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COSTA RICA AT THE WORLD CUPS

Costa Rica at the World Cups

QUICK FACTS
TITLES
APPEARANCES AT WC
HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORDS
GOALSCORERS AT WC
TOP GOALSCORERS

MOST CAPPED PLAYERS
SQUADS
COACHES
AWARDED PLAYERS
FIXTURES AND RESULTS
PLAYERS' CLUBS
ALL MATCHES

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Costa Rica

The Costa Rica national football team (Spanish: Selección de Fútbol de Costa Rica) represents Costa Rica in international football and is controlled by the Costa Rican Football Federation (Spanish: Federación Costarricense de Fútbol, FEDEFUTBOL), the governing body for football in Costa Rica.

The FEDEFUTBOL was founded in1921, became a member of FIFA in 1927, and a member of CONCACAF in 1962. Football in Costa Rica began circa 1894-1896, when British businessmen arrived in the country to install the tram and joined here with Costa Ricans who had been in England pursuing his studies, almost all of them children of coffee growers that sent the product to markets in London. The first liga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol) was created by 7 clubs: Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, Club Sport Cartaginés, Club Sport Herediano, Club Sport La Libertad, Sociedad Gimnástica Española de San José, Club Sport La Unión de Tres Ríos and Sociedad Gimnástica Limonense. Since then, Costs Rica's top clubs have been Deportivo Saprissa with 29 championships, LD Alajuelense with 28, and CS Herediano with 23.

Costa Rica is one of the most successful football team in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, the area commonly known as CONCACAF. The Costa Ricans (Ticos) have won the CONCACAF Gold Cup a record 3 times.

QUICK FACTS

Association	Federación Coastarricense de Fútbol	Primera División
Confederation	CONCACAF	Primera División
Nickname	Los Ticos - La Sele ((The Sele)ction)
Foundation year	1921
Affiliate since	1927
Topscorer in WC	Rónald Gómez, Paulo Wanchope: 3
Head Coach	Oscar Ramírez	Info:ejecutivo@fedefutbol.com
Titles	None	Info:ejecutivo@fedefutbol.com

TITLES

CONCACAF GOLD CUP		Gold	Silver	Bronze
	1963 El Salvador	1
	1965 Guatemala			3
	1969 Costa Rica	1
	1971 Trinidad and Tobago			3
	1985 No fixed place			3
	1989 No fixed place	1
	1993 Mexico - USA			3
	2002 United States		2
	2003 USA - Mexico			3

COSTA RICA APPEARANCES AT WORLD CUPS

Nro	Flag	World Cup	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Perf.	Rd	Pos	Par	Pt	P/Par	Ap.
Total			15	5	4	6	17	23	-6	17	4.13		17.75	30	7.50	22.35	4
14		1990 Italy	4	2	0	2	4	6	-2	4	1.00	2R	13	24	1.50	0.54	1
17		2002 Korea-Japan	3	1	1	1	5	6	-1	4	1.33	1R	19	32	1	0.59	2
18		2006 Germany	3	0	0	3	3	9	-6	0	0.00	1R	31	32	1	0.97	3
20		2014 Brazil	5	2	3	0	5	2	3	9	1.80	QF	8	32	4	0.25	4

Where: Perf: Pts/Pld Rd: Round Pos: Position Total Pos: SUM(Pos)/Ap Par: No. participants

Pt: How many points scores in the WC. Champion: 32, Finalist: 16, TP: 12, FP: 8, QF: 4, R16: 2, FR: 1

P/Par: Pos/Par Total P/Par: SUM(P/Par + 1.25 * each World Cup uncontested)/20 Ap: Appearances

HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORDS (AT WORLD CUPS)

More Played Matches
Nro	Flag	Team	Pld	W	D	L	%Won	%Lost
1		Brazil	2	0	0	2	0%	100%
2		China	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
3		Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1	0%	100%
4		Ecuador	1	0	0	1	0%	100%
5		England	1	0	1	0	0%	0%
6		Germany	1	0	0	1	0%	100%
7		Greece	1	0	1	0	0%	0%
8		Italy	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
9		Netherlands	1	0	1	0	0%	0%
10		Poland	1	0	0	1	0%	100%
11		Scotland	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
12		Sweden	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
13		Turkey	1	0	1	0	0%	0%
14		Uruguay	1	1	0	0	100%	0%

Best Results
Nro	Flag	Team	Pld	W	D	L	%Won	%Lost
1		Italy	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
2		Scotland	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
3		China	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
4		Uruguay	1	1	0	0	100%	0%
5		Sweden	1	1	0	0	100%	0%

Worst Results
Nro	Flag	Team	Pld	W	D	L	%Won	%Lost
1		Brazil	2	0	0	2	0%	100%
2		Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1	0%	100%
3		Germany	1	0	0	1	0%	100%
4		Poland	1	0	0	1	0%	100%
5		Ecuador	1	0	0	1	0%	100%

GOALSCORERS AT WORLD CUPS

Nro	Player	TG	30	34	38	50	54	58	62	66	70	74	78	82	86	90	94	98	02	06	10	14
		17														4			5	3		5
1	Paulo Wanchope	3																	1	2
1	Rónald Gómez	3																	2	1
3	Bryan Ruiz	2																				2
4	Rónald González	1														1
	Marco Ureña	1																				1
	Róger Flores	1														1
	Joel Campbell	1																				1
	Oscar Duarte	1																				1
	Juan Cayasso	1														1
	Winston Parks	1																	1
	Hernán Medford	1														1
	Mauricio Wright	1																	1

TOP GOALSCORERS AT ALL COMPETITIONS

Players in bold are still active in the competence - As of November 11, 2017

#	Name	Goals	Caps	AVG/Games	Career
1	Rolando Fonseca	47	113	0.41	1992-09
2	Paulo Wanchope	45	73	0.62	1996-08
3	Álvaro Saborío	35	108	0.32	200216
4	Juan Ulloa	27	27	1.00	1955-70
5	Ronald Gómez	24	91	0.26	1993-08
5	Walter Centeno	24	137	0.17	1995-09
7	Jorge Hernán Monge	23	27	0.85	1955-61
8	Bryan Ruiz	23	107	0.21	2005-Present
9	Celso Borges	21	105	0.20	2008-Present
10	Hernán Medford	18	89	0.20	1987-02

Rolando Fonseca

MOST CAPPED PLAYERS AT ALL COMPETITIONS

Players in bold are still active in the competence - As of November 11, 2017

#	Name	Caps	Career
1	Walter Centeno	137	1995-09
2	Luis Marín	127	1993-09
3	Rolando Fonseca	112	1992-11
4	Mauricio Solís	110	1993-06
5	Álvaro Saborío	108	2002-Present
6	Bryan Ruiz	107	2005-Present
7	Celso Borges	105	2008-Present
8	Michael Umaña	103	2004-Present
9	Harold Wallace	99	1995-09
10	Ronald Gomez	91	1995-08
11	Hernán Medford	89	1987-02

Walter Centeno

SQUADS

	Costa Rica Squad - 1990 World Cup
	Costa Rica Squad - 2002 World Cup
	Costa Rica Squad - 2006 World Cup
	Costa Rica Squad - 2014 World Cup

AWARDED PLAYERS

IFFHS PLAYER OF THE CENTURY
#	Name	Votes	Years
1	Alejandro Morera	14	1925-47
2	Ronald Gómez	9	1992-09

IFFHS GOALKEEPER OF THE CENTURY
#	Name	Votes	Years
1	Luis Gabelo Conejo	25	1981-97

Luis Gabelo Conejo

Source: SuperSonicx1986

COACHES

#	Cou	Name	Years
1		Manolo Rodríguez	1930
2		Ricardo Saprissa Aymá	1935, 38
3		Alejandro Morera Soto	1941, 43
4		Jorge Lalo Rojas	1943
5		Randolph Galloway	1946-48
6		Otto Bumbel	1950-56
7		Luis Lucho Tirado	1956-58
8		Hugo Tassara Olivares	1958-60
9		Eduardo Toba	1960-61
10		Alfredo Piedra	1961-62
11		Mario Cordero	1962-65
12		Eduardo Viso Abella	1965-71
13		Humberto Maschio	1971-75
14		José Etchegoyen	1975-80
15		Antonio Moyano Reyna	1980-85
16		Odir Jacques	1985-87
17		Gustavo de Simone	1987-89
18		Marvin Rodríguez	1989-90
19		Bora Milutinovic	1990
20		Rolando Villalobos	1991-92, 98
21		Héctor Núñez	1992
22		Juan José Gamez	1993
23		Toribio Rojas	1993-95
24		Ignacio Núñez	1995
25		Valdeir Vieira	1996
26		Horacio Cordero	1997
27		Juan Luis Hernández Fuertes	1997
28		Francisco Maturana	1999
29		Marvin Rodríguez	1999-00
30		Gilson Siqueira Nunes	2000
31		Alexandre Guimarães	2001-02, 05-06
32		Rodrigo Kenton	2002, 08-09
33		Steve Sampson	2002-04
34		Jorge Luis Pinto	2004-05, 11-14
35		Hernán Medford	2006-08
36		René Simoes	2009
37		Rónald González Brenes	2009-10, 11
38		Ricardo La Volpe	2010-11
39		Paulo Wanchope	2014-15
40		Oscar Ramirez	2015-Present

FIXTURES AND RESULTS

Main article: Costa Rica national football team schedule and results

2017

#	Date	Place		Score		Competition
1	13 Jan 17	Panama City, Panama	Costa Rica	0-0	El Salvador	2017 CC
2	15 Jan 17	Panama City, Panama	Costa Rica	3-0	Belize	2017 CC
3	17 Jan 17	Panama City, Panama	Costa Rica	0-0	Nicaragua	2017 CC
4	20 Jan 17	Panama City, Panama	Costa Rica	1-1	Honduras	2017 CC
5	22 Jan 17	Panama City, Panama	Costa Rica	0-1	Panama	2017 CC
6	24 Mar 17	Mexico City, Mexico	Costa Rica	0-2	Mexico	2018 Q
7	28 Mar 17	San Pedro Sula, Honduras	Costa Rica	1-1	Honduras	2018 Q
8	8 Jun 17	San José, Costa Rica	Costa Rica	0-0	Panama	2018 Q
9	13 Jun 17	San José, Costa Rica	Costa Rica	3-1	Trinidad & Tobago	2018 Q
10	7 Jul 17	Harrison, United States	Costa Rica	1-0	Honduras	Gold Cup GS
11	11 Jul 17	Houston, United States	Costa Rica	1-1	Canada	Gold Cup GS
12	14 Jul 17	Frisco, United States	Costa Rica	3-0	French Guiana	Gold Cup GS
13	19 Jul 17	Philadelphia, United States	Costa Rica	1-0	Panama	Gold Cup GS
14	22 Jul 17	Arlington, United States	Costa Rica	0-2	United States	Gold Cup GS
15	1 Sep 17	Harrison, United States	Costa Rica	2-0	United States	2018 Q
16	5 Sep 17	San José, Costa Rica	Costa Rica	1-1	Mexico	2018 Q
17	7 Oct 17	San José, Costa Rica	Costa Rica	1-1	Honduras	2018 Q
18	10 Oct 17	Panama City, Panama	Costa Rica	1-2	Panama	2018 Q
19	10 Nov 17	Málaga, Spain	Costa Rica	0-5	Spain	F
20	14 Nov 17	Budapest, Hungary	Costa Rica	0-1	Hungary	F

2018

#	Date	Place		Score		Competition
1	23 Mar 18	Glasgow,Scotland	Costa Rica	1-0	Scotland	F
2	27 Mar 18	Nice, France	Costa Rica	0-1	Tunisia	F
3	3 Jun 18	San José, Costa Rica	Costa Rica		Northern Ireland	F
4	7 Jun 18	Leeds, England	Costa Rica		England	F
5	11 Jun 18	Leeds, England	Costa Rica		Belgium	F
6	17 Jun 18	Samara, Russia	Costa Rica		Serbia	Russia 2018
7	22 Jun 18	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Costa Rica		Brazil	Russia 2018
8	27 Jun 18	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	Costa Rica		Switzerland	Russia 2018

PLAYERS' CLUBS

These are the clubs that have historically contributed more players to the Costa Rica national football team.

Pos	Logo	Team	Players	Country	Flag
1		Deportivo Saprissa	24	Costa Rica
2		LD Alajuelense	19	Costa Rica
3		CS Herediano	17	Costa Rica
4		CS Cartaginés	5	Costa Rica
5		Columbus Crew	2	United States
		Club Brugge K.V.	1	Belgium
		AD Limonense	1	Costa Rica
		AD Ramonense	1	Costa Rica
		San Carlos	1	Costa Rica
		Municipal Puntarenas	1	Costa Rica
6		Brujas	1	Costa Rica
		F.C. Copenhagen	1	Denmark
		Manchester City	1	England
		Mainz 05	1	Germany
		OFI Crete	1	Greece
		Olympiacos F.C.	1	Greece
		CSD Comunicaciones	1	Guatemala
		Udinese	1	Italy
		Brescia	1	Italy
		PSV Eindhoven	1	Netherlands
		Vålerenga	1	Norway
		Rosenborg BK	1	Norway
		Aalesund FK	1	Norway
		FC Kuban Krasnodar	1	Russia
		Levante	1	Spain
		AIK	1	Sweden
		New York Red Bulls	1	United States
		Real Salt Lake	1	United States