Rating
Unranked
Not comparable with the ranked field · Glicko-2 1288 ±100
Record
26-2-24
50.0% of 52 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+0.2
31.5 for, 31.2 against
Home advantage
+4.5
Points per match better at home
- Captain
- Marcell Coetzee (URC & ERCC)
- Founded
- 1938
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Loftus Versfeld Stadium
- Capacity
- 51,762
- Based in
- Pretoria, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Natal Sharks2026-08-28 · away22–53lost
Western Province2026-08-21 · home26–50lost
Free State Cheetahs2026-08-16 · home52–62lost
Pumas2026-08-08 · home31–33lost
Golden Lions2026-08-01 · away19–42lost
Newest first, from Blue Bulls'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.
Biggest win: 64-0 v Natal Sharks
Heaviest defeat: 15-63 v Pumas
No recent result connects Blue Bulls to the ranked field, so their rating sits on a scale that cannot be compared with it.
Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (46%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (25%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
53 of 84 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.
- 1Golden Lions0.56
- 2Counties Manukau1.59
- 3Pumas1.64
- 4Griquas1.65
- 5Bristol Rugby1.71
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.