Rating
66
Elite — top 7% of the field · Glicko-2 1864 ±93
Record
51-1-25
66.2% of 77 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+11.8
34.8 for, 23.0 against
Home advantage
+12.4
Points per match better at home
Attack
+37%
34.8 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+13%
23.0 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Clark Laidlaw
- Captain
- Jordie Barrett
- Founded
- 1996
- League
- Super Rugby Pacific
- Ground
- Hnry Stadium
- Capacity
- 34,500
- Based in
- Wellington, New Zealand; Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand; Hawke's Bay, New Zealand; Gisborne, New Zealand
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Chiefs2026-06-20 · home60–5won
Blues2026-06-13 · home57–21won
Brumbies2026-06-05 · home66–12won
Crusaders2026-05-29 · away14–47lost
Highlanders2026-05-23 · home45–28won
Newest first, from Hurricanes'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: 67-5 v Fijian Drua
Heaviest defeat: 14-47 v Crusaders
Elite — top 7% of the field
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Hurricanes. 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.
- 1Chiefs0.07
- 2Crusaders0.84
- 3Leinster0.95
- 4Blues1.15
- 5Free State Cheetahs1.17
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.