World Rugby Rankings

Men's World Rugby Rankings

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Top 30 as of 26 August 2024^[1]

Rank	Change*	Team	Points
1		South Africa	093.11
2		Ireland	092.12
3		New Zealand	088.71
4		France	086.96
5		England	085.40
6		Argentina	083.30
7		Scotland	082.82
8		Italy	079.98
9		Australia	078.96
10		Fiji	077.92
11		Wales	076.04
12		Georgia	074.10
13		Samoa	073.17
14		Japan	072.12
15		Portugal	070.61
16		Tonga	068.66
17		Uruguay	067.39
18		Spain	066.29
19		United States	066.01
20		Romania	062.62
21		Canada	061.39
22		Chile	061.39
23		Hong Kong	060.40
24		Russia	058.06
25		Namibia	057.87
26		Switzerland	057.44
27		Netherlands	057.29
28		Zimbabwe	056.03
29		Brazil	055.83
30		Belgium	055.11

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]