Rating
64
Strong — top 12% · Glicko-2 1862 ±99
Record
79-0-46
63.2% of 125 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+7.0
31.4 for, 24.4 against
Home advantage
+18.1
Points per match better at home
Attack
+23%
31.4 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+5%
24.4 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Captain
- Marcell Coetzee (URC & ERCC)
- Founded
- 1938
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Loftus Versfeld Stadium
- Capacity
- 51,762
- Based in
- Pretoria, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Stade Francais Paris2026-10-17 · home56–20won
Lions2026-10-10 · home57–15won
Munster2026-10-03 · away22–26lost
Zebre2026-09-26 · away47–13won
Leinster2026-06-19 · away7–36lost
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 12%
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 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.
51 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.
- 1Crusaders0.11
- 2Saracens0.27
- 3Free State Cheetahs0.41
- 4Blues0.44
- 5Hawke's Bay0.72
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.