World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 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 (9) +2 8 Italy (11) +3 9 Australia (8) -1 10 Wales (12) +2 11 Fiji (7) -4 12 Georgia (13) +1 13 Japan (14) +1 14 Samoa (10) -4 15 Portugal (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Zimbabwe (17) 18 Spain (18) 19 Tonga (19) 20 Uruguay (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Canada (22) 23 Romania (24) +1 24 Chile (25) +1 25 Russia (26) +1 26 Netherlands (23) -3 27 Hong Kong (27) 28 Germany (28) 29 Brazil (29) 30 Belgium (31) +1 31 Switzerland (30) -1 32 Poland (32) 33 Kenya (33) 34 Sweden (34) 35 Czech Republic (35) 36 Croatia (36) 37 Lithuania (37) 38 Paraguay (38) 39 Finland (42) +3 40 Ukraine (43) +3 41 Latvia (39) -2 42 Luxembourg (40) -2 43 Moldova (41) -2 44 Austria (49) +5 45 Denmark (44) -1 46 Bulgaria (45) -1 47 Malta (46) -1 48 Israel (47) -1 49 Cyprus (48) -1 50 Slovenia (50) 51 Hungary (51) 52 Turkey (52) 53 Serbia (53) 54 Andorra (54) 55 Bosnia (55) 56 Norway (56) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 597 (gross) 172.8 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 493.5 [82.7%] (gross) 152.9 [88.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2024-09-06      Fiji   50       Tonga   19 2024-09-07      Japan   41       United States   24 2024-09-07      South Africa   18       New Zealand   12 2024-09-07      Argentina   67       Australia   27 2024-09-14      Tonga   30       Canada   17 2024-09-14      Fiji   22       United States   3 2024-09-15      Japan   49       Samoa   27 2024-09-20      Austria   39       Hungary   12 2024-09-21      New Zealand   31       Australia   28 2024-09-21      Samoa   18       United States   13 2024-09-21      Fiji   41       Japan   17 2024-09-21      Argentina   29       South Africa   28 2024-09-27      Chile   64       Paraguay   0 2024-09-28      New Zealand   33       Australia   13 2024-09-28      South Africa   48       Argentina   7 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)