Rating
53
Above average — top 49% · Glicko-2 1558 ±92
Record
64-3-59
50.8% of 126 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+0.9
25.5 for, 24.6 against
Home advantage
+12.9
Points per match better at home
Attack
+0%
25.5 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+7%
24.6 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Marco Bortolami
- 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 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Bristol Rugby2026-06-06 · home38–17won
Newcastle Falcons2026-05-30 · away42–45lost
Leicester Tigers2026-05-17 · home33–47lost
Gloucester Rugby2026-05-08 · away15–21lost
Harlequins2026-04-25 · away52–33won
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
Above average — top 49%
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 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.
- 1London Irish0.16
- 2Queensland Reds0.17
- 3Harlequins0.41
- 4Lions0.54
- 5Connacht0.55
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.