Rating
44
Below average — bottom 20% · Glicko-2 1328 ±97
Record
20-0-49
29.0% of 69 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-6.6
23.1 for, 29.7 against
Home advantage
+10.1
Points per match better at home
Attack
-9%
23.1 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-12%
29.7 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- 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 2026-08-20. 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
Below average — bottom 20%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Highlanders. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.
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.
59 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.
- 1Scarlets0.35
- 2Vannes0.36
- 3Western Province0.63
- 4New South Wales Waratahs0.69
- 5Northland0.85
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.