Rating
63
Strong — top 17% · Glicko-2 1845 ±97
Record
77-4-39
64.2% of 120 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+6.2
27.3 for, 21.1 against
Home advantage
+14.9
Points per match better at home
Attack
+7%
27.3 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+18%
21.1 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- John Dobson (URC & ERCC)
- Captain
- Ruhan Nel (URC & ERCC)
- Founded
- 1883
- League
- United Rugby Championship
- Ground
- Main Ground: DHL Stadium (capacity 55,000)
- Based in
- Cape Town, South Africa
From Wikipedia, read 2026-10-19. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
Bristol Rugby2026-10-17 · home49–12won
Sharks2026-10-10 · home39–22won
Edinburgh2026-10-02 · away13–17lost
Connacht2026-09-25 · away29–15won
Leinster2026-06-06 · away11–20lost
Newest first, from Stormers'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: 56-5 v Benetton Treviso
Heaviest defeat: 10-61 v Harlequins
Strong — top 17%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Stormers. 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.
52 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.
- 1La Rochelle0.54
- 2Bordeaux Begles0.75
- 3Glasgow Warriors0.77
- 4Montpellier Herault0.84
- 5Toulon0.89
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.