Costa Rica national under-17 football team

The **Costa Rica national under-17 team** represents Costa Rica in youth international football team. They have appeared at the FIFA U-17 World Cup 10 times with their best placing quarter-final four times.

### FIFA U-17 World Cup record

|Year|Round|GP|W|D*|L|GS|GA||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1985|Group stage|3|0|0|3|1|9||
|1987|rowspan=4 colspan=7|_Did not qualify_|||||||
|1989|||||||||
|1991|||||||||
|1993|||||||||
|1995|Group stage|3|1|0|2|2|5||
|1997|3|0|0|3|1|6|||
|1999|colspan=7|_Did not qualify_|||||||
|2001|rowspan=3|Quarter-finals|4|2|0|2|5|4|
|2003|4|1|1|2|3|5|||
|2005|4|1|2|1|5|5|||
|2007|Round of 16|4|1|1|2|3|4||
|2009|Group stage|3|0|1|2|3|9||
|2011|rowspan=2 colspan=7|_Did not qualify_|||||||
|2013|||||||||
|2015|Quarter-finals|5|1|2|2|4|5||
|2017|Group stage|3|0|1|2|3|7||
|2019|rowspan=2 colspan=7|_Did not qualify_|||||||
|2023|||||||||
|2025|colspan=7|_to be determined_|||||||

- _* Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks._

### CONCACAF U-17 Championship record

- 1983: Did not enter
- 1985: Runners-up
- 1987: Third place
- 1988: First stage
- 1991: Did not enter
- 1992: First stage
- 1994: **Champions**
- 1996: Third place
- 1999: Third place Group A
- 2001: First place Group B
- 2003: First place Group B
- 2005: Second place Group A (won qualifying playoff)•
- 2007: Second place Group B
- 2009: Second place Group B (tournament interrupted)
- 2011: Quarter-finals
- 2013: Group stage
- 2015: Final stage - Won qualifying playoff
- 2017: Classification stage - Second place Group E
- 2019: Quarter-finals
- 2023: Round of 16
- From 1983 until 1991, competition was U-16, not U-17
- In 2009 the tournament was interrupted due to the swine flu, but Costa Rica obtained a spot for the U-17 World Cup.
•Tournaments from 1999 to 2007 followed a two group format. No championship game took place and no standings were given. The top teams in their respective groups qualified and the second placed teams played in a playoff to decide the final seed.

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Costa Rica under-17
- **badge size**: 150px
- **fifa trigramme**: CRC
- **nickname**: Ticos, La Tricolor, La Sele (Selección)
- **association**: Costa Rican Football Federation, Federación Costarricense de Fútbol
- **confederation**: CONCACAF
- **coach**: Cristian Salomón
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- **first game**: 1 – 4
(Dammam, China; February 17, 1985)
- **largest win**: 3 – 0
(Malabar, Trinidad and Tobago; September 17, 2001)
- **largest loss**: 1 – 4
(Enugu, Nigeria; October 29, 2009)

- **regional name**: FIFA U-17 World Cup
- **regional cup apps**: 10
- **regional cup first**: 1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship, 1985
- **regional cup best**: Quarter-finals (2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 2001, 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 2003, 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship, 2005, 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, 2015)
- **2ndregional name**: CONCACAF Under-17 Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 18
- **2ndregional cup first**: 1985 CONCACAF U-17 Championship, 1985
- **2ndregional cup best**: **Champions** (1994 CONCACAF U-17 Tournament, 1994)