Rating
Unranked
Too few matches to place · Glicko-2 1771 ±91
Record
10-0-5
66.7% of 15 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+9.2
32.9 for, 23.7 against
Home advantage
+16.0
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- François Steyn
- Captain
- Louis van der Westhuizen (EPCR)
- Founded
- 1895
- Ground
- Free State Stadium
- Capacity
- 46,000
- Based in
- Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Pumas2022-06-18 · home35–38lost
- Blue Bulls2022-06-11 · home35–5won
- Pumas2022-06-03 · home28–29lost
- Griquas2022-05-28 · away18–46lost
- Natal Sharks2022-05-14 · home44–15won
Newest first, from Free State Cheetahs'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: 66-14 v Golden Lions
Heaviest defeat: 18-46 v Griquas
Free State Cheetahs have never played the ranked field, so their rating sits on a scale that cannot be compared with it.
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.
- 1Blues0.03
- 2Hawke's Bay0.56
- 3Crusaders0.59
- 4Bulls0.73
- 5Wellington0.73
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.