Rating
67
Elite — top 10% of the field · Glicko-2 1915 ±101
Record
111-1-29
78.7% of 141 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+14.9
32.8 for, 17.8 against
Home advantage
+15.2
Points per match better at home
Attack
+28%
32.8 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+31%
17.8 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Leo Cullen
- Captain
- Caelan Doris
- Founded
- 1879
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- RDS Arena
- Based in
- Dublin, Ireland
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Clermont Auvergne2026-10-17 · away48–23won
Cardiff Blues2026-10-10 · home29–5won
Sharks2026-10-03 · away20–26lost
Lions2026-09-26 · away26–27lost
Bulls2026-06-19 · home36–7won
Newest first, from Leinster'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: 89-7 v Montpellier Herault
Heaviest defeat: 7-62 v Bulls
Elite — top 10% of the field
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Leinster. 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.
53 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.
- 1Stade Toulousain0.75
- 2Canterbury1.07
- 3Hurricanes1.07
- 4Chiefs1.20
- 5Blues1.30
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.