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Kenya

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

49

Above average — top 49% · Glicko-2 999 ±93

Record

9-0-10

47.4% of 19 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-6.6

22.9 for, 29.5 against

Home advantage

+19.9

Points per match better at home

Attack

-13%

22.9 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

-8%

29.5 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

Simbas
Head coach
Jerome Paarwater
Captain
Daniel Sikuta
Union
Kenya Rugby Union
Emblem
African lion
Home ground
RFUEA Ground
First match
Kenya Kenya won Tanganyika (1954)
Most caps
Joel Nganga (52)
Leading scorer
Darwin Mukidza (385)
Most tries
Darwin Mukidza (18)
World Cups
0

Anthem

Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu

Swahili · December 12, 1963 · 0:41

The words may still be in copyright — no death year could be established for the author — so they are not reproduced here.

Recording from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.

From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.

Recent results
  • Algeria2025-07-195–15lost
  • Zimbabwe2025-07-1323–29lost
  • Uganda2025-07-08 · away32–24won
  • Uganda2024-11-16 · away21–5won
  • Uganda2024-11-09 · home27–25won

Newest first, from Kenya'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.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer37%
Matches totalling 50 or more58%
Margin swing28.2 points
Last five, most recent firstlostlostwonwonwonL2

Biggest win: 42-7 v Uganda

Heaviest defeat: 0-85 v Portugal

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating49
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Above average — top 49%

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Kenya. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.

Teams that play alike sit close together. The two axes hold 72% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.

30 of 66 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.

  1. 1USA0.39
  2. 2Uruguay0.50
  3. 3Italy0.54
  4. 4Argentina0.54
  5. 5Senegal0.56

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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