Head to head

New Zealand vs Zambia

If they played today

New Zealand at home

56% / 23% / 21%

New Zealand win / draw / Zambia win

New Zealand–Zambia

1–0 11.3%
1–1 11.1%
2–0 10.0%
2–1 9.8%
0–0 6.3%

Neutral venue

48% / 25% / 27%

New Zealand win / draw / Zambia win

New Zealand–Zambia

1–1 11.9%
1–0 10.7%
2–1 9.4%
2–0 8.4%
0–1 7.6%

Zambia at home

40% / 26% / 34%

New Zealand win / draw / Zambia win

New Zealand–Zambia

1–1 12.4%
1–0 10.0%
0–1 9.0%
2–1 8.6%
1–2 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	Zambia
Current Elo	1689	1551
Elo rank	68th	94th
Peak Elo	1825 (2025)	1799 (1994)
Matches played	419	793
All-time record	172W 74D 173L	358W 203D 232L
Goals for	733	1234
Goals against	634	851
Biggest win	13–0 vs Fiji · 1981-08-16 · FIFA World Cup qualification	11–2 vs Eswatini · 1978-02-05 · Friendly
Biggest loss	0–10 vs Australia · 1936-07-11 · Soccer Ashes	1–10 vs DR Congo · 1969-11-22 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.02	0.00

When they've met

New Zealand and Zambia have never played each other.