Head to head

Nigeria vs United Arab Emirates

If they played today

Nigeria at home

62% / 21% / 16%

Nigeria win / draw / United Arab Emirates win

Nigeria–United Arab Emirates

1–0 11.6%
2–0 11.2%
1–1 10.2%
2–1 9.9%
3–0 7.2%

Neutral venue

54% / 24% / 22%

Nigeria win / draw / United Arab Emirates win

Nigeria–United Arab Emirates

1–1 11.3%
1–0 11.1%
2–1 9.8%
2–0 9.7%
0–1 6.5%

United Arab Emirates at home

46% / 25% / 28%

Nigeria win / draw / United Arab Emirates win

Nigeria–United Arab Emirates

1–1 12.1%
1–0 10.5%
2–1 9.2%
2–0 8.1%
0–1 7.9%

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	United Arab Emirates
Current Elo	1883	1666
Elo rank	26th	74th
Peak Elo	1896 (2006)	1783 (2015)
Matches played	661	612
All-time record	311W 192D 158L	246W 152D 214L
Goals for	1008	867
Goals against	662	760
Biggest win	10–0 vs São Tomé and Príncipe · 2022-06-13 · African Cup of Nations qualification	12–0 vs Brunei · 2001-04-14 · FIFA World Cup qualification
Biggest loss	0–7 vs Ghana · 1955-10-30 · Friendly	0–8 vs Brazil · 2005-11-12 · Friendly
World Cups won	0	0
Expected World Cups	0.08	<0.01

When they've met

Nigeria and United Arab Emirates have never played each other.