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  2. Mar 9, 2020 · Current World Rugby Rankings (In brackets are the points earned by each team) The World Rugby Rankings are updated at 12 noon (UK & Ireland time) every Monday. Here are the latest rankings… 1. South Africa (94.19) 2. New Zealand (92.11) 3. England (88.41) 4. Ireland (84.91)

    • National Teams – Band Classification
    • Multinational Teams
    • Defunct National Sides
    • Women's Rugby

    Starting in 2008, in addition to the existing tier system, the IRB introduced a four-band system of classification in which unions are classified based on "their development status and record on the international stage". The new structure is:

    The British and Irish Lions.
    Established in 1950, East Africa conducted seven tours between 1954 and 1982 and played against incoming international, representative and club touring sides including twice against the British Lio...
    A similar development in 2004 has been the Pacific Islanders team.
    The South American Jaguars were a combination team who played South Africa during the early 1980s.

    Various national sides have ceased to exist for political reasons. In the case of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, there is more than one successor team. In the case of Catalonia, the Spanish Civil Warand Franco's crackdown put an end to it, and in the case of East and West Germany, reunification led to their amalgamation into a sin...

    Defunct women's national sides

    1. Catalonia 2. Great Britain 3. Soviet Union

    Invitation sides

    1. Nomads

  3. Since the inaugural tournament in 1987, Rugby World Cups have been held in Europe, North America, Africa, Oceania and most recently in Asia. The men’s tournament in Japan in 2019 was viewed by 857 million people around the world.

  4. New Zealand have been the most consistently ranked #1 team since the introduction of the world rankings in 2003, having held the #1 ranking for most of the time during this period. South Africa is second, with Ireland, England, Wales and France making up the remainder.

  5. France has a March 2022 number two ranking. They won 54% of the 776 test matches they have ever played by 2022, and they compete in the World Cup and Six Nation tournaments. The men’s team won the March 20, 2022, Six Nation Championship match against England with a final score of 25-13. New Zealand. New Zealand’s March 2022 ranking is three.

  6. The Six Nations Championship is an annual international men's competition between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. Previously called the Home Nations Championship and the Five Nations Championship, the tournament has been running since 1883. Men's Women's U20s.

  7. Will the World Rugby Men’s Rankings powered by Capgemini get shaken up again? We run through all the permutations ahead of the second round of both the 2024 Guinness Men’s Six Nations and the Rugby Europe Championship.

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