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Glasgow Warriors vs Sale Sharks

What the model says about this fixture, at either ground and at a neutral one, with the record behind it. Ratings as at 2026-10-19.

Who wins, and where it is played
Glasgow Warriors at home34-19 average
Glasgow Warriors 81.6%draw 2.5%15.9% Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks at home25-28 average
Sale Sharks 36.2%draw 2.5%61.3% Glasgow Warriors
Neutral ground31-23 average
Glasgow Warriors 73.9%draw 2.5%23.6% Sale Sharks

Each figure is 5,000 simulations of this fixture. The score is where those runs are centred, not a likely scoreline — a rugby result is spread far too widely for any single one to be likely.

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How the runs finished

Winning margin across 5,000 simulations of this fixture. Bars right of the centre are Glasgow Warriors wins; the faded bars at each end hold everything beyond 75 points.

Margin percentiles

  • Middle 8 in 10
  • Middle half
  • Median
  • Level
  • Average

Eight runs in ten finished between 3 Sale Sharks and 34 Glasgow Warriors, half of them between 2 Glasgow Warriors and 21 Glasgow Warriors, with the middle run at 10 Glasgow Warriors.

Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 33 and 76 points in eight runs out of ten — so one bar covers many scores. The middle run above is 26-16 on a tight afternoon and 37-27 on an open one.

Why Glasgow Warriors are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Glasgow Warriors winning. It starts at an even 50%, and each line below adds to that or takes from it, in percentage points (pp): a bar to the right helps Glasgow Warriors, a bar to the left helps Sale Sharks.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+31.7 pp

Glasgow Warriors 1949, Sale Sharks 1504 — 445 points, favouring Glasgow Warriors

Venue+7.7 pp

Glasgow Warriors are at home

Form and context-7.8 pp

Recent results, past meetings between the two sides, and days of rest. It has a limit, so it can nudge the rating but never overrule it.

Glasgow Warriors win81.6%
Sale Sharks win15.9%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

Glasgow Warriors5–0–0Sale Sharks

5 meetings, 2019 to 2026 · Glasgow Warriors by 17.6 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2026-10-17Sale Sharks 27–47 Glasgow WarriorsEuropean Champions CupCorpAcq Stadium
2025-12-05Sale Sharks 21–26 Glasgow WarriorsEuropean Champions CupCorpAcq Stadium
2024-12-07Glasgow Warriors 38–19 Sale SharksEuropean Champions CupScotstoun Stadium
2020-01-18Sale Sharks 7–45 Glasgow WarriorsEuropean Champions CupCorpAcq Stadium
2019-11-16Glasgow Warriors 13–7 Sale SharksEuropean Champions CupScotstoun Stadium

None of this feeds the forecast: both ratings already contain these results.

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