IRL Women's World Rankings

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Official rankings as of November 2025
Rank	Change	Team	Pts %
1		Australia	100
2		New Zealand	64
3		England	39
4		France	24
5	7	Samoa	20
6	1	Papua New Guinea	18
7	1	Wales	18
8		Ireland	18
9		Cook Islands	14
10	6	Fiji	12
11	1	Canada	12
12	5	Nigeria	12
13	6	Greece	12
14	1	Tonga	11
15	2	Netherlands	11
16	5	United States	10
17	3	Serbia	7
18		Kenya	6
19		Scotland	4
20	2	Italy	3
21	3	Ghana	3
22	2	Philippines	3
23	4	Brazil	3
24	3	Uganda	3
25	2	Jamaica	2
26		Turkey	1
27		Lebanon	1
258	3	Malta	1
Complete rankings at www.internationalrugbyleague.com

The IRL Women's World Rankings are the ranking system for women's national teams in the sport of rugby league football. ^[1] The rankings were first published in December 2017. ^{[2] [3]}

Current calculation method

Match status

A weighting system has been implemented by the IRL to give more points to teams if they gain a victory over a major team in a major tournament, with friendlies ranked with considerably fewer points than any World Cup finals match or the final of Cups such as the European, Mediterranean and Pacific Cups.

Opponent strength

The IRL has organized the ranking so that a win against a very highly ranked opponent is a considerably greater achievement than a win against a low-rated opponent, so the strength of the opposing team is a factor.

Assessment period

All matches played over the last three years are included in the calculation of the rankings, but there is a weighting system implemented to put more emphasis on recent results.

Historical rankings

Team	Dec 2017	Jul 2018	Dec 2018	Jul 2019	Nov 2019	Jun 2020	Dec 2021	Jul 2022	Dec 2022	Jun 2023	Dec 2023	Jun 2024	Dec 2024	Jun 2025	Nov 2025
Argentina	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	22 ()	22	28 (6)	–	–	–	–
Australia	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Brazil	–	–	–	11 ()	13 (2)	13	15 (2)	17 (2)	10 (7)	10	11 (1)	12 (1)	20 (8)	19 (1)	23 (4)
Canada	4	4	4	4	5 (1)	5	6 (1)	6	7 (1)	7	7	8 (1)	9 (1)	10 (1)	11 (1)
Cook Islands	5	5	5	5	7 (2)	7	12 (5)	11 (1)	6 (5)	6	6	6	10 (4)	9 (1)	9
England	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Fiji	–	–	–	9 ()	10 (1)	10	9 (1)	12 (3)	18 (6)	19 (1)	21 (2)	26 (5)	16 (10)	16	10 (6)
France	7	7	7	7	6 (1)	6	5 (1)	5	5	4 (1)	5 (1)	4 (1)	4	4	4
Ghana	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	25 ()	23 (2)	24 (1)	24	21 (3)
Greece	–	–	–	–	–	14 ()	16 (2)	18 (2)	11 (7)	11	10 (1)	9 (1)	8 (1)	7 (1)	13 (6)
Ireland	–	–	–	–	–	–	14 ()	14	8 (6)	8	9 (1)	10 (1)	7 (3)	8 (1)	8
Italy	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	13 (5)	14 (1)	13 (1)	15 (2)	19 (4)	21 (2)	22 (1)	20 (2)
Jamaica	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	22 ()	24 (2)	23 (1)	23	25 (2)
Kenya	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	24 ()	20 (4)	18 (2)	18	18
Lebanon	9	9	9	14 (5)	14	15 (1)	17 (2)	19 (2)	21 (2)	21	27 (6)	27	27	27	27
Malta	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	16 ()	17 (1)	19 (2)	21 (2)	25 (4)	25	28 (3)
Netherlands	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	18 ()	13 (5)	13	13	15 (2)
New Zealand	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Nigeria	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23 ()	18 (5)	17 (1)	17	12 (5)
Papua New Guinea	6	6	6	6	4 (2)	4	4	4	4	5 (1)	4 (1)	5 (1)	5	5	6 (1)
Philippines	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	19 ()	14 (5)	14	15 (1)	19 (4)	20 (1)	22 (2)
Samoa	–	–	–	10 ()	12 (2)	12	11 (1)	16 (5)	20 (4)	20	20	25 (5)	11 (14)	12 (1)	5 (7)
Scotland	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	19 ()
Serbia	–	–	–	13 ()	9 (4)	9	7 (2)	8 (1)	12 (4)	12	12	11 (1)	12 (1)	14 (2)	17 (3)
Tonga	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10 ()	15 (5)	16 (1)	13 (3)	14 (1)	15 (1)	15	14 (1)
Turkey	–	–	–	12 ()	11 (1)	11	10 (1)	9 (1)	13 (4)	15 (2)	17 (2)	17	26 (9)	26	26
Uganda	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	26 ()	22 (4)	22	21 (1)	24 (3)
United States	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15 ()	17 (2)	18 (1)	16 (2)	16	14 (2)	11 (3)	16 (5)
Wales	–	–	–	–	–	–	13 ()	7 (6)	9 (2)	9	8 (1)	7 (1)	6 (1)	6	7 (1)
References:	[4]	[5]	[6]	[7]	[8]	[9]	[10] [11]	[12] [13]	[14]	[15]	[16] [17]	[18] [19]	[20] [21]	[22] [23]	[24] [25]

See also

• Sports portal

• International Rugby League
• RLIF Awards
• IRL Men's World Rankings
• IRL Wheelchair World Rankings

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