Costa Rica women's national football team

Costa Rica
Association Federación Costarricense de Fútbol
Sub-confederation Central American Football Union (Central America)
Confederation CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean)
Head coach Amelia Valverde
Captain Shirley Cruz Traña
Home stadium Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica
FIFA code CRC
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current 30 Increase 4 (25 March 2016)
Highest 30 (March 2016)
Lowest 106 (March 2010)
World Cup
Appearances 1 (First in 2015)
Best result Group Stage (2015)
CONCACAF Championship
Appearances 6 (First in 1991)
Best result Runners-up (2014)

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
China 1991 Did Not Qualify
Sweden 1995 Did Not Enter
United States 1999 Did Not Qualify
United States 2003 Did Not Qualify
China 2007 Did Not Qualify
Germany 2011 Did Not Qualify
Canada 2015Group stage18th302134
Total1/7-302134
*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
Haiti 1991Group Stage3102211-9
United States 1993Did Not Enter-------
Canada 1994Did Not Enter-------
Canada 1998Third Place5302117+4
United States 2000Group Stage3012218-16
United StatesCanada 2002Fourth Place5203814-6
United States 2006Did Not Qualify-------
Mexico 2010Fourth Place5203411-7
United States 2014Runners-up5401109+1
Total6/926121133770-33
*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

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Dinnia Díaz (1988-01-14) 14 January 1988 31 0 Costa Rica UD Moravia
2 2DF Gabriela Guillén (1992-03-01) 1 March 1992 16 0 Costa Rica Deportivo Saprissa
3 3MF Fabiola Villalobos (1998-03-13) 13 March 1998 3 0 United States Soccer Institute at Montverde Academy
4 2DF Mariana Benavidez (1994-12-26) 26 December 1994 17 4 Costa Rica C.S. Herediano
5 2DF María Paula Elizondo (1998-11-30) 30 November 1998 3 0 Costa Rica Dimas Alajuela
6 2DF Carol Sánchez (1986-04-16) 16 April 1986 41 2 Costa Rica UD Moravia
7 4FW Melissa Herrera (1996-10-10) 10 October 1996 30 16 Costa Rica Deportivo Saprissa
8 3MF Gloriana Villalobos (1999-08-20) 20 August 1999 17 2 Costa Rica Deportivo Saprissa
9 4FW Carolina Venegas (1991-09-28) 28 September 1991 45 17 Costa Rica Deportivo Saprissa
11 4FW Katheryn Arroyo (1996-12-13) 13 December 1996 7 0 Costa Rica UCEM Alajuela
12 2DF Lixy Rodríguez (1990-11-04) 4 November 1990 57 2 Spain Santa Teresa CD
14 2DF María Paula Coto (1998-03-02) 2 March 1998 5 0 Costa Rica L.D. Alajuelense
15 3MF Cristin Granados (1989-08-19) 19 August 1989 64 11 Costa Rica Deportivo Saprissa
16 3MF Katherine Alvarado (1991-04-11) 11 April 1991 58 20 Costa Rica Deportivo Saprissa
17 4FW Karla Villalobos (1989-07-16) 16 July 1989 16 9 Costa Rica C.S. Herediano
18 1GK Noelia Bermúdez (1994-09-20) 20 September 1994 2 0 Spain Levante UD
19 3MF Indira González (1998-01-09) 9 January 1998 1 0 Costa Rica Dimas Escazú
20 3MF Wendy Acosta (1989-12-19) 19 December 1989 49 18 Spain UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur

Recent call-ups

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK Yolian Salas (1997-04-07) 7 April 1997 1 0 Costa Rica UD Moravia {{{latest}}}
GK Yirlania Arroyo (1986-05-28) 28 May 1986 40 0 United States Sky Blue FC {{{latest}}}
DF Daniela Cruz (1991-03-08) 8 March 1991 36 6 Costa Rica Deportivo Saprissa {{{latest}}}
DF Diana Sáenz (1989-04-15) 15 April 1989 56 0 United States Univ. of South Florida {{{latest}}}
DF Fabiola Sánchez (1993-04-09) 9 April 1993 14 3 United States Martin Methodist Redhawks {{{latest}}}
DF Noelle Sanz (1995-01-21) 21 January 1995 1 0 United States Univ. of Alabama {{{latest}}}
DF Emilie Valenciano (1997-02-15) 15 February 1997 4 0 Costa Rica L.D. Alajuelense {{{latest}}}
MF Mayra Almazán (1994-09-07) 7 September 1994 1 0 United States PDA Slammers {{{latest}}}
MF Shirley Cruz Traña (c) (1985-08-28) 28 August 1985 66 22 France Paris Saint-Germain {{{latest}}}
FW María Barrantes (1996-01-25) 25 January 1996 25 21 Costa Rica UD Moravia {{{latest}}}
FW Raquel Rodríguez (1993-10-28) 28 October 1993 43 25 United States Sky Blue FC {{{latest}}}
FW Adriana Venegas (1991-06-12) 12 June 1991 10 5 Costa Rica C.S. Herediano {{{latest}}}

Previous squads

World Cup

CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

References

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