Rating
65
Strong — top 22% · Glicko-2 1566 ±87
Record
25-1-19
55.6% of 45 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+1.0
29.8 for, 28.8 against
Home advantage
-1.7
Points per match better at home
Attack
+13%
29.8 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-5%
28.8 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Pablo Bouza
- Captain
- Fernando López
- Union
- Spanish Rugby Federation
- Emblem
- Lion
- Home ground
- Estadio Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- First match
- 1874 9–0 (Barcelona, Spain; 20 May 1929)
- Most caps
- Francisco Puertas (93)
- Leading scorer
- Esteban Roqué (285)
- Most tries
- César Sempere (31)
- World Cups
- 2, from 1999
- Best World Cup
- Pool stage (1999)
Anthem
Himno Nacional EspañolNational Anthem of Spain
Spanish · September 3, 1770 · 1:02
This anthem has no official words.
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.
USA2026-07-18 · away22–29lost
Tonga2026-07-1132–19won
Canada2026-07-04 · away42–42drew
Romania2026-03-15 · home29–23won
Portugal2026-03-08 · away7–26lost
Newest first, from Spain'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: 52-7 v Netherlands
Heaviest defeat: 3-62 v Argentina
Strong — top 22%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Spain. 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.
- 1Chile0.43
- 2Fiji0.46
- 3Luxembourg0.47
- 4Poland0.51
- 5Argentina0.62
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.