Rating
Unranked
Too few matches to place · Glicko-2 1739 ±95
Record
12-0-3
80.0% of 15 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+9.0
36.5 for, 27.5 against
Home advantage
-4.2
Points per match better at home
- Captain
- Ruan Nortjé (URC & ERCC)
- Founded
- 1938
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Loftus Versfeld Stadium
- Capacity
- 51,762
- Based in
- Pretoria, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Griquas2022-06-17 · home19–30lost
- Free State Cheetahs2022-06-11 · away5–35lost
- Pumas2022-05-27 · home31–26won
- Golden Lions2022-05-14 · home43–37won
- Griquas2022-05-07 · home48–38won
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: 44-10 v Natal Sharks
Heaviest defeat: 5-35 v Free State Cheetahs
Blue Bulls have never played 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 68% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (23%) rises with more high-scoring matches, less close matches.
60 of 82 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 its name is in the tooltip.
- 1Chiefs2.22
- 2Northampton Saints2.28
- 3Hurricanes2.29
- 4Crusaders2.64
- 5Saracens2.70
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.