Rating
34
Average — 31st percentile · Glicko-2 507 ±108
Record
7-0-3
70.0% of 10 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+11.6
26.0 for, 14.4 against
Home advantage
-6.0
Points per match better at home
Attack
-1%
26.0 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+47%
14.4 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Phil Pretorius
- Captain
- Joseph Greaves
- Union
- Malta Rugby Football Union
- Emblem
- The Ram
- First match
- MLD 58–8 <BR/>(Chisinau, Moldova; 18 November 2000)
- World Cups
- 0
Anthem
L-Innu MaltiThe Hymn of Malta
Maltese · 1945 · 0:49
The words are still in copyright, 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.
- Austria2026-05-24 · home39–13won
- Israel2026-04-11 · home50–25won
- Andorra2026-04-04 · away44–24won
- Israel2025-04-05 · home15–16lost
- Andorra2024-11-30 · away10–3won
Newest first, from Malta'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: 46-10 v Slovenia
Heaviest defeat: 14-23 v Bulgaria
Average — 31st percentile
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Malta. 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 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
31 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.