Head to head

Lesotho vs Northern Ireland

If they played today

Lesotho at home

26% / 25% / 49%

Lesotho win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Lesotho–Northern Ireland

1–1 11.8%
0–1 10.7%
1–2 9.5%
0–2 8.6%
1–0 7.4%

Neutral venue

20% / 23% / 57%

Lesotho win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Lesotho–Northern Ireland

0–1 11.3%
1–1 11.0%
0–2 10.2%
1–2 9.8%
0–0 6.3%

Northern Ireland at home

15% / 21% / 64%

Lesotho win / draw / Northern Ireland win

Lesotho–Northern Ireland

0–1 11.8%
0–2 11.7%
1–1 9.8%
1–2 9.8%
0–3 7.8%

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

	Lesotho	Northern Ireland
Current Elo	1419	1667
Elo rank	143rd	73rd
Peak Elo	1509 (1970)	1758 (1986)
Matches played	296	707
All-time record	54W 94D 148L	185W 160D 362L
Goals for	230	741
Goals against	466	1296
Biggest win	5–0 vs Eswatini · 2006-04-14 · Friendly	7–0 vs Wales · 1930-02-01 · British Home Championship
Biggest loss	0–7 vs Morocco · 2024-11-18 · African Cup of Nations qualification	0–13 vs England · 1882-02-18 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.00	0.04

When they've met

Lesotho and Northern Ireland have never played each other.