Rating
62
Above average — top 29% · Glicko-2 1454 ±88
Record
11-0-23
32.4% of 34 matches in the last five years
Average margin
-10.6
22.0 for, 32.6 against
Home advantage
+31.8
Points per match better at home
Attack
-16%
22.0 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
-19%
32.6 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Tevita Tuʻifua
- Captain
- Ben Tameifuna
- Union
- Tonga Rugby Union
- Emblem
- White dove
- Home ground
- Teufaiva Sport Stadium
- First match
- TGA 9–6 (Nukuʻalofa, Tonga; 25 August 1924)
- Most caps
- Sonatane Takulua (58)
- Leading scorer
- Kurt Morath (340)
- Most tries
- Fetuʻu Vainikolo & Sonatane Takulua (17)
- World Cups
- 9, from 1987
- Best World Cup
- Pool stage (1987, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023)
Anthem
Ko e fasi ʻo e tuʻi ʻo e ʻOtu TongaSong of the King of the Tonga Islands
Tongan · 1874 (possibly 1875) · 0:59
The words may still be in copyright — no death year could be established for the author — 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.
Portugal2026-07-1828–32lost
Spain2026-07-1119–32lost
Zimbabwe2026-07-0436–26won
Scotland2025-11-22 · away0–56lost
Canada2025-09-2035–24won
Newest first, from Tonga'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: 40-6 v Spain
Heaviest defeat: 3-69 v England
Above average — top 29%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Tonga. 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.
30 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.
- 1Netherlands0.48
- 2Romania0.55
- 3Lithuania0.78
- 4Canada0.91
- 5Korea0.95
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.