Head to head

Botswana vs Burkina Faso

If they played today

Botswana at home

25% / 25% / 50%

Botswana win / draw / Burkina Faso win

Botswana–Burkina Faso

1–1 11.7%
0–1 10.8%
1–2 9.5%
0–2 8.8%
1–0 7.2%

Neutral venue

19% / 23% / 58%

Botswana win / draw / Burkina Faso win

Botswana–Burkina Faso

0–1 11.4%
1–1 10.8%
0–2 10.4%
1–2 9.9%
0–3 6.4%

Burkina Faso at home

14% / 20% / 66%

Botswana win / draw / Burkina Faso win

Botswana–Burkina Faso

0–2 12.0%
0–1 11.8%
1–2 9.8%
1–1 9.6%
0–3 8.1%

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

	Botswana	Burkina Faso
Current Elo	1388	1653
Elo rank	149th	78th
Peak Elo	1561 (2011)	1726 (2017)
Matches played	332	464
All-time record	90W 92D 150L	164W 123D 177L
Goals for	268	580
Goals against	426	617
Biggest win	6–0 vs Mauritius · 2018-06-01 · COSAFA Cup	6–0 vs Djibouti · 2025-09-05 · FIFA World Cup qualification
Biggest loss	1–8 vs Malawi · 1968-07-13 · Friendly	0–7 vs Algeria · 1981-08-30 · African Cup of Nations qualification
Neither team has qualified for a World Cup
African Cup of Nations won	0	0
Expected African Cup of Nations	0.02	0.40

When they've met

Meetings

Botswana 2W 1D 3L

Goals

3–7

Botswana first

First meeting

1–0

Botswana won · 2013-09-30 · Friendly

Most recent

0–0

Drawn · 2018-10-16 · African Cup of Nations qualification

Botswana's biggest win

1–0

2015-09-05 · African Cup of Nations qualification

Burkina Faso's biggest win

3–0

2018-10-13 · African Cup of Nations qualification

Most common result

1–0

Botswana first · twice, last 2015-09-05

Current run

Unbeaten in 3

Burkina Faso · since 2016-09-04

6 meetings

Date	Score	Venue	Competition
2018-10-16	0–0	Botswana home	African Cup of Nations qualification
2018-10-13	0–3	Burkina Faso home	African Cup of Nations qualification
2016-09-04	1–2	Burkina Faso home	African Cup of Nations qualification
2015-09-05	1–0	Botswana home	African Cup of Nations qualification
2015-01-13	0–2	Neutral	Friendly
2013-09-30	1–0	Botswana home	Friendly