{"id":138108,"date":"2025-09-12T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138108\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:42:03","slug":"world-rugby-rankings-before-round-4-of-the-rugby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138108\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby Rankings Before Round 4 Of The Rugby Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florugby.com\/collections\/10710787-the-rugby-championship\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Rugby Championship<\/a> continued to shape the international rugby landscape over the weekend, with results in Aukland and Townsville resonating across the global rankings.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand, fresh off a tense 24-17 win over South Africa at Eden Park in Round 3, carry their momentum into Sky Stadium, where the All Blacks face the Springboks again. The match was another reminder of why this rivalry dominates world rugby headlines. The All Blacks, led by captain Ardie Savea in his 100th Test, continued to look formidable under coach Scott Robertson as they remain the No. 1 team in the world.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa, the defending world champions, slipped to third after their Eden Park defeat and enter the Wellington clash under pressure to respond. The Springboks\u2019 loss to Australia in Johannesburg earlier in the tournament still lingers, leaving them needing consistency to keep pace in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland, idle during the Rugby Championship, benefitted from South Africa\u2019s struggles to hold the No. 2 position, just ahead of the Springboks by fractions of a point. France and England rounded out the top five, while Fiji and Italy continue to push upward just outside the first tier.<\/p>\n<p>World Rugby Rankings Before The Rugby Championship Round 4New Zealand \u2013 91.35Ireland \u2013 89.83South Africa \u2013 89.38France \u2013 87.82England \u2013 87.64Australia \u2013 85.40Argentina \u2013 82.84Scotland \u2013 81.57Fiji \u2013 80.86Italy \u2013 77.77Georgia \u2013 74.69Wales \u2013 74.05Japan \u2013 73.40Samoa \u2013 70.72Spain \u2013 69.12Tonga \u2013 66.87Uruguay \u2013 66.59Portugal \u2013 66.44USA \u2013 65.57Chile \u2013 64.76Romania \u2013 62.67Belgium \u2013 61.20Hong Kong China \u2013 59.98Canada \u2013 59.52Zimbabwe \u2013 58.80How To Watch Rugby Matches In The United States On FloRugby<\/p>\n<p>Professional club rugby in Europe all streams on FloRugby and the FloSports app in the United States. FloRugby and FloSports also are the U.S. home to:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FloRugby also is home to match archives and match replays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Join The Rugby Conversation On FloRugby Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rugby Championship continued to shape the international rugby landscape over the weekend, with results in Aukland and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-138108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}