Rating
48
Above average — top 43% · Glicko-2 1367 ±76
Record
21-1-35
36.8% of 57 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-8.4
22.3 for, 30.7 against
Home advantage
+10.8
Points per match better at home
Attack
-13%
22.3 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-10%
30.7 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Gonzalo Quesada
- Captain
- Michele Lamaro
- Union
- Italian Rugby Federation
- Home ground
- Stadio Olimpico
- First match
- 1874 9–0 (Barcelona, Spain; 20 May 1929)
- Most caps
- Sergio Parisse (142)
- Leading scorer
- Diego Domínguez (983)
- Most tries
- Marcello Cuttitta (26)
- World Cups
- 10, from 1987
- Best World Cup
- Pool stage (1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023)
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Australia2026-07-18 · away10–57lost
New Zealand2026-07-11 · away17–47lost
Japan2026-07-04 · away10–27lost
Wales2026-03-14 · away17–31lost
England2026-03-07 · home23–18won
Newest first, from Italy'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: 73-6 v Namibia
Heaviest defeat: 17-96 v New Zealand
Above average — top 43%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Italy. 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 67% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin, less points conceded. Component 2 (22%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
9 of 45 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.