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Latvia

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

Rating

26

Below average — bottom 20% · Glicko-2 212 ±102

Record

7-1-5

53.8% of 13 matches in the last five years

Average margin

+5.6

28.4 for, 22.8 against

Home advantage

+8.3

Points per match better at home

Attack

+8%

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

Defence

+17%

22.8 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

About the team
Head coach
Mārcis Rullis
Captain
Elmārs Šefanovskis
Union
Latvian Rugby Federation
First match
Latvia 3 - 28 Georgia <BR/>(1992-07-19)
Leading scorer
Roberts Džo Davidsons (209 points)
World Cups
0

Anthem

Dievs, svētī Latviju!God Bless Latvia

Latvian · June 7, 1920 · 1:46

Words
Latvian lyrics Dievs, svētī Latviju Mūs’ dārgo tēviju Svētī jel Latviju Ak, svētī jel to Dievs, svētī Latviju Mūs’ dārgo tēviju Svētī jel Latviju Ak, svētī jel to Kur latvju meitas zied Kur latvju dēli dzied Laid mums tur laimē diet Mūs’ Latvijā Kur latvju meitas zied Kur latvju dēli dzied Laid mums tur laimē diet Mūs’ Latvijā English translation God, bless Latvia, Our dearest fatherland, Do bless Latvia, Oh, do bless it! God, bless Latvia, Our dearest fatherland, Do bless Latvia, Oh, do bless it! Where Latvian daughters bloom, Where Latvian sons sing, Let us dance in happiness there, In our Latvia! Where Latvian daughters bloom, Where Latvian sons sing, Let us dance in happiness there, In our Latvia!

Recording and words 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
  • Norway2025-11-01 · home59–7won
  • Finland2025-10-25 · away14–14drew
  • Finland2025-04-26 · home19–20lost
  • Denmark2025-04-19 · away10–13lost
  • Norway2024-10-26 · away36–19won

Newest first, from Latvia'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 fewer39%
Matches totalling 50 or more62%
Margin swing26.5 points
Last five, most recent firstwondrewlostlostwonW1

Biggest win: 59-7 v Norway

Heaviest defeat: 17-54 v Czechia

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating26
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Below average — bottom 20%

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

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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.

29 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. 1Serbia0.22
  2. 2Scotland0.41
  3. 3Fiji0.55
  4. 4Denmark0.58
  5. 5Bulgaria0.68

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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