Rating
52
Above average — top 49% · Glicko-2 1664 ±97
Record
53-3-55
47.7% of 111 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+0.0
25.7 for, 25.7 against
Home advantage
+17.0
Points per match better at home
Attack
+0%
25.7 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+0%
25.7 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Captain
- Francke Horn (URC & ERCC)
- Founded
- 1889
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Ellis Park Stadium
- Capacity
- 62,567
- Based in
- Johannesburg, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
La Rochelle2026-10-17 · away14–31lost
Bulls2026-10-10 · away15–57lost
Ospreys2026-10-03 · home35–19won
Leinster2026-09-26 · home27–26won- Leinster2026-05-30 · away10–59lost
Newest first, from Lions'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: 60-10 v Dragons
Heaviest defeat: 10-59 v Leinster
Above average — top 49%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Lions. 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.
- 1Benetton Treviso0.24
- 2Lyon0.24
- 3Queensland Reds0.30
- 4London Irish0.32
- 5Racing 920.35
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.