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Croatia

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

32

Average — 28th percentile · Glicko-2 436 ±96

Record

11-1-14

42.3% of 26 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-5.5

25.8 for, 31.3 against

Home advantage

+14.1

Points per match better at home

Attack

-2%

25.8 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

-14%

31.3 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

About the team
Head coach
Anthony Posa
Captain
Nik Jurišić
Union
Croatian Rugby Federation
First match
CRO 35–3 (7 November 1992)
World Cups
0

Anthem

Lijepa naša domovinoOur Beautiful Homeland

Croatian · February 29, 1972 · 0:59

Words
Croatian lyrics 1. Lijepa naša domovino, Oj junačka zemljo mila, Stare slave djedovino, Da bi vazda sretna bila! Mila, kano si nam slavna, Mila si nam ti jedina, Mila, kuda si nam ravna, Mila, kuda si planina! 2. Teci Savo, Dravo teci, Nit’ti Dunav silu gubi, Sinje more, svijetu reci, Da svoj narod Hrvat ljubi. Dok mu njive sunce grije, Dok mu hrašće bura vije, Dok mu mrtve grobak krije, Dok mu živo srce bije! English translation 1. Our beautiful homeland, Oh dear, heroic land, Fatherland of ancient glory, May you always be happy! Dear, as much as you are glorious, Only you are dear to us. Dear, where your land is flat, Dear, where it is mountainous. 2. Flow Sava, Drava flow, Nor you, Danube, lose your power, Azure sea, tell to the world That a Croat loves his nation. As long as sun warms his ploughed land, As long as storms lash his oak trees, As long as the grave hides his dead, As long as his living heart beats!

Recording and words from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.

From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.

Recent results
  • Slovenia2026-10-17 · home53–8won
  • Austria2026-10-10 · away24–18won
  • Serbia2026-10-03 · home27–5won
  • Lithuania2026-04-18 · away8–47lost
  • Mexico2026-04-10 · home17–33lost

Newest first, from Croatia'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.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer23%
Matches totalling 50 or more69%
Margin swing26.5 points
Last five, most recent firstwonwonwonlostlostW3

Biggest win: 48-3 v Slovenia

Heaviest defeat: 3-73 v Poland

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating32
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Average — 28th percentile

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Croatia. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.
component 1 →component 2 ↑South AfricaNew ZealandIrelandFranceEnglandAustraliaGeorgiaWalesItalyChileTongaHong Kong ChinaZimbabweNamibiaAlgeriaMexicoCayman IslandsNetherlandsParaguaySwitzerlandCzechiaBrazilUnited Arab EmiratesColombiaBarbadosGermanyUgandaMalaysiaCote D'IvoireMaltaLithuaniaThailandLatviaAndorraSloveniaTurkeyBosnia & HerzegovinaNorwayCroatia

Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.

27 of 66 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.

  1. 1Japan0.10
  2. 2Korea0.20
  3. 3Uruguay0.31
  4. 4Romania0.52
  5. 5Brazil0.65

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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