Head to head

Nigeria vs Sri Lanka

If they played today

Nigeria at home

95% / 4% / 0%

Nigeria win / draw / Sri Lanka win

Nigeria–Sri Lanka

3–0 21.1%
2–0 19.5%
4–0 17.1%
1–0 12.0%
5–0 11.1%

Neutral venue

93% / 6% / 1%

Nigeria win / draw / Sri Lanka win

Nigeria–Sri Lanka

3–0 19.5%
2–0 19.2%
4–0 14.9%
1–0 12.6%
5–0 9.0%

Sri Lanka at home

89% / 9% / 2%

Nigeria win / draw / Sri Lanka win

Nigeria–Sri Lanka

2–0 18.0%
3–0 17.0%
1–0 12.6%
4–0 12.1%
5–0 6.9%

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

	Nigeria	Sri Lanka
Current Elo	1883	1011
Elo rank	26th	202nd
Peak Elo	1896 (2006)	1489 (1952)
Matches played	661	251
All-time record	311W 192D 158L	49W 47D 155L
Goals for	1008	237
Goals against	662	576
Biggest win	10–0 vs São Tomé and Príncipe · 2022-06-13 · African Cup of Nations qualification	7–1 vs Pakistan · 2008-04-04 · AFC Challenge Cup qualification
Biggest loss	0–7 vs Ghana · 1955-10-30 · Friendly	1–12 vs German DR · 1964-01-12 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.08	0.00

When they've met

Nigeria and Sri Lanka have never played each other.