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Argentina

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

78

Strong — top 11% · Glicko-2 2036 ±71

Record

25-1-32

43.1% of 58 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-0.9

27.5 for, 28.4 against

Home advantage

+0.7

Points per match better at home

Attack

+5%

27.5 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

-4%

28.4 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

Los Pumas (The Pumas)
Head coach
Felipe Contepomi
Captain
Julián Montoya
Union
Argentine Rugby Union
Emblem
Puma
First match
Argentina 3–28 British Isles (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 12 June 1910)
Most caps
Pablo Matera (112)
Leading scorer
Nicolás Sánchez (899)
World Cups
10, from 1987
Best World Cup
Third place (2007)

Anthem

Himno Nacional ArgentinoArgentine National Anthem

Spanish · May 11, 1813 · 3:33

Words
Spanish lyrics Oíd, mortales, el grito sagrado: “¡Libertad, libertad, libertad!” Oíd el ruido de rotas cadenas, ved en trono a la noble igualdad. Ya su trono dignísimo abrieron las Provincias Unidas del Sud y los libres del mundo responden: “Al gran pueblo argentino, ¡Salud!” “Al gran pueblo argentino, ¡Salud!” Y los libres del mundo responden: “Al gran pueblo argentino, ¡Salud!” Y los libres del mundo responden: “Al gran pueblo argentino, ¡Salud!” CHORUS: Sean eternos los laureles que supimos conseguir, que supimos conseguir. Coronados de gloria vivamos… ¡o juremos con gloria morir!, ¡o juremos con gloria morir!, ¡o juremos con gloria morir! English translation Hear, mortals, the sacred cry: “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” Hear the noise of broken chains, see the noble Equality enthroned. Their most honorable throne have opened the United Provinces of the South. And the free ones of the world reply: “To the Argentine people, cheers!” “To the Argentine people, cheers!” And the free ones of the world reply: “To the Argentine people, cheers!” And the free ones of the world reply: “To the Argentine people, cheers!” CHORUS: May the laurels be eternal the ones we managed to win, the ones we managed to win. Let us live crowned in glory… or let us swear in glory to die! Or let us swear in glory to die! Or let us swear in glory to die!

Recording and words from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.

From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.

Recent results

Newest first, from Argentina's own point of view. Home and away are as the record stores them; a fixture the record does not mark neutral is listed as one side's home, which is right for a league round and wrong for a final played at a third ground.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer36%
Matches totalling 50 or more69%
Margin swing24.0 points
Last five, most recent firstdrewlostlostlostwonD1

Biggest win: 79-5 v Uruguay

Heaviest defeat: 3-53 v New Zealand

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating78
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Strong — top 11%

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Argentina. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.
component 1 →component 2 ↑South AfricaNew ZealandIrelandFranceEnglandAustraliaGeorgiaWalesFijiChileTongaHong Kong ChinaZimbabweNamibiaAlgeriaMexicoNetherlandsParaguaySwitzerlandCzechiaUnited Arab EmiratesColombiaBarbadosGermanyUgandaMalaysiaCote D'IvoireMaltaLithuaniaThailandLatviaAndorraSloveniaTurkeyBosnia & HerzegovinaNorwayArgentina

Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.

29 of 66 teams sit too close together to name without covering another team's point, so they are drawn unlabelled. Every dot is still a link to that team, and hovering one names it.

  1. 1USA0.29
  2. 2Kenya0.54
  3. 3Bulgaria0.54
  4. 4Fiji0.56
  5. 5Spain0.62

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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