Rating
61
Strong — top 22% · Glicko-2 1820 ±98
Record
100-2-67
59.2% of 169 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+4.6
26.1 for, 21.5 against
Home advantage
+17.6
Points per match better at home
Attack
+2%
26.1 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+17%
21.5 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Ronan O'Gara
- Captain
- Grégory Alldritt
- Founded
- 1898
- Ground
- Stade Marcel-Deflandre
- Capacity
- 16,700
- Based in
- La Rochelle, France
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Lions2026-10-17 · home31–14won
Lyon2026-10-10 · away28–16won
Clermont Auvergne2026-10-03 · home38–13won
Pau2026-09-26 · away17–39lost
Racing 922026-09-19 · home10–20lost
Newest first, from La Rochelle'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: 66-0 v Toulon
Heaviest defeat: 14-60 v Stade Toulousain
Strong — top 22%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is La Rochelle. 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 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.
52 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.
- 1Montpellier Herault0.50
- 2Stormers0.54
- 3Edinburgh0.69
- 4Ulster0.74
- 5Toulon0.91
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.