Costa Rican women's national soccer team

Costa Rica
República de Costa Rica

Association	Federación Costarricense de Fútbol
confederacy	CONCACAF
Technical sponsor	lotto
Head coach	Amelia Valverde
Home stadium	Changing stages
FIFA code	CRC
FIFA rank	36th (1644 points) (as of August 14, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
138 games 65 wins 11 draws 62 losses
statistics
First international match Canada 6-0 Costa Rica Haiti ; April 16, 1991
Biggest win Costa Rica 14-0 Belize ( San José , Costa Rica; March 6, 2013 )
Biggest defeats Brazil 8-0 Costa Rica ( Hershey , USA ; June 23, 2000 ) Costa Rica 8-0 USA ( Louisville , USA ; June 25, 2000 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	0 ( first : 2015 )
Best results
North and Central American Championship
Participation in the finals	7 ( first : 1991 )
Best results	Two 2014
(As of October 11, 2018 )

The Costa Rican women's national soccer team represents Costa Rica in international women's soccer . The national team is subordinate to the Football Association of Costa Rica and is coached by Garabet Avedissián . The selection took part in six previous North American Championships , with second place in 2014 , the greatest success so far. Costa Rica has not yet participated in a World Cup or the Olympic Games, but was able to qualify for the 2015 World Cup in Canada for the first time by finishing second in 2014.

On March 14, 2012, the team achieved 40th place in the FIFA world rankings . After the USA, Canada and Mexico, it is the fourth strongest team in CONCACAF . In March 2013, she won a tournament in Costa Rica, in which seven Central American countries participated, with a 14-0 win against Belize in the first group game, the highest win to date.
The most successful and internationally best known player is Shirley Cruz Traña .

Tournament balance sheet

World Championship

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1991  : not qualified 1995  : did not participate 1999  : not qualified 2003  : not qualified

2007  : not qualified 2011  : not qualified 2015  : preliminary round 2019  : not qualified

North American Championship

1991  : preliminary round 1993  : not qualified 1994  : not qualified 1998  : third 2000  : preliminary round

2002  : fourth 2006  : not qualified 2010  : fourth 2014  : second 2018  : preliminary round

Olympic games

1996  : not qualified 2000  : not qualified 2004  : not qualified

2008  : not qualified 2012  : not qualified 2016  : not qualified

Pan American Games

The Costa Rican team took part three times in the women's soccer tournament of the Pan American Games, which has been held since 1999.

1999 : third 2003 : preliminary round 2007 : did not participate

2011 : preliminary round 2015 : preliminary round

See also

• National Soccer Team of Costa Rica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Women's world rankings. In: fifa.com. FIFA , August 14, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 (teams without a place and points are provisional because no more than five games have been played or the teams have been inactive for more than 18 months). 
2. ↑ Incl. a game against Martinique in the 2014 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup that is not counted by FIFA.
3. ↑ Won two games on penalties.
4. ↑ concacaf.com:CA Games Women's 2013 Costa Rica ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Homepage of the Football Association of Costa Rica
• Costa Rica on the FIFA homepage