Head to head

Botswana vs Northern Ireland

If they played today

Botswana at home
24% / 24% / 51%
Botswana win / draw / Northern Ireland win
Botswana–Northern Ireland
  • 1–1 11.6%
  • 0–1 10.9%
  • 1–2 9.6%
  • 0–2 9.1%
  • 1–0 7.0%
Neutral venue
18% / 22% / 59%
Botswana win / draw / Northern Ireland win
Botswana–Northern Ireland
  • 0–1 11.5%
  • 0–2 10.6%
  • 1–1 10.6%
  • 1–2 9.9%
  • 0–3 6.6%
Northern Ireland at home
13% / 20% / 67%
Botswana win / draw / Northern Ireland win
Botswana–Northern Ireland
  • 0–2 12.2%
  • 0–1 11.9%
  • 1–2 9.7%
  • 1–1 9.4%
  • 0–3 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

 BotswanaNorthern Ireland
Current Elo13881667
Elo rank149th73rd
Peak Elo1561 (2011)1758 (1986)
Matches played332707
All-time record90W 92D 150L185W 160D 362L
Goals for268741
Goals against4261296
Biggest win6–0 vs Mauritius · 2018-06-01 · COSAFA Cup7–0 vs Wales · 1930-02-01 · British Home Championship
Biggest loss1–8 vs Malawi · 1968-07-13 · Friendly0–13 vs England · 1882-02-18 · Friendly
World Cups won00
Expected World Cups0.000.04

When they've met

Botswana and Northern Ireland have never played each other.