Rating
33
Below average — bottom 15% · Glicko-2 1330 ±98
Record
21-7-86
18.4% of 114 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-11.4
19.6 for, 31.1 against
Home advantage
+15.4
Points per match better at home
Attack
-24%
19.6 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-21%
31.1 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Filo Tiatia
- Captain
- Ben Carter
- Founded
- 2003
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Rodney Parade
- Capacity
- 8,700
- Based in
- Newport, Wales
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Perpignan2026-10-16 · home29–14won
Ospreys2026-10-09 · home31–38lost
Scarlets2026-10-03 · home38–26won
Benetton Treviso2026-09-25 · away19–19drew- Scarlets2026-05-16 · away35–35drew
Newest first, from Dragons'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: 47-7 v Zebre
Heaviest defeat: 3-64 v Munster
Below average — bottom 15%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Dragons. 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.