Head to head

Afghanistan vs Costa Rica

If they played today

Afghanistan at home

10% / 17% / 73%

Afghanistan win / draw / Costa Rica win

Afghanistan–Costa Rica

0–2 13.6%
0–1 12.2%
0–3 10.2%
1–2 9.2%
1–1 8.2%

Neutral venue

6% / 14% / 79%

Afghanistan win / draw / Costa Rica win

Afghanistan–Costa Rica

0–2 15.1%
0–1 12.4%
0–3 12.3%
1–2 8.2%
0–4 7.5%

Costa Rica at home

4% / 11% / 85%

Afghanistan win / draw / Costa Rica win

Afghanistan–Costa Rica

0–2 16.6%
0–3 14.6%
0–1 12.5%
0–4 9.6%
1–2 6.7%

Probabilities come from each team's current Elo rating, so they answer “if they met today” rather than predicting a scheduled fixture. See the methodology for how the model works and where it is weakest.

Elo since debut

Side by side

	Afghanistan	Costa Rica
Current Elo	1173	1744
Elo rank	184th	51st
Peak Elo	1481 (1941)	1940 (2017)
Matches played	147	724
All-time record	36W 34D 77L	316W 178D 230L
Goals for	142	1238
Goals against	293	858
Biggest win	8–1 vs Bhutan · 2011-12-07 · SAFF Cup	12–0 vs Puerto Rico · 1946-12-10 · Central American and Caribbean Games
Biggest loss	0–11 vs Turkmenistan · 2003-11-19 · FIFA World Cup qualification	0–7 vs Spain · 2022-11-23 · FIFA World Cup
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.00	0.05

When they've met

Afghanistan and Costa Rica have never played each other.