Costa Rican national soccer team

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Costa Rica
República de Costa Rica
FA Costarricense.svg
Nickname (s) Los Ticos
Association Federación Costarricense de Fútbol
confederacy CONCACAF
Technical sponsor New Balance
Head coach Costa RicaCosta Rica Rónald González (since 2019)
Assistant coach Costa RicaCosta Rica Douglas Sequeira
captain Bryan Ruiz
Record scorer Rolando Fonseca (47)
Record player Walter Centeno (137)
Home stadium Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica
FIFA code CRC
FIFA rank 46th (1439 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey
Second jersey
Third jersey
Balance sheet
683 games
316 wins
158 draws
209 losses
statistics
First international match Costa Rica 7-0 El Salvador ( Guatemala City , Guatemala ; September 14, 1921 )
Costa RicaCosta Rica El SalvadorEl Salvador
Biggest win Costa Rica 12-0 Puerto Rico ( Colombia ; December 10, 1946 )
Costa RicaCosta Rica Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
Biggest defeat Mexico 7-0 Costa Rica ( Mexico City , Mexico ; August 17 and October 23, 1975 )
MexicoMexico Costa RicaCosta Rica
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals 5 ( first : 1990 )
Best results Quarterfinals 2014
North and Central American Championship
Participation in the finals 20 ( first : 1963 )
Best results Winner 1963, 1969, 1989
South American Championship
Participation in the finals 5 ( first: 1997 )
Best results Quarterfinals 2001 , 2004
(As of February 1, 2020)

The Costa Rican national soccer team , also known as Los Ticos , is the selection team of the Federación Costarricense de Fútbol . The team from the Central American state of Costa Rica has so far qualified for the five soccer world championships in 1990 , 2002 , 2006 , 2014 and 2018 . In 1990 she reached the second round in a group with Brazil in the preliminary round as second behind Brazil , while in 2002 she was eliminated in a group with Brazil in the preliminary round only because of the worse goal difference with Turkey . In 2006 Costa Rica had to return home early after zero points from three games. In 2014 , the greatest success in a World Cup was achieved with the quarter-finals. The Costa Rican national soccer team was eliminated in the preliminary round in 2018 with one point from a draw.

Participation in world championships

1990 World Cup in Italy

The 1990 World Cup in Italy was the first in which the Costa Rican national team participated. At the same time, reaching the round of 16 after victories against Sweden (2-1) and Scotland (1-0) up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was the greatest success the national team has ever achieved. In the second round, Costa Rica lost 4-1 to the ČSFR and was eliminated from the tournament.

2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan

The 2002 World Cup meant the Costa Rican national team's second participation in the World Cup. In the opening game, the Costa Ricans defeated China 2-0, which initially brought the group C to the top of the table, as Brazil had only defeated Turkey 2-1 the day before . In the second game Costa Rica separated from later third Turkey with 1: 1.

Since Brazil had defeated China 4-0 the day before, Costa Rica needed at least one draw in the last group game to advance safely. The game against the eventual group winners and world champions Brazil, who at the time had already qualified for the round of 16, was lost 2-5. As Turkey won their game against China 3-0 at the same time, Costa Rica was eliminated as third in Group C due to the poorer goal difference.

World Cup 2006 in Germany

The qualification for the World Cup in 2006 was very difficult and mixed for Costa Rica. The national team was only just able to prevail against Cuba in the first round . This was followed in the second round after starting the group stage with two defeats, winning the group with 10 out of 18 possible points. The qualification then succeeded in the third round in the group with the last remaining six teams by third place and 16 out of 30 possible points.

Costa Rica played in the first game of the World Cup finals, the opening game, on June 9, 2006 in Munich against the German national soccer team and lost this game 2: 4. Costa Rica were able to take advantage of the few scoring opportunities (both goals scored by Paulo Wanchope ), but otherwise, especially in the early stages of the game, only found themselves in front of their own goal.

The next group game against Ecuador was also lost 3-0. Costa Rica fell behind early on, while they were unable to develop their own game. This defeat meant the early elimination of Costa Rica, which was now six points behind the group runners-up Germany.

The last, meaningless game against the also eliminated Poland was lost 1: 2. After the preliminary round, Costa Rica was eliminated from the tournament as fourth and thus bottom of group A with six points behind the second place qualifying for the round of 16 (3 games, 3 defeats, 3: 9 goals, 0 points).

World Cup 2010 in South Africa

As part of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , the team met Grenada in the second round of the CONCACAF zone . The first leg in St. George’s ( Grenada ) ended 2-2, the second leg took place on June 21 in San José and was won 3-0. Thus Costa Rica moved into the third round. Here the team met Haiti , El Salvador and Suriname . The group was confidently finished in first place with 18 out of 18 possible points. Costa Rica won all games and achieved a goal difference of 20: 3. The highlight was the 7-0 win against Suriname in San José on September 6, 2008.

On February 11, 2009, the Costa Rican national team started the fourth and final round, in which they met Honduras , El Salvador , Trinidad & Tobago , USA and Mexico . There Costa Rica finished fourth due to the worse goal difference compared to Honduras and met Uruguay in two relegation games . Costa Rica lost 1-0 in the first leg, but only scored 1-1 in the second leg and thus did not qualify for the World Cup.

2014 World Cup in Brazil

On September 10, 2013, Costa Rica qualified early for the 2014 World Cup . Opponents on the way to Brazil were Honduras , Jamaica , Mexico , Panama and the USA . In the group stage of the finals, Costa Rica met Uruguay in the first game, which they defeated 3-1. The Costa Rican selection won against Italy 1-0 and thus reached the second round for the first time since 1990; thanks to a 0-0 win in the last game of the group stage against England , they even won the group.

On June 29, Costa Rica played Greece for the first time in the round of 16 . Costa Rica went first by Bryan Ruiz after 52 minutes with a 1: 0 lead, played by a yellow-red card against Óscar Duarte after 66 minutes with ten men and had in injury time to 1: 1 compensation by Sokratis accept . After goalless extra time , Costa Rica won 5-3 on penalties. The selection is now in the quarter-finals of the tournament, where it met the Netherlands on July 5, 2014 . After it was still 0-0 after 120 minutes, it went to penalties, in which Ruiz and Umaña each missed. Thus, the Netherlands moved into the semi-finals against Argentina. The qualification for the round of the best eight meant the most successful result in a world championship finals in Costa Rica's history.

World Cup 2018 in Russia

In qualifying, Costa Rica was seeded for the fourth round of the North, Central America and Caribbean Confederation. With five wins and one draw, the Ticos won Group B. In the fifth round, the team finished second behind Mexico with four wins, four draws and two defeats , thus qualifying for the 2018 World Cup . In the preliminary round, Costa Rica will meet Brazil again, as well as Switzerland and Serbia .

Tournaments

World Championship

year Host country Participation until ... Last opponent Result Trainer Comments and special features
1930 Uruguay not participated
1934 Italy not participated
1938 France not participated
1950 Brazil not participated
1954 Switzerland logged in too late Registration refused by FIFA
1958 Sweden not qualified In the qualification in the second round at Mexico failed
1962 Chile not qualified In the qualification in the second round at Mexico failed
1966 England not qualified In the qualification in the second round at Mexico failed.
1970 Mexico not qualified In the qualifiers in the first round of Honduras failed.
1974 Germany not qualified In the qualifiers in the first round of Honduras failed.
1978 Argentina not qualified Failed in the first round of qualification to Guatemala and El Salvador .
1982 Spain not qualified In the qualifiers in the first round of Honduras and El Salvador failed.
1986 Mexico not qualified In the qualification in the final round to Canada failed.
1990 Italy Round of 16 ČSSR 13. Bora Milutinović In the preliminary round wins against Sweden and Scotland and one defeat against Brazil
1994 United States not qualified In the qualification in the second round, Mexico and Honduras failed, which also failed to qualify.
1998 France not qualified In the qualification in the final round to Jamaica , Mexico and the USA failed.
2002 South Korea / Japan Preliminary round Brazil , China , Turkey 19th Alexandre Guimarães A win against China, a loss against Brazil and a draw against Turkey
2006 Germany Preliminary round Germany , Ecuador , Poland 31. Alexandre Guimarães Opening game against hosts Germany (2: 4), 0: 3 against Ecuador and 1: 2 against Poland
2010 South Africa not qualified In the qualification in the intercontinental playoff against Uruguay failed.
2014 Brazil Quarter finals Netherlands 8th. Jorge Luis Pinto Qualified as the second CONCACAF team on September 10, 2013. In the group stage of the finals, Costa Rica met England, Uruguay and Italy for the first time at a World Cup. Costa Rica moved into the round of 16 as the winners of Group D. There you won against Greece on penalties. In the quarter-finals there was also a penalty shoot-out, which, unlike in the round of 16, was lost to the Netherlands.
2018 Russia Preliminary round Brazil , Switzerland , Serbia Óscar Ramírez Qualified as the second CONCACAF team on October 7, 2017.

CONCACAF Nations Cup

CONCACAF Gold Cup

  • 1991 - 4th place
  • 1993 - 3rd place
  • 1996 - did not qualify
  • 1998 - preliminary round
  • 2000 - quarter-finals
  • 2002 - 2nd place
  • 2003 - 4th place
  • 2005 - quarter-finals
  • 2007 - quarter-finals
  • 2009 - semi-finals
  • 2011 - quarter-finals
  • 2013 - quarter finals
  • 2015 - quarter-finals
  • 2017 - semi-finals
  • 2019 - quarter-finals
  • 2021 - qualified

Central American Football Championship

UNCAF Nations Cup

  • 1991 - winner
  • 1993 - 2nd place
  • 1995 - 4th place
  • 1997 - winner
  • 1999 - winner
  • 2001 - 2nd place
  • 2003 - winner
  • 2005 - winner
  • 2007 - winner
  • 2009 - 2nd place

Copa Centroamericana

Copa America

Costa Rica first took part in 1997 as a visiting team at the Copa América , but retired in the preliminary round. Then you were invited three more times, most recently in 2011 as a replacement for the Japanese team, which had canceled after the earthquake and the reactor disaster in Fukushima.

  • 1997 : preliminary round
  • 2001 : quarter-finals
  • 2004 : quarter-finals
  • 2011 : Preliminary round (eliminated as the worst third in the group)
  • 2016 : Preliminary round (Copa América Centenario)

Record player

As of February 1, 2020

Record player
Games player Period Gates
137 (135) Walter Centeno 1995-2009 24 (23)
130 (128) Celso Borges 2008 – active 23 (20)
128 (126) Luis Marín 1993-2006 5
125 (123) Bryan Ruiz 2005 – active 26th
113 (111) Rolando Fonseca 1992-2008 47 (46)
111 (109) Álvaro Saborío 2002-2016 36 (34)
110 (109) Mauricio Solís 1993-2006 6th
103 (102) Michael Umaña 2004 – active 1
101 (98) Harold Wallace 1995-2009 3
93 Joel Campbell 2011 – active 16
91 Rónald Gómez 1993-2008 24
91 (90) Keylor Navas 2008 – active 0
Record shooters
Gates player Period Games
47 (46) Rolando Fonseca 1992-2008 113 (111)
45 Paulo Wanchope 1996-2008 73
36 (34) Álvaro Saborío 2002 – active 111 (109)
26th Bryan Ruiz 2005 – active 125 (123)
24 (23) Walter Centeno 1995-2009 137 (135)
24 Ronald Gomez 1993-2008 91
23 (20) Celso Borges 2008 – active 130 (128)
23 Juan Ulloa 1955-1970 27
21st Jorge Hernán Monge 1955-1961 26th
18 (17) Hernan Medford 1987-2002 89 (87)
16 Joel Campbell 2011 – active 93
  1. ↑ a b rsssf.com: Costa Rica - Record International Players
  2. ↑ Incl. Matches and goals against French Guiana , Guadeloupe , Martinique , Saint Martin and Sint Maarten , who are members of CONCACAF but not members of FIFA and are therefore not taken into account by FIFA. (Matches and goals recognized by FIFA in brackets, if different.)

Trainer

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

date place Home team result Visiting team
1. 08/20/2003 Vienna AustriaAustria Austria 2-0 Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica
2. 06/09/2006 Munich GermanyGermany Germany 4: 2 Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica
3. 09/02/2006 Lancy AustriaAustria Austria 2: 2 Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica
4th 09/06/2006 Lancy SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 2-0 Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica

So far there have been no games against Liechtenstein.

All matches: List of the international matches for the Costa Rican national soccer team

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ USA and Costa Rica buy World Cup tickets. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FOOTBALL World Cup total, September 11, 2013, accessed on September 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ http://de.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/nccamerica/index.html#276449
  4. ↑ http://de.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/index.html
  5. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF; 200 kB).
  6. ↑ fifa.com: History of the FIFA World Cup Preliminary Competition (by year) (PDF; 325 kB), p. 10

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