Rating
Unranked
Not comparable with the ranked field · Glicko-2 1548 ±102
Record
56-0-26
68.3% of 82 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+8.6
31.1 for, 22.5 against
Home advantage
+11.3
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- Jason Holland
- Captain
- Patrick Tuipulotu
- Founded
- 1996
- League
- Super Rugby Pacific
- Ground
- Eden Park
- Capacity
- 50,000
- Based in
- Auckland, New Zealand
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Hurricanes2026-06-13 · away21–57lost
Crusaders2026-06-06 · away31–52lost
Chiefs2026-05-30 · away34–59lost- Hurricanes2026-05-16 · home24–47lost
- Crusaders2026-05-08 · away20–36lost
Newest first, from Blues'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: 50-3 v Western Force
Heaviest defeat: 15-52 v Crusaders
No recent result connects Blues 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.
51 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.
- 1Canterbury0.38
- 2Bulls0.44
- 3Crusaders0.45
- 4Saracens0.68
- 5Taranaki0.82
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.