Rating
Unranked
Too few matches to place · Glicko-2 2106 ±167
Record
10-0-4
71.4% of 14 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+3.9
29.9 for, 26.0 against
Home advantage
-10.4
Points per match better at home
- Head coach
- ENG Alex Laybourne
- Captain
- Philip Murphy
- Union
- Svenska Rugbyförbundet
- First match
- Sweden 6–0 Denmark (23 October 1949)
- Leading scorer
- Axel Kalling-Smith (23)
- World Cups
- 0
From Wikipedia, read 2026-08-20. Not an input to any forecast — the rating does not know who is coaching.
- Poland2025-04-12 · home25–29lost
- Luxembourg2025-03-29 · away57–18won
- Croatia2024-11-16 · away42–31won
- Lithuania2024-11-02 · away46–19won
- Czechia2024-10-26 · home22–16won
Newest first, from Sweden'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: 57-18 v Luxembourg
Heaviest defeat: 12-69 v Switzerland
Too few matches on record to place Sweden against the field. The rating is real; it could move a long way on one result.
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.
10 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.