Rating
Unranked
Not comparable with the ranked field · Glicko-2 1678 ±98
Record
28-3-21
53.8% of 52 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-0.1
25.9 for, 26.0 against
Home advantage
+13.5
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 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Blue Bulls2026-08-28 · home53–22won
Golden Lions2026-08-21 · home22–22drew
Griquas2026-08-14 · away21–55lost
Boland Cavaliers2026-08-08 · home19–12won
Western Province2026-08-01 · away28–36lost
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: 75-19 v Griffons
Heaviest defeat: 0-64 v Blue Bulls
No recent result connects Natal Sharks to 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 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.
51 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.
- 1Connacht0.22
- 2Clermont Auvergne0.24
- 3Sharks0.25
- 4Racing 920.41
- 5Exeter Chiefs0.42
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.