Template:World Rugby Rankings

Men's World Rugby Rankings

Top 30 as of 4 May 2026

Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		South Africa	093.94
2		New Zealand	090.33
3		Ireland	089.07
4		France	087.46
5		Argentina	084.97
6		England	083.91
7		Scotland	082.90
8		Australia	081.53
9		Fiji	081.14
10		Italy	079.64
11		Wales	075.07
12		Japan	074.09
13		Georgia	071.97
14		Portugal	069.64
15		Uruguay	069.19
16		United States	068.26
17		Spain	067.51
18		Chile	066.72
19		Tonga	066.66
20		Samoa	066.43
21		Belgium	061.03
22		Romania	060.67
23		Hong Kong	059.61
24		Zimbabwe	058.80
25		Canada	058.75
26		Namibia	056.96
27		Netherlands	056.44
28		Switzerland	055.47
29		Czech Republic	054.78
30		Poland	054.54

{{{1}}}'s historical rankings

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Source: World Rugby
Graph updated to 16 February 2026

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Usage

This template is meant to help quickly update the World Rugby Rankings for all men's national rugby union teams of World Rugby, displayed in the infobox on each national team article. When given a country code, the template outputs the WBSC World Ranking of a country, along with a movement indicator (increase, decrease, or steady), and by how many spots a country moves, if applicable. The date of the rankings is also listed, along with a reference to the rankings from WBSC's website.

If desired, the World Rugby ranking reference can be used elsewhere in the article using the name "World Rugby Rankings" (i.e. <ref name="World Rugby Rankings"/>).

Parameters

• 1 (unnamed): WBSC country code
• mdy: Switches dates to month-day-year format

Example

An example of the code used to display the ranking of Argentina:

{{World Rugby Rankings|Argentina}}

This code produces the following:

Men's World Rugby Rankings

Top 30 as of 4 May 2026

Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		South Africa	093.94
2		New Zealand	090.33
3		Ireland	089.07
4		France	087.46
5		Argentina	084.97
6		England	083.91
7		Scotland	082.90
8		Australia	081.53
9		Fiji	081.14
10		Italy	079.64
11		Wales	075.07
12		Japan	074.09
13		Georgia	071.97
14		Portugal	069.64
15		Uruguay	069.19
16		United States	068.26
17		Spain	067.51
18		Chile	066.72
19		Tonga	066.66
20		Samoa	066.43
21		Belgium	061.03
22		Romania	060.67
23		Hong Kong	059.61
24		Zimbabwe	058.80
25		Canada	058.75
26		Namibia	056.96
27		Netherlands	056.44
28		Switzerland	055.47
29		Czech Republic	054.78
30		Poland	054.54

Source: World Rugby
Graph updated to 16 February 2026

Updating

The main template page is not meant to be updated. The rankings should be updated at Module:SportsRankings/data/World Rugby Rankings. To update the template, first update the day and month (along with the year if necessary) to the date of the current World Rugby Rankings. Then add a country's new position, along with how many spots they moved (e.g. 2 for increase of two positions, 0 for no movement, -5 for decrease of two positions).

All positions can be quickly updated using a spreadsheet. For example, after copying the entire table from World Rugby's ranking list, the following formula can be used in an external spreadsheet to generate the code necessary to update the data page (given the WBSC rankings begin in cell A1):

="| {{subst:str sub old|"&B1&"|0|3}} = "&A1&" | {{subst:str sub old|"&B1&"|0|3}}_move = "&E1

The code generated can be saved on the data page, and the rankings will be updated. Once the cache of a national team page is purged, the updated ranking will be displayed.

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