Rating
43
Average — 29th percentile · Glicko-2 1504 ±98
Record
66-2-59
52.0% of 127 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+1.0
25.6 for, 24.6 against
Home advantage
+12.9
Points per match better at home
Attack
-0%
25.6 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+5%
24.6 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Joe Ford
- Captain
- Ernst van Rhyn
- Founded
- 1861
- League
- Premiership Rugby
- Ground
- CorpAcq Stadium
- Capacity
- 12,000
- Based in
- Barton-upon-Irwell, Salford, England
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Glasgow Warriors2026-10-17 · home27–47lost
Harlequins2026-10-11 · home28–24won
Saracens2026-10-04 · away21–17won
Bristol Rugby2026-09-26 · home24–34lost- Bristol Rugby2026-06-06 · home38–17won
Newest first, from Sale Sharks'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: 54-0 v Northampton Saints
Heaviest defeat: 7-77 v Stade Toulousain
Average — 29th percentile
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Sale Sharks. 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.
50 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.
- 1Waikato0.26
- 2Gloucester Rugby0.32
- 3Otago0.33
- 4London Irish0.37
- 5Tasman0.42
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.