Rating
62
Strong — top 19% · Glicko-2 1769 ±92
Record
72-0-47
60.5% of 119 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+5.3
30.1 for, 24.7 against
Home advantage
+18.9
Points per match better at home
Attack
+18%
30.1 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+7%
24.7 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Captain
- Ruan Nortjé (URC & ERCC)
- Founded
- 1938
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Loftus Versfeld Stadium
- Capacity
- 51,762
- Based in
- Pretoria, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Leinster2026-06-19 · away7–36lost
Glasgow Warriors2026-06-06 · away22–21won
Munster2026-05-30 · home45–14won
Benetton Treviso2026-05-16 · home45–19won
Zebre2026-05-09 · home54–19won
Newest first, from Bulls'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: 78-12 v Zebre
Heaviest defeat: 5-50 v Northampton Saints
Strong — top 19%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Bulls. 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 68% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (23%) rises with more high-scoring matches, less close matches.
59 of 82 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.
- 1Wellington0.10
- 2Brumbies0.33
- 3Hawke's Bay0.33
- 4Bath Rugby0.68
- 5Saracens0.68
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.