Head to head

Cook Islands vs Japan

If they played today

Cook Islands at home

2% / 9% / 88%

Cook Islands win / draw / Japan win

Cook Islands–Japan

0–2 17.6%
0–3 16.3%
0–1 12.6%
0–4 11.3%
0–5 6.3%

Neutral venue

1% / 7% / 92%

Cook Islands win / draw / Japan win

Cook Islands–Japan

0–2 18.9%
0–3 18.8%
0–4 14.0%
0–1 12.6%
0–5 8.4%

Japan at home

0% / 5% / 95%

Cook Islands win / draw / Japan win

Cook Islands–Japan

0–3 21.2%
0–2 20.0%
0–4 16.9%
0–1 12.5%
0–5 10.7%

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

	Cook Islands	Japan
Current Elo	1131	1973
Elo rank	189th	15th
Peak Elo	1444 (1971)	2012 (2026)
Matches played	53	794
All-time record	11W 4D 38L	391W 167D 236L
Goals for	43	1451
Goals against	264	915
Biggest win	4–1 vs Tuvalu · 2007-09-01 · South Pacific Games	14–0 vs Mongolia · 2021-03-30 · FIFA World Cup qualification
Biggest loss	0–30 vs Tahiti · 1971-09-13 · South Pacific Games	2–15 vs Philippines · 1917-05-10 · Far Eastern Championship Games
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.00	0.16

When they've met

Cook Islands and Japan have never played each other.