Rating
58
Above average — top 37% · Glicko-2 1670 ±89
Record
68-4-50
55.7% of 122 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+4.2
24.8 for, 20.6 against
Home advantage
+11.9
Points per match better at home
Attack
-3%
24.8 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+23%
20.6 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Clayton McMillan
- Captain
- Tadhg Beirne
- Founded
- 1879
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Based in
- Limerick and Cork, Ireland
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Bulls2026-05-30 · away14–45lost
Lions2026-05-16 · home24–17won
Connacht2026-05-09 · away7–26lost
Ulster2026-04-25 · home41–14won
Benetton Treviso2026-04-18 · away45–15won
Newest first, from Munster'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: 64-3 v Dragons
Heaviest defeat: 0-45 v Sharks
Above average — top 37%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Munster. 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 68% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (23%) rises with more high-scoring matches, less close matches.
59 of 82 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 its name is in the tooltip.
- 1La Rochelle0.44
- 2Montpellier Herault0.65
- 3Ulster0.86
- 4Edinburgh0.93
- 5Stade Francais Paris1.12
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.