Rating
Unranked
Too few matches to place · Glicko-2 1431 ±94
Record
2-0-11
15.4% of 13 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-19.2
22.5 for, 41.7 against
Home advantage
+4.8
Points per match better at home
- Captain
- Francke Horn (URC & ERCC)
- Founded
- 1889
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Ellis Park Stadium
- Capacity
- 62,567
- Based in
- Johannesburg, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Natal Sharks2022-06-04 · away38–32won
- Western Province2022-05-28 · home33–10won
- Blue Bulls2022-05-14 · away37–43lost
- Free State Cheetahs2022-05-06 · home26–35lost
- Griquas2022-04-14 · home17–23lost
Newest first, from Golden Lions'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: 33-10 v Western Province
Heaviest defeat: 14-66 v Free State Cheetahs
Golden Lions 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.
- 1Manawatu0.12
- 2Moana Pasifika1.01
- 3US Montauban2.49
- 4Worcester Warriors2.58
- 5Newcastle Falcons3.10
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.