Rating
68
Strong — top 17% · Glicko-2 1763 ±71
Record
36-1-26
57.1% of 63 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+7.4
28.9 for, 21.5 against
Home advantage
+3.1
Points per match better at home
Attack
+13%
28.9 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+23%
21.5 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Steve Borthwick
- Captain
- Maro Itoje
- Union
- Rugby Football Union
- Emblem
- Red Rose
- Home ground
- Twickenham Stadium
- First match
- Scotland 1–0 England (Edinburgh, Scotland; 27 March 1871)
- Most caps
- Ben Youngs (127)
- Leading scorer
- Owen Farrell (1,237)
- Most tries
- Rory Underwood (49)
- World Cups
- 10, from 1987
- Best World Cup
- Champions (2003)
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Argentina2026-07-18 · away31–24won
Fiji2026-07-11 · away73–8won
South Africa2026-07-04 · away21–45lost
France2026-03-14 · away46–48lost
Italy2026-03-07 · away18–23lost
Newest first, from England'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: 71-0 v Chile
Heaviest defeat: 10-53 v France
Strong — top 17%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is England. 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 67% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin, less points conceded. Component 2 (22%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
10 of 45 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.
- 1Latvia0.69
- 2Moldova1.06
- 3Scotland1.35
- 4Samoa1.50
- 5South Africa1.51
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.