Head to head

Cook Islands vs Papua New Guinea

If they played today

Cook Islands at home

22% / 24% / 54%

Cook Islands win / draw / Papua New Guinea win

Cook Islands–Papua New Guinea

1–1 11.3%
0–1 11.1%
1–2 9.7%
0–2 9.6%
1–0 6.6%

Neutral venue

17% / 22% / 62%

Cook Islands win / draw / Papua New Guinea win

Cook Islands–Papua New Guinea

0–1 11.6%
0–2 11.2%
1–1 10.3%
1–2 9.9%
0–3 7.2%

Papua New Guinea at home

12% / 19% / 69%

Cook Islands win / draw / Papua New Guinea win

Cook Islands–Papua New Guinea

0–2 12.7%
0–1 12.0%
1–2 9.6%
0–3 9.0%
1–1 9.0%

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	Papua New Guinea
Current Elo	1131	1443
Elo rank	189th	133rd
Peak Elo	1444 (1971)	1553 (1989)
Matches played	53	155
All-time record	11W 4D 38L	52W 29D 74L
Goals for	43	336
Goals against	264	312
Biggest win	4–1 vs Tuvalu · 2007-09-01 · South Pacific Games	20–0 vs American Samoa · 1987-12-15 · South Pacific Games
Biggest loss	0–30 vs Tahiti · 1971-09-13 · South Pacific Games	0–10 vs Malaysia · 2023-06-20 · Friendly
Neither team has qualified for a World Cup
OFC Nations Cups won	0	0
Expected OFC Nations Cups	0.03	0.29

When they've met

Meetings

Cook Islands 0W 0D 3L

Goals

1–23

Cook Islands first

First meeting

1–16

Papua New Guinea won · 1971-09-11 · South Pacific Games

Most recent

0–3

Papua New Guinea won · 2023-11-27 · Pacific Games

Cook Islands' biggest win

—

Never beaten Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea's biggest win

16–1

1971-09-11 · South Pacific Games

Current run

Won last 3

Papua New Guinea · since 1971-09-11

3 meetings

Date	Score	Venue	Competition
2023-11-27	0–3	Neutral	Pacific Games
2011-08-27	0–4	Neutral	Pacific Games
1971-09-11	1–16	Neutral	South Pacific Games