World rankings

Every team on one scale, computed from the full match history. Rating is the SG Rating — Scaled Glicko — running 1–99, with the underlying Glicko-2 value beside it. Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, or none recently, and the British & Irish Lions, a select side, are listed but not ranked. World Rugby's official position is shown for comparison and never feeds the model — how the two systems differ. Teams with no recent result against the main table are in a table of their own below: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.


1	South Africa	92	2512	±76	1
2	New Zealand	91	2476	±72	2
3	Ireland	87	2351	±77	3
4	France	86	2301	±74	4
5	England	84	2235	±72	5
6	Scotland	83	2193	±73	6
7	Australia	80	2101	±72	7
8	Argentina	78	2036	±71	8
9	Georgia	74	1899	±91	13+4
10	Wales	73	1868	±76	11+1
11	Japan	73	1846	±86	9-2
12	Fiji	73	1841	±87	10-2
13	Italy	72	1827	±76	12-1
14	Portugal	67	1638	±85	14
15	Spain	65	1566	±87	17+2
16	USA	64	1537	±86	15-1
17	Chile	64	1530	±97	16-1
18	Uruguay	63	1520	±87	18
19	Samoa	63	1512	±84	20+1
20	Tonga	62	1454	±88	19-1
21	Hong Kong China	57	1297	±103	—
22	Zimbabwe	57	1293	±95	25+3
23	Belgium	56	1266	±92	23
24	Romania	56	1265	±87	21-3
25	Canada	56	1255	±89	22-3
26	Namibia	55	1240	±95	26
27	Algeria	53	1142	±113	45+18
28	Mexico	51	1080	±101	37+9
29	Cayman Islands	50	1048	±103	42+13
30	Netherlands	50	1046	±101	27-3
31	Paraguay	50	1042	±99	31
32	Philippines	49	1032	±109	43+11
33	Poland	49	1014	±98	30-3
34	Kenya	49	999	±93	36+2
35	Switzerland	48	984	±97	28-7
36	Czechia	47	954	±95	29-7
37	Morocco	47	938	±100	39+2
38	Brazil	46	926	±97	33-5
39	Senegal	46	923	±99	47+8
40	United Arab Emirates	46	915	±105	40
41	Trinidad & Tobago	46	909	±113	52+11
42	Korea	46	906	±103	38-4
43	Tunisia	45	865	±101	48+5
44	Colombia	45	862	±108	41-3
45	Madagascar	44	827	±106	46+1
46	Sri Lanka	43	821	±100	49+3
47	Germany	42	763	±100	35-12
48	Sweden	42	760	±96	34-14
49	Uganda	41	733	±91	50+1
50	Kazakhstan	40	695	±110	59+9
51	Malaysia	39	680	±100	56+5
52	Bermuda	38	644	±106	69+17
53	Cote D'Ivoire	37	611	±99	68+15
54	Chinese Taipei	37	583	±97	62+8
55	Malta	34	507	±108	44-11
56	Zambia	34	495	±114	66+10
57	Ukraine	34	491	±100	51-6
58	Guyana	34	481	±107	73+15
59	Croatia	32	436	±96	53-6
60	Singapore	32	432	±99	72+12
61	Lithuania	32	424	±94	55-6
62	Thailand	32	414	±104	71+9
63	Botswana	31	382	±113	78+15
64	Bahamas	30	350	±123	96+32
65	Luxembourg	30	343	±101	54-11
66	Denmark	27	232	±101	58-8
67	Latvia	26	212	±102	65-2
68	Austria	26	194	±97	64-4
69	Moldova	25	184	±98	57-12
70	Venezuela	25	181	±112	75+5
71	Israel	24	154	±102	60-11
72	Serbia	23	100	±97	70-2
73	Bulgaria	19	-29	±98	76+3
74	Finland	19	-52	±100	77+3
75	Andorra	17	-118	±98	80+5
76	Slovenia	15	-163	±105	83+7
77	Peru	13	-228	±118	79+2
78	Turkey	13	-231	±113	84+6
79	Hungary	13	-251	±98	86+7
80	Bosnia & Herzegovina	8	-423	±101	93+13
81	Norway	1	-651	±113	101+20

Rating over time

SG Ratings at each month's end, over the last 2 years. A flat stretch is a team that did not play: a Glicko rating moves on results, not on the calendar.

Provisional — 18 teams

Too few matches on record to place. The rating is real, but it could move a long way on one result.


—	Qatar	—	882	±229	98
—	Jamaica	—	875	±142	63
—	Barbados	—	783	±128	61
—	Ghana	—	437	±143	81
—	Burkina Faso	—	325	±173	87
—	Iran	—	321	±135	90
—	Nigeria	—	304	±140	74
—	Cameroon	—	209	±137	106
—	St Vincent and the Grenadines	—	180	±165	82
—	India	—	156	±138	85
—	Guam	—	143	±131	88
—	Lesotho	—	-146	±234	89
—	Pakistan	—	-229	±167	102
—	St Lucia	—	-333	±161	95
—	Eswatini	—	-627	±169	97
—	Laos	—	-792	±280	105
—	Costa Rica	—	-830	±333	91
—	Nepal	—	-1405	±350	103

Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu — 3 teams

Too few matches on record to rank even among themselves. No recent result connects these teams to the table above or to the other tables here, so their ratings sit on a scale of their own and an order holds only inside this table. The 1–99 rating is drawn from the main table's range, so it is not shown. It is not a judgement about how good they are.


—	Papua New Guinea	779	±139	94
—	Solomon Islands	305	±164	109
—	Vanuatu	-377	±235	113

No recent matches — 12 teams

No match on record in the last 4 years, so the rating describes each side as it last played and is kept for the record rather than ranked beside sides playing now.


—	Russia	—	1137	±93	32
—	Cook Islands	—	956	±147	67
—	Niue Island	—	378	±160	107
—	American Samoa	—	206	±317	114
—	Mauritius	—	138	±164	100
—	China	—	121	±110	92
—	Uzbekistan	—	-119	±170	99
—	Monaco	—	-445	±154	111
—	Greece	—	-524	±124	112
—	Rwanda	—	-687	±281	104
—	Indonesia	—	-854	±151	110
—	Burundi	—	-861	±283	108

Select sides — 1 team

Picked from unions already on this table, so ranking them beside those unions would count the same players twice. The rating is kept because the sides they play are rated on those matches.


—	British & Irish Lions	—	2236	±101	—