Head to head

Botswana vs Costa Rica

If they played today

Botswana at home

20% / 23% / 57%

Botswana win / draw / Costa Rica win

Botswana–Costa Rica

0–1 11.3%
1–1 10.9%
0–2 10.3%
1–2 9.9%
0–0 6.3%

Neutral venue

14% / 20% / 65%

Botswana win / draw / Costa Rica win

Botswana–Costa Rica

0–2 11.9%
0–1 11.8%
1–2 9.8%
1–1 9.7%
0–3 8.0%

Costa Rica at home

10% / 18% / 72%

Botswana win / draw / Costa Rica win

Botswana–Costa Rica

0–2 13.4%
0–1 12.1%
0–3 9.9%
1–2 9.3%
1–1 8.4%

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	Costa Rica
Current Elo	1388	1744
Elo rank	149th	51st
Peak Elo	1561 (2011)	1940 (2017)
Matches played	332	724
All-time record	90W 92D 150L	316W 178D 230L
Goals for	268	1238
Goals against	426	858
Biggest win	6–0 vs Mauritius · 2018-06-01 · COSAFA Cup	12–0 vs Puerto Rico · 1946-12-10 · Central American and Caribbean Games
Biggest loss	1–8 vs Malawi · 1968-07-13 · Friendly	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

Botswana and Costa Rica have never played each other.