Rating
Unranked
Not comparable with the ranked field · Glicko-2 1704 ±95
Record
35-2-19
62.5% of 56 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+6.5
32.2 for, 25.7 against
Home advantage
+5.0
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- François Steyn
- Captain
- Neels Volschenk
- Founded
- 1895
- Ground
- Free State Stadium
- Capacity
- 46,000
- Based in
- Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Pumas2026-09-06 · home24–27lost- Pumas2026-08-29 · away26–52lost
Boland Cavaliers2026-08-23 · home33–24won
Blue Bulls2026-08-16 · away62–52won
Western Province2026-08-09 · away31–26won
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: 82-20 v Griffons
Heaviest defeat: 21-61 v Pumas
No recent result connects Free State Cheetahs to 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 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.
52 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.
- 1Saracens0.23
- 2Bulls0.41
- 3Crusaders0.44
- 4Northampton Saints0.77
- 5Hawke's Bay0.79
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.