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Australia

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

Rating

80

Elite — top 9% of the field · Glicko-2 2101 ±72

Record

24-1-40

36.9% of 65 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-4.1

24.7 for, 28.8 against

Home advantage

+7.7

Points per match better at home

Attack

-6%

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

Defence

-5%

28.8 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

Wallabies
Head coach
Les Kiss
Captain
Harry Wilson
Union
Rugby Australia
Emblem
Wallaby
First match
Australia 13–3 British Isles (Sydney, New South Wales; 24 June 1899)
Most caps
James Slipper (154)
Leading scorer
Michael Lynagh (911)
Most tries
David Campese (64)
World Cups
10, from 1987
Best World Cup
Champions (1991, 1999)

Anthem

Advance Australia Fair

April 19, 1984 · 0:54

Words
English lyrics 1. Australians all let us rejoice, For we are one and free; We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil, Our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in Nature’s gifts Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page, let every stage Advance Australia fair! In joyful strains then let us sing, “Advance Australia fair!” 2. Beneath our radiant southern Cross, We’ll toil with hearts and hands; To make this Commonwealth of ours Renowned of all the lands; For those who’ve come across the seas We’ve boundless plains to share; With courage let us all combine To advance Australia fair. In joyful strains then let us sing “Advance Australia fair!”

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 Australia'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 fewer43%
Matches totalling 50 or more57%
Margin swing16.8 points
Last five, most recent firstlostlostwondrewwonL2

Biggest win: 57-10 v Italy

Heaviest defeat: 27-67 v Argentina

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating80
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Elite — top 9% of the field

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Australia. 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 ZealandIrelandFranceEnglandGeorgiaChileTongaHong Kong ChinaZimbabweCanadaNamibiaAlgeriaMexicoCayman IslandsNetherlandsParaguaySwitzerlandCzechiaUnited Arab EmiratesColombiaBarbadosGermanyUgandaMalaysiaCote D'IvoireMaltaLithuaniaThailandLatviaIsraelAndorraSloveniaTurkeyNorwayAustralia

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.

30 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. 1Israel0.40
  2. 2Senegal0.58
  3. 3Samoa0.77
  4. 4Belgium0.81
  5. 5Kenya1.13

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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