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England

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

Rating

84

Elite — top 6% of the field · Glicko-2 2235 ±72

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

+10%

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

Defence

+21%

21.5 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

About the team
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)

Anthem

God Save the King

1745 · 1:03

England sing God Save the King, the anthem of the United Kingdom.

Words
English lyrics 1. God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King, God save the King: Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us: God save the King. 2. O Lord, our God, arise, Scatter his enemies, And make them fall. Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix, God save us all. 3. Thy choicest gifts in store, On him be pleased to pour; Long may he reign: May he defend our laws, And ever give us cause With heart and voice to sing God save the King

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

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.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer46%
Matches totalling 50 or more48%
Margin swing21.9 points
Last five, most recent firstwonwonlostlostlostW2

Biggest win: 71-0 v Chile

Heaviest defeat: 10-53 v France

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating84
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Elite — top 6% of the field

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.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.
component 1 →component 2 ↑South AfricaNew ZealandIrelandFranceAustraliaGeorgiaWalesItalyChileTongaHong Kong ChinaZimbabweNamibiaAlgeriaMexicoCayman IslandsNetherlandsParaguaySwitzerlandCzechiaUnited Arab EmiratesColombiaBarbadosGermanyMalaysiaCote D'IvoireMaltaLithuaniaThailandLatviaMoldovaAndorraSloveniaTurkeyNorwayEngland

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.

30 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. 1Zimbabwe0.17
  2. 2Moldova0.33
  3. 3Denmark0.64
  4. 4Finland0.86
  5. 5Serbia1.02

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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