{"id":244374,"date":"2025-10-27T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244374\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:41:08","slug":"world-rugby-rankings-where-things-stand-before-the-autumn-nations-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/244374\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby Rankings: Where Things Stand Before The Autumn Nations Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an exciting end to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.florugby.com\/articles\/14594337-springboks-defeat-argentina-29-27-at-twickenham-to-win-rugby-championship\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Rugby Championship 2025<\/a> series earlier this fall, international play is about to pick back up in earnest as fans look towards the first weekend of November for the kick off of the Autumn Nations Series.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Nov. 1 will bring more than six international matches including England vs Australia, South Africa vs Japan, and Ireland vs New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latter will be played at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL in front of US rugby fans from all over the nation as they get a look at two of the best rugby teams in the world in the flesh.<\/p>\n<p>See how the World Rugby Rankings stand before international play gets going again on Nov. 1 below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florugby.com\/events\/14657119-2025-manu-samoa-vs-paraguay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>2025 Manu Samoa vs Paraguay<\/p>\n<p><\/a>World Rugby Rankings: Where Things Stand Before Autumn Nations (Oct. 27)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/rankings\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">See the official rankings on World.Rugby here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa 92.20New Zealand 90.02Ireland 89.83France 87.82England 87.64Argentina 83.82Australia 83.30Scotland 81.57Fiji 81.16Italy 77.77Georgia 74.69Wales 74.05Japan 73.25Spain 69.12USA 67.40Samoa 66.94Chile 66.72Tonga 66.66Uruguay 66.59Portugal 66.44How The Rugby World\u00a0Rankings Work<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/rankings\/explanation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full explanation on World.Rugby here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calculation<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s and Women&#8217;s World Rugby Rankings are calculated using a &#8216;Points Exchange&#8217; system, where sides gain or lose points based on the match result. Other criteria include the relative strength of each team, the margin of victory, and an allowance for home advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Member Unions<\/p>\n<p>All member countries have a rating, typically between 0 and 100. The top side in the world will normally have a rating above 90. Any match that is not a full international between two member countries does not count at all.<\/p>\n<p>RWC Ranking<\/p>\n<p>Points are doubled during the World Cup Finals to recognise the importance of this event, but all other international matches, friendly or competitive, are treated the same across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn Nations Series Rugby Schedule 2025Week 1 &#8211; November 1England vs AustraliaSouth Africa vs JapanScotland vs USAIreland vs New ZealandWeek 2 &#8211; November 8-9Ireland vs JapanScotland vs New ZealandEngland vs FijiItaly vs AustraliaFrance vs South AfricaWales vs ArgentinaWeek 3 &#8211; November 15-16Italy vs South AfricaEngland vs New ZealandWales vs JapanFrance vs FijiIreland vs AustraliaScotland vs ArgentinaWeek 4 &#8211; November 22-23Wales vs New ZealandIreland vs South AfricaFrance vs AustraliaItaly vs ChileScotland vs TongaEngland vs ArgentinaWeek 5 &#8211; November 29How 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":"After an exciting end to The Rugby Championship 2025 series earlier this fall, international play is about to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-244374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244374","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=244374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}