Head to head

Costa Rica vs Italy

If they played today

Costa Rica at home

31% / 26% / 43%

Costa Rica win / draw / Italy win

Costa Rica–Italy

1–1 12.3%
0–1 10.3%
1–2 8.9%
1–0 8.4%
0–2 7.5%

Neutral venue

24% / 24% / 51%

Costa Rica win / draw / Italy win

Costa Rica–Italy

1–1 11.6%
0–1 10.9%
1–2 9.6%
0–2 9.0%
1–0 7.0%

Italy at home

18% / 22% / 59%

Costa Rica win / draw / Italy win

Costa Rica–Italy

0–1 11.5%
1–1 10.6%
0–2 10.6%
1–2 9.9%
0–3 6.6%

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

	Costa Rica	Italy
Current Elo	1744	1922
Elo rank	51st	19th
Peak Elo	1940 (2017)	2140 (2021)
Matches played	724	893
All-time record	316W 178D 230L	477W 243D 173L
Goals for	1238	1565
Goals against	858	876
Biggest win	12–0 vs Puerto Rico · 1946-12-10 · Central American and Caribbean Games	10–0 vs United States · 1975-04-02 · Friendly
Biggest loss	0–7 vs Spain · 2022-11-23 · FIFA World Cup	1–7 vs Hungary · 1924-04-06 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	4
Expected World Cups	0.05	1.66

When they've met

Meetings

Costa Rica 1W 0D 1L

Goals

1–1

Costa Rica first

First meeting

0–1

Italy won · 1994-06-11 · Friendly

Most recent

1–0

Costa Rica won · 2014-06-20 · FIFA World Cup

Costa Rica's biggest win

1–0

2014-06-20 · FIFA World Cup

Italy's biggest win

1–0

1994-06-11 · Friendly

Current run

Won the last meeting

Costa Rica · since 2014-06-20

2 meetings

Date	Score	Venue	Competition
2014-06-20	1–0	Neutral	FIFA World Cup
1994-06-11	0–1	Neutral	Friendly