Rating
69
Elite — top 5% of the field · Glicko-2 1957 ±104
Record
80-1-54
59.3% of 135 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+3.5
31.8 for, 28.3 against
Home advantage
+16.5
Points per match better at home
Attack
+24%
31.8 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-10%
28.3 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Phil Dowson
- Captain
- Fraser Dingwall
- Founded
- 1880
- League
- Premiership Rugby
- Ground
- Franklin's Gardens
- Capacity
- 15,249
- Based in
- Northampton, England
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Cardiff Blues2026-10-18 · home28–12won
Bath Rugby2026-10-10 · home71–48won
Bristol Rugby2026-10-03 · away26–41lost
Newcastle Falcons2026-09-25 · home59–26won
Exeter Chiefs2026-06-20 · home26–17won
Newest first, from Northampton Saints'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: 90-0 v Gloucester Rugby
Heaviest defeat: 0-54 v Sale Sharks
Elite — top 5% of the field
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Northampton Saints. 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 (46%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (25%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
52 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.
- 1Griquas0.41
- 2Pumas0.58
- 3Free State Cheetahs0.77
- 4Wellington0.86
- 5Saracens0.99
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.