Rating
19
Below average — bottom 12% · Glicko-2 -29 ±98
Record
9-1-5
60.0% of 15 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-0.9
24.6 for, 25.5 against
Home advantage
+33.7
Points per match better at home
Attack
-7%
24.6 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+7%
25.5 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Ivaylo Ivanov
- Captain
- Petar Nikolov
- Union
- Bulgarian Rugby Federation
- First match
- BUL 3 - 70 <BR/>(Sofia, Bulgaria; 20 May 1963)
Anthem
Мила РодиноDear Homeland
Bulgarian (Cyrillic script) · 1964 · 1:13
The words may still be in copyright — no death year could be established for the author — so they are not reproduced here.
Recording from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Turkey2026-10-03 · away31–31drew
- Moldova2026-04-25 · home23–26lost
- Ukraine2026-04-180–48lost
- Turkey2025-10-04 · home16–14won
- Serbia2025-05-10 · away28–44lost
Newest first, from Bulgaria'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: 54-13 v Turkey
Heaviest defeat: 0-48 v Ukraine
Below average — bottom 12%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Bulgaria. 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 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
29 of 66 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.