Rating
61
Strong — top 24% · Glicko-2 1752 ±92
Record
57-0-59
49.1% of 116 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+0.6
25.9 for, 25.3 against
Home advantage
+16.2
Points per match better at home
Attack
+2%
25.9 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+5%
25.3 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Stuart Lancaster
- Captain
- Cian Prendergast
- Founded
- 1885
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Galway Greyhound Stadium
- Capacity
- 12,000
- Based in
- Galway, Ireland
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Glasgow Warriors2026-05-29 · away21–33lost
Edinburgh2026-05-15 · away26–5won
Munster2026-05-09 · home26–7won
Lions2026-04-25 · away21–33lost
Stormers2026-04-18 · away33–24won
Newest first, from Connacht'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: 75-14 v US Montauban
Heaviest defeat: 8-56 v Edinburgh
Strong — top 24%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Connacht. 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.