Historical past has been rewritten after the ultimate spherical of pool matches in Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025, with one group at an all-time excessive on this planet rankings and two sinking to new depths.
Fijiana’s emotional 28-25 win over Wales has led to the Pacific nation climbing to a better of thirteenth, on the again of a four-point achieve, while on the similar time demoting Wales to their worst-ever place of twelfth.
Rugby Europe champions Spain have additionally fallen to their lowest rating, a 29-21 defeat to Japan leading to them falling to 14th place. The win for the Sakura 15 lifted them to eleventh.
In any other case, there have been minimal modifications with the highest 10 staying unaltered. New Zealand’s 40-0 shut out of Ireland noticed their score improve by simply 0.02 factors, which was nowhere close to sufficient for them to enhance on third place.
World primary England, together with their nearest rivals, Canada, and fourth-place France, didn’t earn any extra factors for his or her respective wins over Australia, Scotland and South Africa.
The identical utilized to the USA and Italy, who comfortably beat sides ranked properly under them in Samoa and Brazil.
How the Prime 15 of the ladies’s rankings will have a look at midday on Monday:
- England 97.76
- Canada 90.13
- New Zealand 88.76
- France 85.82
- Eire 78.79
- Scotland 77.39
- Australia 75.46
- USA 72.90
- Italy 72.37
- South Africa 71.62
- Japan 69.72
- Wales 66.13
- Fiji 63.98
- Spain 62.42
- Samoa 59.72
