Rating
83
Elite — top 8% of the field · Glicko-2 2193 ±73
Record
35-0-26
57.4% of 61 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+9.0
30.4 for, 21.5 against
Home advantage
+11.2
Points per match better at home
Attack
+16%
30.4 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+21%
21.5 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Gregor Townsend
- Captain
- Sione Tuipulotu
- Union
- Scottish Rugby Union
- Emblem
- Thistle
- Home ground
- Murrayfield Stadium
- First match
- Scotland 1–0 (Edinburgh, Scotland; 27 March 1871)
- Most caps
- Ross Ford (110)
- Leading scorer
- Chris Paterson (809)
- Most tries
- Darcy Graham (38)
- World Cups
- 10, from 1987
- Best World Cup
- Fourth place (1991)
Anthem
Fhlùir na h-Alba
Scottish Gaelic · 1974 · 1:20
Flower of Scotland is sung rather than God Save the King, and is the country's anthem by use rather than by statute.
The words are still in copyright, so they are not reproduced here.
Recording from nationalanthems.info, used under CC BY 4.0.
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Fiji2026-07-18 · away33–17won
South Africa2026-07-11 · away28–42lost
Argentina2026-07-04 · away47–38won
Ireland2026-03-14 · away21–43lost
France2026-03-07 · home50–40won
Newest first, from Scotland'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: 85-0 v USA
Heaviest defeat: 14-36 v Ireland
Elite — top 8% of the field
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Scotland. 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 (42%) rises with more average margin and win rate. Component 2 (30%) rises with more high-scoring matches and margin swing.
29 of 66 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.