Current World Rankings

Based on matches up to 6th August 2023.

Ranking	Team	Played	Weighted	Points	Rating
1	Australia	46	36	7,455	207
2	New Zealand	54	41	7,739	189
3	England	56	42	7,715	184
4	Jamaica	52	43	7,837	182
5	South Africa	73	51	7,819	153
6	Malawi	64	48	6,173	129
7	Uganda	57	41	5,094	124
8	Tonga	29	28	3,433	123
9	Wales	37	30	3,521	117
10	Scotland	30	26	2,751	106
11	Trinidad & Tobago	38	32	3,007	94
12	Northern Ireland	27	19	1,668	88
13	Zimbabwe	48	35	2,923	84
14	Barbados	40	33	2,440	74
15	Zambia	31	22	1,619	74
16	Samoa	28	23	1,652	72
17	St Vincent & Grenadines	17	15	1,074	72
18	Fiji	37	34	2,430	71
19	Cook Islands	13	9	593	66
20	Sri Lanka	21	18	1,137	63
21	Grenada	10	9	514	57
22	Namibia	36	24	1,308	55
23	Botswana	24	17	925	54
24	UAE	14	12	620	52
25	Ireland	33	27	1,057	39
26	Singapore	44	36	1,406	39
27	Isle of Man	27	21	763	36
28	Malaysia	14	13	440	34
29	St Lucia	13	11	366	33
30	USA	11	10	327	33
31	Gibraltar	24	20	630	32
32	Kenya	30	21	601	29
33	Antigua & Barbuda	24	16	322	20
34	Cayman Islands	23	20	387	19
35	Malta	14	12	122	10
36	Papua New Guinea	26	22	122	6
37	Israel	10	10	55	6
38	Tanzania	15	11	55	5
39	St Kitts & Nevis	11	6	19	3
40	St Maarten	11	6	0	0
40	Switzerland	14	12	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 2019) 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:

Brunei
Canada
Chinese Taipei
Dominica
Eswatini
France
Hong Kong
India
Maldives
Lesotho
Philippines
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
British Virgin Islands
Burundi
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Guadeloupe
Nigeria
Pakistan
Solomon Islands

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.

If you’d like to go back to our World Rankings Hub page, click here.

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