Wales have moved up in World Rugby’s rankings, despite being hammered by South Africa 43-0 in Durban.<\/p>\n
Steve Tandy’s side ended their summer being kept off the scoreboard by the Springboks<\/a>, bringing the first part of the Nations Championship campaign to a disappointing denouement. However, despite another chastening defeat to the world champions, Wales actually managed to rise up the world rankings.<\/p>\n Having started the weekend in 12th, they will now sit in 11th when the rankings are officially updated on Monday.<\/p>\n The rise is down to Italy plummeting following their 57-10 thrashing against Australia in Perth.<\/p>\n JOIN OUR WALES RUGBY FACEBOOK PAGE Latest news, analysis and much more<\/a><\/p>\n The Azzurri fell from 10th to 12th – with successive defeats to Japan and New Zealand undoing much of the good work from this year’s Six Nations<\/a>, when they beat Scotland and England.<\/p>\n Having lost ranking points Down Under, Italy now fall to their lowest ranking since the 2023 World Cup.<\/p>\n Wales, who didn’t lose any ranking points in the defeat to South Africa, aren’t the only team to benefit from Italy’s fall.<\/p>\n Japan moved up from 11th to 10th, with the Brave Blossoms reaching the top 10 for the first time in almost three years.<\/p>\n There’s no change in the top 10 after this weekend’s results, although South Africa’s lead at the top of the rankings was cut slightly following New Zealand’s win over Ireland.<\/p>\n Wales still remain adrift of the world’s top eight, despite former captain Sam Warburton admitting on Saturday that should be their target in the short-term.<\/p>\n They remain 5.23 points behind eighth-placed Australia.<\/p>\n World Rankings<\/p>\n 1. South Africa \u2013 93.96 (-)<\/p>\n 2. New Zealand \u2013 92.28 (-)<\/p>\n 3. Ireland \u2013 88.08 (-)<\/p>\n 4. France \u2013 87.43 (-)<\/p>\n 5. England \u2013 85.68 (-)<\/p>\n 6. Scotland \u2013 84.78 (-)<\/p>\n 7. Argentina \u2013 83.13 (-)<\/p>\n 8. Australia \u2013 81.61 (-)<\/p>\n 9. Fiji \u2013 78.00 (-)<\/p>\n 10. Japan \u2013 76.42 (+1)<\/p>\n 11. Wales \u2013 76.38 (+1)<\/p>\n 12. Italy \u2013 76.30 (-2)<\/p>\n 13. Georgia \u2013 73.94 (-)<\/p>\n 14. USA \u2013 70.22 (-)<\/p>\n 15. Portugal \u2013 69.39 (-)<\/p>\n 16. Chile \u2013 66.94 (+2)<\/p>\n 17. Spain \u2013 66.83 (-1)<\/p>\n 18. Uruguay \u2013 65.75 (-1)<\/p>\n 19. Tonga \u2013 65.14 (+1)<\/p>\n 20. Samoa \u2013 64.73 (-)<\/p>\n 21. Romania \u2013 62.45 (+1)<\/p>\n 22. Belgium \u2013 61.03 (+1)<\/p>\n 23. Hong Kong China \u2013 60.74 (+1)<\/p>\n 24. Canada \u2013 60.37 (-1)<\/p>\n 25. Zimbabwe \u2013 57.68 (-)<\/p>\n Follow all of our channels to ensure you stay up to date with the latest Welsh rugby news. Sign up to our free daily newsletter here<\/a> and our WhatsApp channel here<\/a> for all the breaking news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales have moved up in World Rugby’s rankings, despite being hammered by South Africa 43-0 in Durban. Steve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55,9015],"class_list":["post-702860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales-rugby-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}