Costa Rica women's national football team
The Costa Rica women's national football team is the national women's team of Costa Rica and is controlled by the Costa Rican Football Federation. They are one of the top women's national football teams in the Central American region along with Guatemala.
History
The Costa Rican team just started to play an international match in 1990, when Central America was on struggle about developing women's football. The success of men's team helped the FCF to believe on the women's team. Their first tournament, was the 1991 CONCACAF Women's Championship when Costa Rica finished third and was out from the group stage.
Despite of this, Costa Rica started gaining success in 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship and 1999 Pan American Games when Costa Rica won bronze both. But later, Costa Rica did not gain much successful achievement, as the national team was still on struggle under the shadow of men's team.
However, in 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship, Costa Rica surprisingly won silver, after losing 0-6 to the USA in the final. This losses, still, marking for the first time Costa Rica would play in a FIFA Women's World Cup held in Canada 2015. Therefore, it wrote history for Costa Rica women's team, making them more popular, after the men's team's successful Brazil 2014 campaign. Costa Rica women's, later, was drawn with Brazil, South Korea and Spain, in which Costa Rica was considered as the weakest team. Costa Rica almost rewrote history, after two shocking draws over Spain (1-1) and South Korea (2-2), but the 0-1 lost to Brazil had eliminated Costa Rica from the tournament as South Korea beat Spain 2-1.
Tournament record
World Cup
| World Cup Finals |
| Year |
Result |
Position |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
 1991 |
Did Not Qualify |
 1995 |
Did Not Enter |
 1999 |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2003 |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2007 |
Did Not Qualify |
 2011 |
Did Not Qualify |
 2015 | Group stage | 18th | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Total | 1/7 | - | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
| Women's Gold Cup |
| Year |
Result |
Matches |
Wins |
Draws* |
Losses |
GF |
GA |
GD |
 1991 | Group Stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 11 | -9 |
| 1993 | Did Not Enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1994 | Did Not Enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1998 | Third Place | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 |
| 2000 | Group Stage | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 18 | -16 |
| 2002 | Fourth Place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -6 |
| 2006 | Did Not Qualify | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
 2010 | Fourth Place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -7 |
| 2014 | Runners-up | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | +1 |
| Total | 6/9 | 26 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 37 | 70 | -33 |
- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
Players
Squad for the Women's Olympic Qualifying (Central American Zone).
- Caps and goals as of 10 October 2015
Head coach: Amelia Valverde
Recent call-ups
Previous squads
- World Cup
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- CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
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References
External links
| Costa Rica squads – FIFA Women's World Cup |
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- Footballer of the Year
- Top scorers
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- All-time Table
- Champions
- Clubs
- International footballers
- Foreign players
- Venues
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- Men's clubs
- Women's clubs
- Men's players
- Women's players
- Expatriate players
- Managers
- Referees
- Venues
- Seasons
- Records
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- 1: Inside the North American zone, but CFU member.
- 2: South American country, but affiliated to CONCACAF and CFU.
- 3: Full CONCACAF member, but non-FIFA member.
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(25 September 2015)
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