Rating
50
Above average — top 45% · Glicko-2 1046 ±101
Record
10-0-20
33.3% of 30 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-8.2
24.2 for, 32.4 against
Home advantage
+13.8
Points per match better at home
Attack
-8%
24.2 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-18%
32.4 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Bryan Easson
- Captain
- Koen Bloemen
- Union
- Dutch Rugby Union
- Home ground
- NRCA Stadium
- First match
- NED 0–6 (Amsterdam, Netherlands; 1 July 1930)
- Most caps
- Marc Visser (67)
Anthem
Het WilhelmusThe William
Dutch · 17th century · 0:49
Words
Recording and words 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.
- Germany2026-03-1576–7won
- Belgium2026-03-07 · away15–38lost
- Switzerland2026-02-22 · away23–29lost
Georgia2026-02-15 · home12–61lost
Spain2026-02-07 · home33–51lost
Newest first, from Netherlands'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: 73-0 v Switzerland
Heaviest defeat: 10-72 v Georgia
Above average — top 45%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Netherlands. 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.