Rating
Unranked
Too few matches to place · Glicko-2 1735 ±90
Record
8-1-7
50.0% of 16 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+3.8
27.4 for, 23.7 against
Home advantage
-7.2
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 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Griquas2022-06-25 · away26–19won
- Free State Cheetahs2022-06-18 · away38–35won
- Griquas2022-06-10 · home44–45lost
- Free State Cheetahs2022-06-03 · away29–28won
- Blue Bulls2022-05-27 · away26–31lost
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: 50-9 v Golden Lions
Heaviest defeat: 20-41 v Griquas
Pumas have never played 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 68% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (23%) rises with more high-scoring matches, less close matches.
58 of 82 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 its name is in the tooltip.
- 1Waikato0.10
- 2Glasgow Warriors0.37
- 3Otago0.45
- 4Leicester Tigers0.46
- 5Toulon0.47
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.