World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 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 Switzerland (28) 29 Belgium (29) 30 Poland (30) 31 Sweden (31) 32 Czech Republic (32) 33 Croatia (33) 34 Kenya (35) +1 35 Brazil (36) +1 36 Lithuania (34) -2 37 Ukraine (37) 38 Latvia (38) 39 Luxembourg (41) +2 40 Finland (42) +2 41 Denmark (45) +4 42 Bulgaria (39) -3 43 Malta (40) -3 44 Israel (43) -1 45 Cyprus (44) -1 46 Austria (n/a) 47 Slovenia (47) 48 Hungary (48) 49 Turkey (52) +3 50 Serbia (46) -4 51 Bosnia (49) -2 52 Andorra (50) -2 53 Norway (51) -2 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 518 (gross) 165.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 430.5 [83.1%] (gross) 147.3 [89.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2021-10-09      Austria   34       Slovenia   15 2023-09-30      Hungary   53       Austria   10 2023-11-04      Luxembourg   27       Austria   14 2024-04-06      Sweden   36       Ukraine   24 2024-04-06      Luxembourg   18       Hungary   15 2024-04-06      Austria   57       Bosnia   17 2024-04-13      Switzerland   68       Ukraine   0 2024-04-13      Denmark   41       Norway   5 2024-04-13      Austria   31       Slovenia   14 2024-04-13      Turkey   31       Serbia   22 2024-04-20      Latvia   29       Denmark   25 2024-04-20      Hungary   48       Bosnia   13 2024-04-20      Bulgaria   30       Serbia   7 2024-04-20      Luxembourg   84       Slovenia   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)