Head to head

Costa Rica vs Norway

If they played today

Costa Rica at home

25% / 25% / 51%

Costa Rica win / draw / Norway win

Costa Rica–Norway

1–1 11.7%
0–1 10.9%
1–2 9.6%
0–2 8.9%
1–0 7.1%

Neutral venue

19% / 23% / 59%

Costa Rica win / draw / Norway win

Costa Rica–Norway

0–1 11.4%
1–1 10.7%
0–2 10.5%
1–2 9.9%
0–3 6.4%

Norway at home

14% / 20% / 66%

Costa Rica win / draw / Norway win

Costa Rica–Norway

0–2 12.1%
0–1 11.8%
1–2 9.7%
1–1 9.6%
0–3 8.2%

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	Norway
Current Elo	1744	2014
Elo rank	51st	11th
Peak Elo	1940 (2017)	2034 (2026)
Matches played	724	878
All-time record	316W 178D 230L	332W 196D 350L
Goals for	1238	1364
Goals against	858	1427
Biggest win	12–0 vs Puerto Rico · 1946-12-10 · Central American and Caribbean Games	12–0 vs Finland · 1946-06-28 · Friendly
Biggest loss	0–7 vs Spain · 2022-11-23 · FIFA World Cup	0–12 vs Denmark · 1917-10-07 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.05	0.11

When they've met

Meetings

Costa Rica 0W 1D 1L

Goals

0–1

Costa Rica first

First meeting

0–0

Drawn · 1994-01-19 · Friendly

Most recent

0–1

Norway won · 2005-05-24 · Friendly

Costa Rica's biggest win

—

Never beaten Norway

Norway's biggest win

1–0

2005-05-24 · Friendly

Current run

Unbeaten in 2

Norway · since 1994-01-19

2 meetings

Date	Score	Venue	Competition
2005-05-24	0–1	Norway home	Friendly
1994-01-19	0–0	Neutral	Friendly