Rating
57
Above average — top 32% · Glicko-2 1293 ±95
Record
11-0-6
64.7% of 17 matches in the last five years
Average margin
+6.2
27.5 for, 21.2 against
Home advantage
+2.3
Points per match better at home
Attack
+5%
27.5 scored per match, against the placed field's average
Defence
+23%
21.2 conceded per match; positive is fewer than average
- Head coach
- Pieter Benade
- Captain
- Hilton Mudariki
- Union
- Zimbabwe Rugby Union
- Emblem
- Sable antelope
- Home ground
- Harare Sports Club
- First match
- Southern Rhodesia 11–24 British Isles (Bulawayo, Rhodesia; 30 July 1910)}}
- World Cups
- 3, from 1987
- Best World Cup
- Pool stage (1987, 1991)
Anthem
Kalibusiswe Ilizwe leZimbabwe
Ndebele · April 18, 1994 · 1:37
The words are still in copyright, 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.
Canada2026-07-18 · away19–23lost
USA2026-07-11 · away15–31lost
Tonga2026-07-0426–36lost
Namibia2025-07-1930–28won- Kenya2025-07-1329–23won
Newest first, from Zimbabwe'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: 62-22 v United Arab Emirates
Heaviest defeat: 10-41 v Namibia
Above average — top 32%
Box is the middle half of the ranked field, line is the median, dot is Zimbabwe. 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.
31 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.
Distance in the projection above, nearest first.