World Rugby Rankings^TM, June 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 Italy (8) 9 Wales (9) 10 Fiji (10) 11 Australia (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Georgia (14) 15 Tonga (15) 16 Portugal (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Spain (19) 20 Romania (20) 21 Hong Kong (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Chile (23) 24 Russia (24) 25 Canada (25) 26 Netherlands (26) 27 Germany (27) 28 Brazil (35) +7 29 Switzerland (28) -1 30 Belgium (29) -1 31 Poland (30) -1 32 Sweden (31) -1 33 Czech Republic (32) -1 34 Croatia (33) -1 35 Kenya (34) -1 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Latvia (38) +1 38 Luxembourg (39) +1 39 Moldova (n/a) 40 Finland (40) 41 Ukraine (37) -4 42 Denmark (41) -1 43 Bulgaria (42) -1 44 Malta (43) -1 45 Israel (44) -1 46 Cyprus (45) -1 47 Austria (46) -1 48 Slovenia (47) -1 49 Hungary (48) -1 50 Turkey (49) -1 51 Serbia (50) -1 52 Andorra (52) 53 Bosnia (51) -2 54 Norway (53) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 527 (gross) 159.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 437.5 [83.0%] (gross) 142.3 [89.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2022-05-07      Moldova   27       Denmark   19 2022-11-12      Czech Republic   39       Moldova   13 2023-09-30      Moldova   33       Turkey   14 2023-10-07      Moldova   31       Serbia   11 2024-05-04      Malta   24       Cyprus   14 2024-05-04      Moldova   48       Bulgaria   6 2024-05-04      Andorra   32       Norway   8 2024-05-11      Finland   57       Norway   7 2024-05-25      Luxembourg   19       Moldova   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/) ©1996-2024 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2024 Paul Waite)