Rating
58
Above average — top 34% · Glicko-2 1762 ±98
Record
62-1-57
51.7% of 120 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+0.9
29.1 for, 28.1 against
Home advantage
+10.1
Points per match better at home
Attack
+14%
29.1 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-9%
28.1 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Pat Lam
- Captain
- Fitz Harding
- Founded
- 1888
- Ground
- Ashton Gate Stadium
- Capacity
- 27,000
- Based in
- Bristol, England
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Stormers2026-10-17 · away12–49lost
Saracens2026-10-10 · away7–30lost
Northampton Saints2026-10-03 · home41–26won
Sale Sharks2026-09-26 · away34–24won- Sale Sharks2026-06-06 · away17–38lost
Newest first, from Bristol Rugby'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: 85-14 v Newcastle Falcons
Heaviest defeat: 33-94 v Northampton Saints
Above average — top 34%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Bristol Rugby. 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.
- 1Wellington0.32
- 2North Harbour0.36
- 3Pumas0.55
- 4Griquas0.71
- 5Harlequins0.97
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.