World Rugby Rankings^TM, August 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 Fiji (11) +3 9 Samoa (8) -1 10 Italy (9) -1 11 Australia (12) +1 12 Wales (10) -2 13 Georgia (13) 14 Japan (14) 15 Portugal (16) +1 16 Spain (20) +4 17 Tonga (15) -2 18 Uruguay (17) -1 19 Namibia (22) +3 20 Canada (25) +5 21 Netherlands (26) +5 22 Romania (18) -4 23 United States (19) -4 24 Chile (23) -1 25 Russia (24) -1 26 Hong Kong (21) -5 27 Germany (27) 28 Brazil (30) +2 29 Switzerland (28) -1 30 Belgium (29) -1 31 Poland (31) 32 Sweden (32) 33 Czech Republic (33) 34 Kenya (36) +2 35 Croatia (34) -1 36 Lithuania (35) -1 37 Paraguay (n/a) 38 Latvia (37) -1 39 Luxembourg (38) -1 40 Moldova (39) -1 41 Finland (40) -1 42 Ukraine (41) -1 43 Denmark (42) -1 44 Bulgaria (43) -1 45 Malta (44) -1 46 Israel (45) -1 47 Cyprus (46) -1 48 Austria (47) -1 49 Slovenia (48) -1 50 Hungary (49) -1 51 Turkey (50) -1 52 Serbia (51) -1 53 Andorra (52) -1 54 Bosnia (53) -1 55 Norway (54) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 565 (gross) 170.7 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 464.5 [82.2%] (gross) 151.7 [88.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-06-26      Brazil   29       Paraguay   0 2022-08-24      Brazil   31       Paraguay   28 2023-08-27      Brazil   41       Paraguay   22 2024-07-06      New Zealand   16       England   15 2024-07-06      Australia   25       Wales   16 2024-07-06      South Africa   27       Ireland   20 2024-07-06      France   28       Argentina   13 2024-07-06      Scotland   73       Canada   12 2024-07-06      Chile   22       Hong Kong   17 2024-07-10      France   43       Uruguay   28 2024-07-11      Italy   36       Tonga   14 2024-07-12      Scotland   42       United States   7 2024-07-12      Canada   35       Romania   22 2024-07-13      New Zealand   24       England   17 2024-07-13      Australia   36       Wales   28 2024-07-13      Ireland   25       South Africa   24 2024-07-13      Argentina   33       France   25 2024-07-13      Georgia   25       Japan   23 2024-07-13      Samoa   34       Spain   30 2024-07-13      Hong Kong   80       Paraguay   12 2024-07-13      Chile   33       Belgium   5 2024-07-13      Portugal   37       Namibia   22 2024-07-18      Spain   29       Tonga   20 2024-07-20      New Zealand   47       Fiji   5 2024-07-20      Australia   40       Georgia   29 2024-07-20      South Africa   64       Portugal   21 2024-07-20      Argentina   79       Uruguay   5 2024-07-20      Hong Kong   26       Brazil   25 2024-07-20      Belgium   45       Paraguay   20 2024-07-20      Scotland   52       Chile   11 2024-07-21      Italy   42       Japan   14 2024-07-27      Scotland   31       Uruguay   19 2024-07-27      Brazil   47       Belgium   25 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)