Head to head

Australia vs Northern Ireland

If they played today

Australia at home

64% / 21% / 15%

Australia win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Australia–Northern Ireland

1–0 11.7%
2–0 11.6%
1–1 9.9%
2–1 9.8%
3–0 7.7%

Neutral venue

56% / 23% / 21%

Australia win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Australia–Northern Ireland

1–0 11.3%
1–1 11.0%
2–0 10.0%
2–1 9.8%
0–0 6.3%

Northern Ireland at home

48% / 25% / 27%

Australia win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Australia–Northern Ireland

1–1 11.9%
1–0 10.7%
2–1 9.4%
2–0 8.5%
0–1 7.5%

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

	Australia	Northern Ireland
Current Elo	1908	1667
Elo rank	22nd	73rd
Peak Elo	1969 (1997)	1758 (1986)
Matches played	585	707
All-time record	297W 125D 163L	185W 160D 362L
Goals for	1170	741
Goals against	622	1296
Biggest win	31–0 vs American Samoa · 2001-04-11 · FIFA World Cup qualification	7–0 vs Wales · 1930-02-01 · British Home Championship
Biggest loss	0–8 vs South Africa · 1955-09-17 · Friendly	0–13 vs England · 1882-02-18 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.09	0.04

When they've met

Meetings

Australia 0W 1D 1L

Goals

2–3

Australia first

First meeting

1–1

Drawn · 1980-06-15 · Friendly

Most recent

1–2

Northern Ireland won · 1980-06-18 · Friendly

Australia's biggest win

—

Never beaten Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland's biggest win

2–1

1980-06-18 · Friendly

Current run

Unbeaten in 2

Northern Ireland · since 1980-06-15

2 meetings

Date	Score	Venue	Competition
1980-06-18	1–2	Australia home	Friendly
1980-06-15	1–1	Australia home	Friendly