Rating
Unranked
Too few matches to place · Glicko-2 1501 ±89
Record
7-0-8
46.7% of 15 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-1.9
24.9 for, 26.7 against
Home advantage
-2.1
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- JP Pietersen (URC & ERCC)
- Captain
- André Esterhuizen
- Founded
- 1890
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Kings Park Stadium (46,000 capacity)
- Based in
- Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Western Province2022-06-10 · away21–28lost
- Golden Lions2022-06-04 · home32–38lost
- Free State Cheetahs2022-05-14 · away15–44lost
- Pumas2022-05-06 · home10–20lost
- Griquas2022-04-06 · away13–6won
Newest first, from Natal Sharks'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: 56-14 v Golden Lions
Heaviest defeat: 10-44 v Blue Bulls
Natal Sharks have never played the ranked field, so their rating sits on a scale that cannot be compared with it.
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.
- 1Harlequins0.61
- 2Auckland0.63
- 3Queensland Reds0.69
- 4Sale Sharks0.78
- 5Gloucester Rugby0.84
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.