Rating
61
Strong — top 20% · Glicko-2 1825 ±98
Record
99-2-68
58.6% of 169 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+6.0
28.7 for, 22.7 against
Home advantage
+17.5
Points per match better at home
Attack
+12%
28.7 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+12%
22.7 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Yannick Bru
- Captain
- Jefferson Poirot
- Founded
- 2006
- Ground
- Stade Chaban-Delmas
- Capacity
- 32,215
- Based in
- Bordeaux, France
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Gloucester Rugby2026-10-16 · away36–36drew
Clermont Auvergne2026-10-10 · away23–22won
Lyon2026-10-03 · home51–28won
Perpignan2026-09-26 · away25–38lost
Stade Francais Paris2026-09-20 · home40–10won
Newest first, from Bordeaux Begles'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: 64-5 v Racing 92
Heaviest defeat: 3-59 v Stade Toulousain
Strong — top 20%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Bordeaux Begles. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.
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.
52 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.
- 1Glasgow Warriors0.19
- 2Bay of Plenty0.33
- 3Brumbies0.64
- 4Stormers0.75
- 5Leicester Tigers0.76
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.