Rating
38
Average — 35th percentile · Glicko-2 1150 ±84
Record
8-1-9
44.4% of 18 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-2.0
22.7 for, 24.7 against
Home advantage
+9.6
Points per match better at home
Attack
-11%
22.7 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+11%
24.7 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Tusi Pisi
- Captain
- Theo McFarland
- Union
- Rugby Samoa
- Emblem
- Southern cross
- Home ground
- Apia Park
- First match
- Western Samoa 0–6 (Apia, Samoa; 18 August 1924)
- Most caps
- Brian Lima (67)
- Leading scorer
- Tusi Pisi (245)
- Most tries
- Brian Lima (29)
- World Cups
- 9, from 1991
- Best World Cup
- Quarterfinals (1991, 1995)
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Chile2025-09-27 · away12–31lost- Chile2025-09-20 · home32–32drew
Scotland2025-07-18 · home12–41lost
USA2024-09-2118–13won
Japan2024-09-15 · away27–49lost
Newest first, from Samoa'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: 43-10 v Chile
Heaviest defeat: 17-49 v Italy
Average — 35th percentile
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Samoa. 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 67% of the variation between teams. Component 1 (45%) rises with more average margin, less points conceded. Component 2 (22%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
9 of 45 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.