Rating
Unranked
Not comparable with the ranked field · Glicko-2 1759 ±97
Record
28-1-27
50.0% of 56 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+3.4
30.0 for, 26.6 against
Home advantage
-6.8
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- Jimmy Stonehouse
- Captain
- Willie Engelbrecht
- Founded
- 1969
- League
- Currie Cup
- Ground
- Mbombela Stadium
- Capacity
- 43,500
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Griquas2026-09-12 · away16–23lost
Free State Cheetahs2026-09-06 · away27–24won- Free State Cheetahs2026-08-29 · home52–26won
- Griquas2026-08-21 · home14–38lost
Western Province2026-08-15 · home29–7won
Newest first, from Pumas'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: 64-6 v Griffons
Heaviest defeat: 21-75 v Golden Lions
No recent result connects Pumas 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.
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.
- 1Griquas0.17
- 2Wellington0.34
- 3Bristol Rugby0.55
- 4Northampton Saints0.58
- 5North Harbour0.90
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.