{"id":94142,"date":"2025-08-25T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94142\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:38:09","slug":"scotland-win-leads-to-big-swing-in-world-rugby-womens-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/94142\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland win leads to big swing in World Rugby Women&#8217;s Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Only one place separated Scotland from Wales in the World Rugby Women\u2019s Rankings heading into Women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> 2025, but the picture has changed significantly following the result of Saturday\u2019s match between the teams in Salford.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s crushing 38-8 win over their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/six-nations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six Nations<\/a> rivals \u2013 their largest in the 32-year history of the fixture \u2013 will result in them jumping two places in the rankings to sixth when they are officially updated at noon on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Easson\u2019s side have leapfrogged Australia and Italy to move to within one place of their all-time best ranking of fifth, while Wales are now one off their worst-ever ranking of 11th, having been ninth before the start of play.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018This Energy Never Stops\u2019 \u2013 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>\u2018This Energy Never Stops\u2019 \u2013 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup 2025<\/p>\n<p>With 2.05 points won by Scotland and an identical amount lost by Wales, a gap of 7.26 points now exists between the teams in terms of their respective ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, there has been precious little movement in the rankings after a set of results that was entirely predictable.<\/p>\n<p>None of the higher-ranked teams lost to underdogs, and, as such, the status quo remains very much the same, with the top five of England, Canada, New Zealand, France and Ireland unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>However, the USA have actually moved up a place despite losing 69-7 to hosts England in the tournament\u2019s curtain raiser in Sunderland on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>While the USA\u2019s rating of 72.05 remained unaffected by the defeat, Wales\u2019 has dropped to 70.13 points, placing them ninth and 10th respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Scotland vs Wales match was not the only match where rating points were won or lost. France made slight gains for their 24-0 win over Italy, but nowhere near enough to improve on their current standing of fourth, while Ireland\u2019s reward for beating Japan 42-14 was negligible.<\/p>\n<p>Updated World Rugby Women\u2019s Rankings*<\/p>\n<p>England \u2013 97.76Canada \u2013 90.13New Zealand \u2013 88.74France \u2013 85.82Ireland \u2013 78.82Scotland \u2013 77.39Australia \u2013 76.31Italy \u2013 75.96USA \u2013 72.05Wales \u2013 70.13<\/p>\n<p>*as of noon on Monday, 25 August 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only one place separated Scotland from Wales in the World Rugby Women\u2019s Rankings heading into Women\u2019s Rugby World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-94142","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\/94142","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=94142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}