Luis Fernando Suárez - International Matches as Coach


The outstanding Colombian coach coached three national teams (Ecuador, Honduras and Costa Rica) for (in total) 131 international matches, and thereby belongs to the select company of coaches with 100 or more international matches. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.


Born: 23-12-1959
Country: Colombia
Matches as Coach:		131	(W49-D28-L54 - GF152-GA169 - %48.09)
Matches as Coach for Ecuador:    52	(W17-D 9-L26 - GF 63-GA 78 - %41.35)
Matches as Coach for Honduras:   51	(W17-D13-L21 - GF 58-GA 63 - %46.08)
Matches as Coach for Costa Rica: 28	(W15-D 6-L 7 - GF 31-GA 28 - %64.29)

Age First Match: 44 yr 256 d	    5- 9-2004 vs. Uruguay 0-1
Age Last Match:  62 yr 343 d	    1-12-2022 vs. Germany 2-4
National Team Career: 18 yr  87 d 

Coach for Ecuador
Caps   Date  	Venue   	Opponent       Score 	Competition
 1    5- 9-04	Montevideo	Uruguay 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 2   10-10-04	Quito   	Chile   	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
 3   14-10-04	San Cristóbal	Venezuela	1-3	World Cup Qualifier
 4   20-10-04	Tripoli 	Jordan  	0-3	LG Cup
 5   22-10-04	Tripoli 	Nigeria   	2-2 [1]	LG Cup
 6   27-10-04	East Rutherford	Mexico  	1-2	
 7   17-11-04	Quito   	Brazil  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 8   26- 1-05	Ambato  	Panama  	2-0	
 9   29- 1-05	Babahoyo	Panama  	2-0	
10    9- 2-05	Viña del Mar	Chile   	0-3	
11   16- 2-05	Heredia 	Costa Rica	2-1	
12   27- 3-05	Quito   	Paraguay	5-2	World Cup Qualifier
13   30- 3-05	Lima    	Peru    	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
14    4- 5-05	East Rutherford	Paraguay	1-0	
15    4- 6-05	Quito   	Argentina	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
16    8- 6-05	Barranquilla	Colombia	0-3	World Cup Qualifier
17   11- 6-05	East Rutherford	Italy   	1-1	
18   17- 8-05	Loja    	Venezuela	3-1	
19    3- 9-05	La Paz  	Bolivia 	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
20    8-10-05	Quito   	Uruguay 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
21   12-10-05	Santiago	Chile   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
22   13-11-05	Barcelona	Poland  	0-3	
23   27-12-05	Cairo   	Senegal U-23	1-2	LG Cup
24   29-12-05	Cairo   	Uganda  	1-2	LG Cup
25   25- 1-06	Guayaquil	Honduras	1-0	
26    1- 3-06	Amsterdam	Netherlands	0-1	
27   30- 3-06	Oita    	Japan   	0-1	
28   24- 5-06	East Rutherford	Colombia	1-1	
29   28- 5-06	Getafe  	Macedonia	1-2	
30    9- 6-06	Gelsenkirchen	Poland  	2-0	World Cup
31   15- 6-06	Hamburg 	Costa Rica	3-0	World Cup
32   20- 6-06	Berlin  	Germany 	0-3	World Cup
33   25- 6-06	Stuttgart	England 	0-1	World Cup
34    6- 9-06	East Rutherford	Peru    	1-1	
35   10-10-06	Stockholm	Brazil  	1-2	
36   18- 1-07	Cuenca  	Sweden  	2-0	
37   21- 1-07	Quito   	Sweden  	1-1	
38   25- 3-07	Tampa   	United States	1-3	
39   28- 3-07	Oakland 	Mexico  	2-4	
40   23- 5-07	East Rutherford	Ireland 	1-1	
41    3- 6-07	Madrid  	Peru    	1-2	
42    6- 6-07	Barcelona	Peru    	2-0	
43   23- 6-07	Barranquilla	Colombia	1-3	
44   27- 6-07	Puerto La Cruz	Chile   	2-3	Copa América
45    1- 7-07	Maturín 	Mexico  	1-2	Copa América
46    4- 7-07	Puerto La Cruz	Brazil  	0-1	Copa América
47   22- 8-07	Quito   	Bolivia 	1-0	
48    8- 9-07	Quito   	El Salvador	5-1	
49   12- 9-07	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	1-2	
50   13-10-07	Quito   	Venezuela	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
51   17-10-07	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil  	0-5	World Cup Qualifier
52   17-11-07	Asunción	Paraguay	1-5	World Cup Qualifier

[1] Ecuador won 4-3 on penalty kicks. 

Coach for Honduras
Caps   Date  	Venue   	Opponent       Score 	Competition
 1    6- 6-11	Carson  	Guatemala	0-0	CONCACAF Cup
 2   10- 6-11	Miami   	Grenada 	7-1	CONCACAF Cup
 3   13- 6-11	Harrison	Jamaica 	0-1	CONCACAF Cup
 4   18- 6-11	East Rutherford	Costa Rica 	1-1 [1]	CONCACAF Cup
 5   22- 6-11	Houston 	Mexico  	0-2	CONCACAF Cup
 6   10- 8-11	Fort Lauderdale	Venezuela	2-0	
 7    3- 9-11	Harrison	Colombia	0-2	
 8    6- 9-11	San Pedro Sula	Paraguay	0-3	
 9    8-10-11	Miami   	United States	0-1	
10   11-10-11	La Ceiba	Jamaica 	2-1	
11   14-11-11	San Pedro Sula	Serbia  	2-0	
12   29- 2-12	Guayaquil	Ecuador 	0-2	
13   11- 4-12	San José	Costa Rica	1-1	
14   26- 5-12	Dallas  	New Zealand	0-1	
15    2- 6-12	Washington DC	El Salvador	3-0	
16    8- 6-12	San Pedro Sula	Panama  	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
17   12- 6-12	Toronto 	Canada  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
18    7- 9-12	La Habana	Cuba    	3-0	World Cup Qualifier
19   11- 9-12	San Pedro Sula	Cuba    	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
20   12-10-12	Cd. de Panamá	Panama  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
21   16-10-12	San Pedro Sula	Canada  	8-1	World Cup Qualifier
22   14-11-12	Houston 	Peru    	0-0	
23   18- 1-13	San José	El Salvador	1-1	UNCAF Cup
24   22- 1-13	San José	Panama  	1-1	UNCAF Cup
25   25- 1-13	San José	Belize  	1-0	UNCAF Cup
26   27- 1-13	San José	Costa Rica	0-1	UNCAF Cup
27    6- 2-13	San Pedro Sula	United States	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
28   22- 3-13	San Pedro Sula	Mexico  	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
29   26- 3-13	Cd. de Panamá	Panama  	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
30    2- 6-13	New York	Israel  	0-2	
31    7- 6-13	San José	Costa Rica	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
32   11- 6-13	Tegucigalpa	Jamaica 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
33   18- 6-13	Sandy   	United States	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
34    8- 7-13	Harrison	Haiti   	2-0	CONCACAF Cup
35   12- 7-13	Miami   	El Salvador	1-0	CONCACAF Cup
36   15- 7-13	Houston 	Trinidad/Tobago	0-2	CONCACAF Cup
37   21- 7-13	Baltimore	Costa Rica	1-0	CONCACAF Cup
38   24- 7-13	Arlington	United States	1-3	CONCACAF Cup
39    6- 9-13	Cd. de México	Mexico  	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
40   10- 9-13	Tegucigalpa	Panama  	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
41   11-10-13	San Pedro Sula	Costa Rica	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
42   15-10-13	Kingston	Jamaica 	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
43   16-11-13	Miami   	Brazil  	0-5	
44   19-11-13	Houston 	Ecuador 	2-2	
45    5- 3-14	San Pedro Sula	Venezuela	2-1	
46   29- 5-14	Washington DC	Turkey  	0-2	
47    1- 6-14	Houston 	Israel  	2-4	
48    7- 6-14	Miami Gardens	England 	0-0	
49   15- 6-14	Porto Alegre	France   	0-3	World Cup
50   20- 6-14	Curitiba	Ecuador 	1-2	World Cup
51   25- 6-14	Manaus  	Switzerland	0-3	World Cup

[1] Honduras won 4-2 on penalty kicks. 

Coach for Costa Rica
Caps   Date  	Venue   	Opponent       Score 	Competition
 1   12- 7-21	Orlando 	Guadeloupe 	3-1 [*]	CONCACAF Cup
 2   16- 7-21	Orlando  	Surinam 	2-1	CONCACAF Cup
 3   20- 7-21	Orlando 	Jamaica 	1-0	CONCACAF Cup
 4   25- 7-21	Arlington	Canada  	0-2	CONCACAF Cup
 5   22- 8-21	Carson  	El Salvador	0-0	
 6    2- 9-21	Cd. de Panamá	Panama  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 7    5- 9-21	San José	Mexico  	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 8    8- 9-21	San José	Jamaica 	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
 9    7-10-21	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
10   10-10-21	San José	El Salvador	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
11   13-10-21	Columbus	United States	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
12   12-11-21	Edmonton	Canada  	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
13   16-11-21	San José	Honduras	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
14   27- 1-22	San José	Panama  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
15   30- 1-22	Cd. de México	Mexico  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
16    2- 2-22	Kingston	Jamaica  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
17   24- 3-22	San José	Canada  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
18   27- 3-22	San Salvador	El Salvador	2-1	World Cup Qualifier
19   30- 3-22	San José	United States	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
20    2- 6-22	Cd. de Panamá	Panama  	0-2	Nations League
21    5- 6-22	San José	Martinique 	2-0 [*]	Nations League
22   14- 6-22	Al-Rayyan	New Zealand	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
23   23- 9-22	Goyang  	South Korea	2-2	
24   27- 9-22	Suwon   	Uzbekistan	2-1	
25    9-11-22	San José	Nigeria 	2-0	
26   23-11-22	Doha     	Spain   	0-7	World Cup
27   27-11-22	Al-Rayyan	Japan   	1-0	World Cup
28    1-12-22	Al-Khor 	Germany  	2-4	World Cup

[*] match not considered full A by FIFA.

Total Record

Matches	Won Draw Lost	For-Against     Points	Percentage

    131	 49  28  54	152- 169	126	48.09


Types of Matches

Friendlies		 49
World Cup Qualifier	 45
CONCACAF Gold Cup	 14
World Cup		 10
UNCAF Cup		  4
Copa América		  3
CONCACAF Nations League	  2
Other Tournaments	  4 

Total matches:  	131



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