Costa Rica women's national football team

Costa Rica

Association	Federación Costarricense de Fútbol
Confederation	CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean)
Sub-confederation	Central American Football Union (Central America)
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 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)
Medal record Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg 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

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

Recent call-ups

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

Previous squads

World Cup 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup squad

CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup CONCACAF 2014 squad

References

External links

• Official website
• FIFA profile