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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.
Men's Rugby World Cup: Top 12 teams from previous World Cup (the top 3 in each group) plus 8 nations from regional qualifying tournaments. 1987: 2023: Quadrennial Women's Rugby World Cup: 12 top national women's teams 1991: 2021: Quadrennial [1] Men’s Six Nations Championship: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales: 1883: 2023: Annually
The World Rugby Women's World Rankings is a ranking system for women's national teams in rugby union, managed by World Rugby, the sport's governing body. [2] Led by England as of June 2023, [3] they attempt to compare the strength of at any given time.
Where do the 20 competing nations sit ahead of the tournament?
How has the first weekend of fixtures affected our rankings?
Ireland, France, South Africa and New Zealand shape as the tournament favourites – but how far down our rankings are England and Wales after a difficult 2023 so far?
World Rugby publishes and maintains the World Rugby Rankings of the men's national rugby union teams (and more recently also for women's teams [56]). The concept was launched in October 2003, at the start of that year's world cup in Australia. The rankings are calculated using a Points Exchange system, whereby nations take points off each other ...
World Ranking [a] Trophy/Other comp. Ref. Home Away 4 February Scotland: Twickenham Stadium, London 23 29 2023 Six Nations Championship: Loss Scotland: Owen Farrell 6th Calcutta Cup [66] [67] 12 February Italy: Twickenham Stadium, London 31 14 Win England: 6th — [68] [69] 25 February Wales: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff 10 20 Win England: 6th ...