World Rugby Rankings^TM, September 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 Fiji (8) +1 8 Australia (11) +3 9 Argentina (7) -2 10 Samoa (9) -1 11 Italy (10) -1 12 Wales (12) 13 Georgia (13) 14 Japan (14) 15 Portugal (15) 16 United States (23) +7 17 Zimbabwe (n/a) 18 Spain (16) -2 19 Tonga (17) -2 20 Uruguay (18) -2 21 Namibia (19) -2 22 Canada (20) -2 23 Netherlands (21) -2 24 Romania (22) -2 25 Chile (24) -1 26 Russia (25) -1 27 Hong Kong (26) -1 28 Germany (27) -1 29 Brazil (28) -1 30 Switzerland (29) -1 31 Belgium (30) -1 32 Poland (31) -1 33 Kenya (34) +1 34 Sweden (32) -2 35 Czech Republic (33) -2 36 Croatia (35) -1 37 Lithuania (36) -1 38 Paraguay (37) -1 39 Latvia (38) -1 40 Luxembourg (39) -1 41 Moldova (40) -1 42 Finland (41) -1 43 Ukraine (42) -1 44 Denmark (43) -1 45 Bulgaria (44) -1 46 Malta (45) -1 47 Israel (46) -1 48 Cyprus (47) -1 49 Austria (48) -1 50 Slovenia (49) -1 51 Hungary (50) -1 52 Turkey (51) -1 53 Serbia (52) -1 54 Andorra (53) -1 55 Bosnia (54) -1 56 Norway (55) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 582 (gross) 170.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 479.5 [82.4%] (gross) 151.7 [88.8%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-11-14      Zimbabwe   24       Brazil   22 2021-11-20      Namibia   41       Zimbabwe   10 2022-06-25      Zimbabwe   30       Netherlands   7 2022-07-06      Namibia   34       Zimbabwe   19 2024-07-24      Zimbabwe   32       Namibia   10 2024-08-10      South Africa   33       Australia   7 2024-08-10      Argentina   38       New Zealand   30 2024-08-17      New Zealand   42       Argentina   10 2024-08-17      South Africa   30       Australia   12 2024-08-18      Brazil   77       Paraguay   17 2024-08-22      Fiji   42       Samoa   16 2024-08-25      Japan   55       Canada   28 2024-08-29      Samoa   43       Tonga   17 2024-08-31      South Africa   31       New Zealand   27 2024-08-31      Australia   20       Argentina   19 2024-08-31      United States   28       Canada   15 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)