Head to head

New Zealand vs Nicaragua

If they played today

New Zealand at home

61% / 22% / 17%

New Zealand win / draw / Nicaragua win

New Zealand–Nicaragua

1–0 11.5%
2–0 10.9%
1–1 10.4%
2–1 9.9%
3–0 6.9%

Neutral venue

53% / 24% / 23%

New Zealand win / draw / Nicaragua win

New Zealand–Nicaragua

1–1 11.4%
1–0 11.0%
2–1 9.7%
2–0 9.4%
0–1 6.7%

Nicaragua at home

45% / 26% / 30%

New Zealand win / draw / Nicaragua win

New Zealand–Nicaragua

1–1 12.2%
1–0 10.4%
2–1 9.1%
0–1 8.1%
2–0 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

	New Zealand	Nicaragua
Current Elo	1689	1491
Elo rank	68th	115th
Peak Elo	1825 (2025)	1539 (2024)
Matches played	419	222
All-time record	172W 74D 173L	51W 27D 144L
Goals for	733	234
Goals against	634	534
Biggest win	13–0 vs Fiji · 1981-08-16 · FIFA World Cup qualification	7–0 vs Turks and Caicos Islands · 2021-03-27 · FIFA World Cup qualification
Biggest loss	0–10 vs Australia · 1936-07-11 · Soccer Ashes	0–10 vs Honduras · 1946-03-13 · CCCF Championship
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.02	0.00

When they've met

New Zealand and Nicaragua have never played each other.