Rating
Unranked
Not comparable with the ranked field · Glicko-2 1314 ±105
Record
23-0-49
31.9% of 72 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-5.9
23.6 for, 29.4 against
Home advantage
+8.3
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- Jamie Joseph
- Captain
- Hugh Renton
- Founded
- 1996
- League
- Super Rugby Pacific
- Ground
- Forsyth Barr Stadium
- Capacity
- 30,748
- Based in
- Dunedin, New Zealand
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Hurricanes2026-05-23 · away28–45lost
Chiefs2026-05-15 · away12–42lost
New South Wales Waratahs2026-05-09 · home31–26won
Fijian Drua2026-05-02 · away14–24lost
Moana Pasifika2026-04-26 · home27–17won
Newest first, from Highlanders'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: 61-10 v Western Force
Heaviest defeat: 7-50 v Hurricanes
No recent result connects Highlanders 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.
53 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.
- 1New South Wales Waratahs0.30
- 2Scarlets0.31
- 3Western Province0.38
- 4Auckland0.60
- 5Western Force0.89
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.