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Wales

Five years of results, read from this team's own point of view.

Rating

73

Strong — top 14% · Glicko-2 1868 ±76

Record

15-0-44

25.4% of 59 matches in the last five years

Average margin

-11.0

19.9 for, 30.9 against

Home advantage

+0.7

Points per match better at home

Attack

-24%

19.9 scored per match, against the placed field's average

Defence

-13%

30.9 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average

About the team
Head coach
Steve Tandy
Captain
Dewi Lake
Union
Welsh Rugby Union
Emblem
Three feathers
Home ground
Principality Stadium
First match
England 8–0 Wales (Blackheath, England; 19 February 1881)
Most caps
Alun Wyn Jones (158)
Leading scorer
Neil Jenkins (1,049)
Most tries
Shane Williams (58)
World Cups
10, from 1987
Best World Cup
Third place (1987)

Anthem

Hen Wlad fy NhadauLand of my Fathers

Welsh · 1858 · 2:53

Hen Wlad fy Nhadau is Wales's anthem by use rather than by statute.

Words
Welsh lyrics 1. Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i mi Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri Ei gwrol rhyfelwyr, gwlad garwyr tra mad Tros ryddid collasant eu gwaed. CHORUS: Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i’m gwlad Tra mor yn fur I’r bur hoff bau O bydded i’r heniaith barhau. 2. Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i’m golwg sydd hardd Trwy deimlad gwladgarol, mor swynol yw si Ei nentydd, afonydd, i mi. Chorus 3. Os treisiodd y gelyn fy ngwlad dan ei droed Mae hen iaith y Cymry mor fyw ag erioed Ni luddiwyd yr awen gan erchyll law brad Na thelyn berseiniol fy ngwlad. Chorus English translation 1. The old land of my fathers is dear to me, Land of poets and singers, famous men of renown; Her brave warriors, very splendid patriots, For freedom shed their blood. CHORUS: Nation, nation, I am faithful to my nation. While the sea [is] a wall to the pure, most loved land, O may the old language endure. 2. Old mountainous Wales, paradise of the bard, Every valley, every cliff, to me is beautiful. Through patriotic feeling, so charming is the murmur Of her brooks, rivers, to me. Chorus 3. If the enemy oppresses my land under his foot, The old language of the Welsh is as alive as ever. The muse is not hindered by the hideous hand of treason, Nor is the melodious harp of my country. Chorus

Recording and words 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.

Recent results

Newest first, from Wales'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.

Shape
Matches decided by seven or fewer37%
Matches totalling 50 or more44%
Margin swing20.0 points
Last five, most recent firstlostlostwonwonlostL2

Biggest win: 40-6 v Australia

Heaviest defeat: 0-73 v South Africa

Where they stand (of 65 ranked teams)
Rating73
1Q1 32Med 49Q3 6492

Strong — top 14%

Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Wales. The scale is this domain's own and does not compare across the two.

Most similar teams
Teams with too few matches to rate confidently, which are most of the outliers.

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.

  1. 1Cote D'Ivoire0.47
  2. 2Bosnia & Herzegovina1.06
  3. 3Australia1.13
  4. 4Turkey1.20
  5. 5Israel1.27

Distance in the projection above, nearest first.

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