Rating
41
Below average — bottom 7% · Glicko-2 1260 ±96
Record
5-1-12
27.8% of 18 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-9.4
20.2 for, 29.6 against
Home advantage
+0.6
Points per match better at home
Attack
-21%
20.2 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-11%
29.6 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- François Steyn
- Captain
- Louis van der Westhuizen (EPCR)
- Founded
- 1895
- Ground
- Free State Stadium
- Capacity
- 46,000
- Based in
- Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Racing 922026-01-18 · away28–31lost
Ulster2026-01-11 · home0–28lost
Stade Francais Paris2025-12-13 · home22–45lost
Exeter Chiefs2025-12-07 · away12–42lost
Lyon2025-01-18 · away21–68lost
Newest first, from Cheetahs'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: 33-15 v Zebre
Heaviest defeat: 21-68 v Lyon
Below average — bottom 7%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Cheetahs. 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.
58 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.
- 1Perpignan0.29
- 2Brive0.52
- 3Oyonnax0.56
- 4Western Province0.73
- 5Dragons1.09
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.