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Poland

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

49

Above average — top 48% · Glicko-2 1014 ±98

Record

14-0-11

56.0% of 25 matches in the last five years

Average margin

+3.3

28.6 for, 25.4 against

Home advantage

+13.8

Points per match better at home

Attack

+9%

28.6 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

+7%

25.4 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

Biało-czerwoni (The White and Reds)
Head coach
Kamil Bobryk
Captain
Grzegorz Buczek
Union
Polish Rugby Union
Emblem
Red poppy
Home ground
Narodowy Stadion Rugby
First match
Poland 9–8 East Germany (Łódź, Poland 24 August 1958)
Most caps
Stanislaw Więciorek (65)
Leading scorer
Janusz Urbanowicz (205)

Anthem

Mazurek DąbrowskiegoDabrowski’s Mazurka

Polish · February 28, 1927 · 0:43

Words
Polish lyrics 1. Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła Kiedy my żyjemy. Co nam obca przemoc wzięła, Szablą odbierzemy. CHORUS: Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski, Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski. Za Twoim przewodem, Złączym się z narodem. 2. Przejdziem Wisłę, przejdziem Wartę, Będziem Polakami. Dał nam przykład Bonaparte, Jak zwyciężać mamy. Chorus 3. Jak Czarniecki do Poznania Po szwedzkim zaborze Dla ojczyzny ratowania Wrócim się przez morze. Chorus 4. Już tam ojciec do swej Basi Mówi zapłakany – Słuchaj jeno, pono nasi Biją w tarabany. Chorus English translation 1. Poland has not yet perished. As long as we live, What foreign violence has seized, With sabres in hand we will retrieve. CHORUS: March! March, Dabrowski! From Italy to Poland! Under your command Unite us as a people. 2. Cross the Vistula and Warta We shall be Poles; Bonaparte has shown us The way to victory. Chorus 3. Like Czarniecki to Poznan, After the war with the Swede, To save our country, We shall return by sea. Chorus 4. A father, in tears, says to his Basia: “Just listen, it seems that our people are beating the drums.” Chorus

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.

Recent results
  • Czechia2026-09-19 · home33–19won
  • Sweden2026-04-11 · home72–3won
  • Croatia2026-02-2873–3won
  • Czechia2025-11-22 · home30–32lost
  • Denmark2025-11-08 · home47–6won

Newest first, from Poland'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.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer28%
Matches totalling 50 or more60%
Margin swing33.5 points
Last five, most recent firstwonwonwonlostwonW3

Biggest win: 73-3 v Croatia

Heaviest defeat: 3-65 v Portugal

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating49
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Above average — top 48%

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Poland. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.
component 1 →component 2 ↑South AfricaNew ZealandIrelandFranceEnglandAustraliaGeorgiaWalesItalyPortugalTongaHong Kong ChinaZimbabweNamibiaAlgeriaNetherlandsParaguaySwitzerlandCzechiaUnited Arab EmiratesColombiaBarbadosGermanySwedenUgandaMalaysiaCote D'IvoireMaltaLithuaniaThailandLatviaAndorraSloveniaTurkeyBosnia & HerzegovinaNorwayPoland

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.

  1. 1Luxembourg0.41
  2. 2Portugal0.48
  3. 3Spain0.51
  4. 4Chile0.59
  5. 5Sweden0.72

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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