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Current World Rankings

Based on matches up to 1st March 2025.

Ranking	Team	Played	Weighted	Points	Rating
1	Australia	44	26	5,308	204
2	New Zealand	45	26	5,072	195
3	Jamaica	41	24	4,602	192
4	England	52	33	6,089	185
5	South Africa	50	33	5,365	163
6	Wales	31	19	2,353	124
7	Uganda	40	25	3,040	122
8	Malawi	43	28	3,365	120
9	Tonga	40	25	2,934	117
10	Scotland	30	20	2,028	101
11	Trinidad & Tobago	25	13	1,222	94
12	Northern Ireland	25	19	1,706	90
13	Zimbabwe	38	25	2,223	89
14	Samoa	32	21	1,765	84
15	Zambia	22	13	1,000	77
16	Fiji	44	27	2,026	75
17	St Vincent & Grenadines	24	15	1,119	75
18	Namibia	26	18	1,326	74
19	Barbados	35	19	1,375	72
20	Botswana	16	8	468	59
21	Grenada	20	13	730	56
22	Sri Lanka	25	16	889	56
23	UAE	20	15	832	55
24	St Maarten	12	10	497	50
25	Kenya	26	18	884	49
26	Singapore	47	31	1,516	49
27	Gibraltar	20	13	540	42
28	Ireland	32	21	796	38
29	Malaysia	18	13	487	37
30	USA	8	4	146	37
31	France	10	8	260	33
32	Philippines	17	12	345	29
33	Papua New Guinea	34	19	544	29
34	Cook Islands	11	6	167	28
35	St Lucia	20	13	348	27
36	Isle of Man	20	13	319	25
37	St Kitts & Nevis	11	6	130	22
38	Hong Kong, China	16	11	224	20
39	Cayman Islands	29	17	301	18
40	Malta	15	10	165	17
41	India	10	8	100	13
42	British Virgin Islands	10	8	83	10
43	Eswatini	16	10	99	10
44	Antigua & Barbuda	20	13	122	9
45	Dominica	12	9	61	7
46	Brunei	16	11	71	6
47	Israel	10	5	28	6
48	Canada	9	7	6	1
49	Chinese Taipei	9	7	0	0
49	Maldives	12	10	0	0
49	Switzerland	15	10	0	0
49	St Eustatius	8	8	0	0

Points:

The number of points earned by a team for any match depends on two factors. The result (won, drawn, lost) and the opponent against whom the result was achieved. The higher an opponent’s rating the more points are earned for beating them.

If a team wins a match, they will earn 50 points more than their opponent’s rating. But if they lose, they will earn 50 points less than their opponent’s rating. Worked numerical examples, including when this rule doesn’t apply, appear in our Frequently Asked Questions.

Rating Period:

It is not meaningful for a team to claim a world ranking if they have only played a small number of matches. As soon as a team has played minimum international test matches over the rating period (the current rating period started on the 1st July 2020) then they will have earned an official world ranking. If a team has played fewer than the minimum matches, they will still have a rating, but without a corresponding ranking. To have a ranking the team must have played at least 2 games against a rated team. The current minimum number of matches is eight.

To find out more about a rating period, visit our Frequently Asked Questions.

The following teams (in alphabetical order) currently have a rating in the system and could become ranked once they have played 8 matches:

Guadeloupe
Saudi Arabia
Solomon Islands
Tanzania
Thailand

The next group of teams are full World Netball Members that are eligible to play WN ranked matches but have not yet done so, meaning they don’t have a rating or a ranking. These include:

Argentina
Bermuda
Burundi
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Lesotho
Nigeria
Pakistan

Since its inception in 2007 the WN World Rankings methodology has been reviewed regularly by the WN Board to ensure it remains a robust and reliable ranking system that presents a true reflection of the quality and standing of the performances of international teams and that this system can be used with confidence for qualification purposes.

For more definitions and explanations regarding our World Rankings please visit our Frequently Asked Questions Page on the website, where you will be able to find written examples from our statistician David Kendix.

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