The Netherlands Antilles national football team (Dutch: Nederlands-Antilliaans voetbalelftal; Papiamento: Selekshon Antiano di futbòl) was the national team of the former Netherlands Antilles from 1958 to 2010. It was controlled by the Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie. The NAVU consisted of Curaçao and Bonaire. Aruba split in 1986 and has its own team.
1958–2010 | |||
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Nickname(s) | De Antilopen | ||
Association | Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie | ||
Confederation | CONCACAF (North America) | ||
Home stadium | Stadion Ergilio Hato | ||
FIFA code | ANT | ||
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FIFA ranking | |||
Highest | 118 (July 1995) | ||
Lowest | 188 (December 2003) | ||
First international | |||
(Guatemala City, Guatemala; 4 March 1948) | |||
Last international | |||
(Willemstad, Curaçao; 31 October 2010) | |||
Biggest win | |||
(Caracas, Venezuela; 15 January 1959) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
(Amsterdam, Netherlands; 5 September 1962) (Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 8 December 1973) | |||
CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup | |||
Appearances | 4 (first in 1963) | ||
Best result | Third place, 1963, 1969 |
The Netherlands Antilles team never qualified for the FIFA World Cup. The country managed to come third in the CONCACAF championships of 1963 and 1969; during the 1963 tournament they were unofficial football world champions for four days after beating Mexico and before losing to Costa Rica.[1]
History
editUnder the name Curaçao, the team played its first international game in 1934 (against Suriname, which was then still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well) and continued to use the name Curaçao until the qualifications for the World Championships of 1958,[2] although the name of the area had changed from "Territory of Curaçao" to "Netherlands Antilles" in 1948.
Dissolution of country
editThe Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as a unified political entity on 10 October 2010, and the five constituent islands took on new constitutional statuses within the Kingdom of the Netherlands,[3] forming 2 new countries (Curaçao and Sint Maarten) and 3 new special municipalities of the Netherlands (namely Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius).
At the time of the dissolution, the team was about to compete in the qualification tournament for the 2010 Caribbean Championship, and finally competed under an obsolete country name. Sint Maarten national football team, as well as Bonaire national football team are already members of CONCACAF, but are not members of FIFA. The Curaçao national football team took the place of the Netherlands Antilles as a FIFA member.[4]
Successor teams
editBoth FIFA and CONCACAF consider the Curaçaoan national team to be the direct and sole successor of the Netherlands Antilles national football team. The teams of other territories were inducted as fully new members.
Nation | FIFA Active | International tournament(s) | Round |
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(since 2011) | 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup | Group stage | |
2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup | Quarter-final | ||
2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup | Withdrew | ||
(since 2010) | |||
(since 2010) | |||
n/a | |||
n/a |
Coaching history
edit- Caretaker manager are listed in italics.
Pedro Celestino Dacunha (1957–65)
Wilhelm Canword (1973)
Jan Zwartkruis[a] (1978–81)
Rob Groener (1983–85)
Wilhelm Canword (1988)[5]
Jan Zwartkruis (1992–94)[6]
Etienne Siliee (1996)[7]
Henry Caldera (2000–02)[8]
Pim Verbeek (2003–05)[9]
Etienne Siliee (2005–07)[10]
Leen Looyen (2007–09)[11]
Remko Bicentini (2009–10)[12]
Henry Caldera (2010)[13]
- ^ Jan Zwartkruis served as manager of the Netherlands as well as the Netherlands Antilles concurrently from 1978 to 1981
Competitive record
edit- *Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.
FIFA World Cup
editFIFA World Cup record | qualification record | |||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as |
as | |||||||||||||
did not enter | did not enter | |||||||||||||
did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||
as |
as | |||||||||||||
did not qualify | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | ||||||||
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |||||||||
CONCACAF Championship | ||||||||||||||
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
Total | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 31 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 54 |
CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup
editCONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
Third place | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||
Fifth place | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 16 | Qualified automatically | |||||||
did not qualify | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||
Third place | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | Qualified automatically | |||||||
Withdrew | Withdrew | |||||||||||||
Sixth place | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 19 | Qualified automatically | |||||||
did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||
4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
1985 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||
1989 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||
Caribbean Cup | ||||||||||||||
did not enter | ||||||||||||||
did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
did not enter | ||||||||||||||
did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||
did not enter | Caribbean Cup | |||||||||||||
did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
Total | Third Place | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 27 | 55 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 35 |
CCCF Championship
editCCCF Championship record | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA |
as | |||||||
Third place | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 12 | |
did not enter | |||||||
Fourth place | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 16 | |
did not enter | |||||||
Fourth place | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 9 | |
Runners-up | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | |
Runners-up | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | |
as | |||||||
Runners-up | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | |
First round | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
Total | Runners-up | 35 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 78 | 60 |
CFU Caribbean Cup
editCFU Championship & Caribbean Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
did not enter | did not enter | |||||||||||||
did not qualify | Result Unknown | |||||||||||||
did not enter | did not enter | |||||||||||||
Group stage | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 4 | ||
did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
did not enter | did not enter | |||||||||||||
did not qualify | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 | ||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | ||
did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||
did not enter | did not enter | |||||||||||||
did not qualify | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||
5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | |||||||||
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | |||||||||
Total | Group stage | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 58 | 66 |
Olympic Games
edit- –1980: Amateur squads
- 1984–1988: Professional squads
- 1992–present : Under-23 squads
Olympic Games record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as |
as | |||||||||||||
did not enter | Declined participation | |||||||||||||
as |
as | |||||||||||||
First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | |||||||
did not enter | Declined participation | |||||||||||||
did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||
did not enter | Declined participation | |||||||||||||
Under-23 Tournament | Under-23 Tournament | |||||||||||||
Total | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Pan American Games
edit- 1951–1983: Amateur squads
Pan American Games record | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as | ||||||||
did not enter | ||||||||
Bronze Medal | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 13 | ||
as | ||||||||
Since |
did not enter | |||||||
Total | Bronze Medal | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 13 |
Central American and Caribbean Games
edit- 1930–1946: Full senior squads
- 1950–1986: Amateur squads
Central American and Caribbean Games record | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as | ||||||||
did not enter | ||||||||
Bronze Medal | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 10 | ||
Gold Medal | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 6 | ||
did not enter | ||||||||
as | ||||||||
Silver Medal | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | ||
Gold Medal | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | ||
Silver Medal | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | ||
Silver Medal | * | * | * | * | * | * | ||
Unknown | ||||||||
Group stage | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 16 | ||
Group stage | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||
Group stage | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
Since |
Under-23 Tournament | |||||||
Total | Gold Medal | 36 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 99 | 55 |
All-time record against other nations
editUpdated 31 May 2012[14]
Team | Pld | W | D | L |
---|---|---|---|---|
18 | 1 | 4 | 13 | |
17 | 1 | 6 | 10 | |
16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | |
16 | 1 | 4 | 11 | |
15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | |
12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
10 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | |
9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | |
9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Total | 191 | 52 | 50 | 89 |
Honours
editCompetition | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
World Cup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Confederations Cup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Olympic Games | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
- This is a list of honours for the senior Netherlands Antilles national team
- CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup:
- CFU Caribbean Cup:
- Fourth place (1): 1989
Other tournaments
edit- Central American and Caribbean Games:
- Four-Nations Tournament
- Winners (1): 1944
- Phillip Seaga Cup :
- Winners (1): 1963
- Inter Expo Cup / Chippie Polar Cup:
- Parbo Bier Cup:
- Winners (1): 2004
See also
edit- Bonaire national football team
- Curaçao national football team (1921–1958) – the team before the change of country name to Netherlands Antilles
- Curaçao national football team – the successor to the team
- Sint Maarten national football team
- Netherlands national football team
References
edit- ^ "UFWC results". Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ "History of the FIFA worldcup preliminary competition (By year)" (PDF). FIFA. 19 September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ "Antillen opgeheven op 10-10-2010" (in Dutch). NOS. 1 October 2009. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
- ^ "Curaçao page on". FIFA. 12 November 2011. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ "1988 Matches North and Central America and Caribbean". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Netherlandse Antillen " Selectie FIFA WK KW Concacaf 1992/1993". Voetbal.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "1996 Matches North and Central America and Caribbean". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Von Trinidad bis Uruguay: 777 Spiele und 2452 Tore". FIFA. 17 May 2002. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Pim Verbeek nieuwe bondscoach Antillen". Voetbal International. 15 October 2003. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Digicel Caribbean Championship...Dominica is 3rd team in Guyana group, Aruba for group A". Kaieteur News. 28 July 2008. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Nederlandse Antillen in zee met Leen Looyen". Voetbal International. 17 December 2007. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "'Bondscoach' Remko Bicentini hoopt op finale tegen NEC". De Gelderlander. 22 May 2010. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Nederlandse Antillen | Antias Hulandes Squad (2010)". National Football Teams. 31 October 2010. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Curaçao Match history". Soccerway.com. 11 January 2012. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
External links
edit- Netherlands Antilles at FIFA.com (archived)