{"id":273776,"date":"2025-11-09T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273776\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:42:09","slug":"updated-world-rankings-show-big-divide-ahead-of-rugby-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/273776\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated world rankings show big divide ahead of Rugby World Cup draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After this weekend\u2019s breathless set of Quilter Nations Series matches, it will now take something special from the sides outside of the top six in the rankings to break into Band 1 for the Rugby World Cup<\/a> 2027 draw on 3 December.<\/p>\n

The World Rugby Rankings will show a widening gap between those teams and the chasing pack when they are officially updated at noon on Monday.<\/p>\n

Argentina\u2019s record 52-28 win over Wales<\/a> at the Principality Stadium has cemented their place in sixth, with their nearest challengers Australia<\/a> even further off the pace.<\/p>\n

Los Pumas\u2019 victory combined with the Wallabies\u2019 loss to Italy<\/a> in Udine sees the sides separated by 2.61 points, while Scotland, who are eighth, are nearly half a point further in arrears.<\/p>\n

As Australia have the uneviable task of travelling to Ireland<\/a> and France<\/a> in their remaining two November fixtures, Scotland<\/a> probably have the better chance of stealing their way into the top six at Argentina\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n

Scotland are at home to the Pumas<\/a> next weekend in a game that could see a big momentum shift towards Gregor Townsend\u2019s team. Even then, though, the points reward might not be enough, as Scotland won\u2019t get any points if they beat Tonga<\/a> in their fourth and final November fixture to improve their rating further, while Argentina<\/a> head to Allianz Stadium to take on England.<\/p>\n

At the top, South Africa\u2019s lead over the All Blacks<\/a> has increased to 1.71 points, with their epic 14-man win over France in Paris worth half a point more than the All Blacks\u2019 hard-fought 25-17 victory against Scotland.<\/p>\n

Ireland and England<\/a> remain in third and fourth, after wins over Japan<\/a> and Fiji, and France are still fifth.<\/p>\n

Wales are still 12th, the last of the places in Band 2, but their position is under threat from Japan, who they meet in another winner-takes-all contest in Cardiff next weekend.<\/p>\n

With 0.48 points knocked off their rating for Sunday\u2019s defeat at the hands of Argentina, they are now just 0.32 points above Brave Blossoms in 13th.<\/p>\n

Outside of the race to get into Band 1, Uruguay<\/a> were the biggest movers in the rankings, with Los Teros projected to climb four places to 15th as a result of their 26-8 victory against Portugal.<\/p>\n

How the updated World Rugby Rankings will look on Monday:<\/p>\n

1 South Africa<\/a> 93.06
2 New Zealand<\/a> 91.35
3 Ireland 88.85
4 England 88.06
5 France 86.95
6 Argentina 84.30
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7 Australia 81.69
8 Scotland 81.21
9 Fiji<\/a> 81.15
10 Italy 78.98
11 Georgia<\/a> 73.69
12 Wales 73.57
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13 Japan 73.25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After this weekend\u2019s breathless set of Quilter Nations Series matches, it will now take something special from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-273776","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\/273776","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=273776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}