World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2024

"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 (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Hong Kong (25) +4 22 Namibia (21) -1 23 Chile (22) -1 24 Russia (23) -1 25 Canada (24) -1 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Poland (29) 30 Switzerland (30) 31 Sweden (33) +2 32 Czech Republic (34) +2 33 Croatia (35) +2 34 Lithuania (36) +2 35 Kenya (31) -4 36 Brazil (32) -4 37 Ukraine (37) 38 Latvia (38) 39 Bulgaria (39) 40 Malta (40) 41 Luxembourg (41) 42 Israel (42) 43 Cyprus (43) 44 Finland (44) 45 Denmark (45) 46 Serbia (46) 47 Slovenia (47) 48 Hungary (48) 49 Bosnia (49) 50 Andorra (50) 51 Turkey (51) 52 Norway (52) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 491 (gross) 159.9 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 412.5 [84.0%] (gross) 142.8 [89.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2024-02-02      Ireland   38       France   17 2024-02-03      England   27       Italy   24 2024-02-03      Scotland   27       Wales   26 2024-02-03      Spain   20       Netherlands   18 2024-02-03      Belgium   10       Portugal   6 2024-02-04      Georgia   28       Germany   17 2024-02-04      Romania   20       Poland   8 2024-02-09      Georgia   31       Netherlands   10 2024-02-10      France   20       Scotland   16 2024-02-10      England   16       Wales   14 2024-02-10      Romania   33       Belgium   18 2024-02-10      Portugal   54       Poland   7 2024-02-11      Ireland   36       Italy   0 2024-02-11      Spain   27       Germany   5 2024-02-17      Georgia   38       Spain   3 2024-02-17      Portugal   49       Romania   24 2024-02-17      Belgium   31       Poland   10 2024-02-18      Netherlands   39       Germany   13 2024-02-24      Ireland   31       Wales   7 2024-02-24      Scotland   30       England   21 2024-02-25      France   13       Italy   13 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/) ©1996-2024 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2024 Paul Waite)