Rating
Unranked
Too few matches to place · Glicko-2 1297 ±227
Record
6-0-3
66.7% of 9 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-1.0
25.3 for, 26.3 against
Home advantage
+37.8
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- Romain Balmisse (FRA)
- Captain
- Petar Nikolov
- Union
- Bulgarian Rugby Federation
- First match
- BUL 3 - 70 <BR/>(Sofia, Bulgaria; 20 May 1963)
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Serbia2025-05-10 · away28–44lost
- Moldova2025-04-18 · home18–17won
- Turkey2024-10-05 · away10–49lost
- Moldova2024-05-04 · away6–48lost
- Serbia2024-04-20 · home30–7won
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: 30-7 v Serbia
Heaviest defeat: 6-48 v Moldova
Too few matches on record to place Bulgaria against the field. The rating is real; it could move a long way on one result.
Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 67% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin, less points conceded. Component 2 (22%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
9 of 45 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.
- 1Chile0.46
- 2Luxembourg0.69
- 3USA0.84
- 4Sweden0.91
- 5Fiji0.99
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.