World Rugby Rankings

This article is about the rugby union rankings. For the rugby league rankings, see IRL World Rankings.
Men's World Rugby Rankings
Top 30 as of 18 November 2024[1]
Rank Change[i] Team Points
1 Steady  South Africa 092.78
2 Increase1  Ireland 090.78
3 Decrease1  New Zealand 090.09
4 Steady  France 088.08
5 Steady  Argentina 085.40
6 Steady  Scotland 082.70
7 Steady  England 082.31
8 Steady  Australia 082.17
9 Steady  Fiji 080.07
10 Steady  Italy 078.92
11 Steady  Wales 074.01
12 Steady  Georgia 073.85
13 Increase1  Japan 072.95
14 Decrease1  Samoa 072.68
15 Increase1  United States 068.90
16 Decrease1  Portugal 068.82
17 Steady  Spain 067.10
18 Increase1  Uruguay 065.94
19 Decrease1  Tonga 065.46
20 Steady  Romania 064.13
21 Steady  Chile 061.72
22 Steady  Hong Kong 059.49
23 Steady  Canada 059.18
24 Increase3  Netherlands 058.56
25 Decrease1  Russia 058.06
26 Decrease1  Namibia 057.87
27 Increase2  Zimbabwe 057.16
28 Decrease2  Brazil 056.53
29 Decrease1  Belgium 056.51
30 Steady   Switzerland 056.04
  1. ^ Change from the previous week
Source: World Rugby[1]
Graph updated to 11 November 2024
This article is about the men's rankings. For the women's rankings, see World Rugby Women's World Rankings.

The World Rugby Rankings is a ranking system for national teams in rugby union, managed by World Rugby, the sport's governing body. There are separate men's and women's rankings. The teams of World Rugby's member nations are ranked based on their game results, with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A point system is used, with points being awarded on the basis of the results of World Rugby-recognized international matches. Rankings are based on the team's performance, with more recent results and more significant matches being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team. The men's ranking system was introduced the month before the 2003 Rugby World Cup, with the first new rankings issued on 8 September 2003, when they were called the "IRB Rankings".[2]

  1. ^ a b "Men's World Rankings". World Rugby. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  2. ^ "England top IRB rankings, Ireland third". Times. 2003-09-09. Retrieved 2008-11-23.