Head to head

Costa Rica vs Northern Ireland

If they played today

Costa Rica at home

51% / 24% / 24%

Costa Rica win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Costa Rica–Northern Ireland

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

Neutral venue

43% / 26% / 31%

Costa Rica win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Costa Rica–Northern Ireland

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

Northern Ireland at home

35% / 26% / 39%

Costa Rica win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Costa Rica–Northern Ireland

1–1 12.5%
0–1 9.8%
1–0 9.3%
1–2 8.4%
2–1 7.9%

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	Northern Ireland
Current Elo	1744	1667
Elo rank	51st	73rd
Peak Elo	1940 (2017)	1758 (1986)
Matches played	724	707
All-time record	316W 178D 230L	185W 160D 362L
Goals for	1238	741
Goals against	858	1296
Biggest win	12–0 vs Puerto Rico · 1946-12-10 · Central American and Caribbean Games	7–0 vs Wales · 1930-02-01 · British Home Championship
Biggest loss	0–7 vs Spain · 2022-11-23 · FIFA World Cup	0–13 vs England · 1882-02-18 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.05	0.04

When they've met

Meetings

Costa Rica 1W 0D 0L

Goals

3–0

Costa Rica first

First meeting

3–0

Costa Rica won · 2018-06-03 · Friendly

Most recent

3–0

Costa Rica won · 2018-06-03 · Friendly

1 meeting

Date	Score	Venue	Competition
2018-06-03	3–0	Costa Rica home	Friendly