8 Wales (8) 9 Fiji (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Australia (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Georgia (14) 15 Portugal (15) 16 Tonga (16) 17 United States (18) +1 18 Uruguay (17) -1 19 Romania (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Chile (22) 23 Russia (24) +1 24 Canada (23) -1 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Poland (29) 30 Switzerland (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Brazil (32) 33 Sweden (34) +1 34 Czech Republic (35) +1 35 Croatia (36) +1 36 Lithuania (37) +1 37 Ukraine (33) -4 38 Latvia (42) +4 39 Bulgaria (40) +1 40 Malta (41) +1 41 Luxembourg (45) +4 42 Israel (43) +1 43 Cyprus (44) +1 44 Finland (38) -6 45 Denmark (39) -6 46 Serbia (46) 47 Slovenia (47) 48 Hungary (48) 49 Bosnia (49) 50 Andorra (50) 51 Turkey (52) +1 52 Norway (51) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 490 (gross) 176.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 408 [83.3%] (gross) 156.5 [88.8%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2023-11-04      Czech Republic   48       Croatia   22 2023-11-04      Lithuania   32       Ukraine   14 2023-11-04      Switzerland   23       Sweden   12 2023-11-04      Malta   22       Cyprus   17 2023-11-12      United States   48       Brazil   3 2023-11-12      Spain   42       Canada   20 2023-11-12      Switzerland   31       Lithuania   17 2023-11-12      Croatia   41       Ukraine   5 2023-11-12      Latvia   53       Norway   8 2023-11-14      Hong Kong   29       Germany   16 2023-11-18      Hong Kong   46       Germany   10 2023-11-19      Canada   40       Brazil   15 2023-11-19      United States   42       Spain   12 2023-11-19      Sweden   22       Croatia   20 2023-11-26      Czech Republic   34       Lithuania   24 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)