Rating
55
Above average — top 38% · Glicko-2 1240 ±95
Record
13-0-12
52.0% of 25 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-0.9
30.0 for, 30.9 against
Home advantage
+26.3
Points per match better at home
Attack
+14%
30.0 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-13%
30.9 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Pieter Rossouw
- Captain
- Johan Deysel
- Union
- Namibia Rugby Union
- Emblem
- African fish eagle
- Home ground
- Hage Geingob Rugby Stadium
- First match
- South West Africa 0–9 British and Irish Lions (Windhoek, Namibia; 5 July 1955)
- Most caps
- Eugene Jantjies (70)
- Leading scorer
- Theuns Kotzé (430)
- Most tries
- Chrysander Botha (28)
- World Cups
- 7, from 1999
- Best World Cup
- Pool stage (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023)
Anthem
Namibia, Land of the Brave
March 21, 1991 · 1:29
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.
- Brazil2025-11-1840–31won
Samoa2025-11-138–26lost- Belgium2025-11-0815–22lost
- United Arab Emirates2025-07-2686–29won
Zimbabwe2025-07-1928–30lost
Newest first, from Namibia'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: 71-5 v Burkina Faso
Heaviest defeat: 0-96 v France
Above average — top 38%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Namibia. 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.
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.
- 1Switzerland0.50
- 2Ukraine0.90
- 3Brazil0.90
- 4Luxembourg1.38
- 5Korea1.43
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.