Costa Rica women's national football team

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.

World Cup

CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

Players

Squad for the Torneio Internacional feminino in Manaos (Brazil).

Head coach: Amelia Valverde