The Netherlands Antilles national football team (; ) 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.

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.

History

Under 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, although the name of the area had changed from "Territory of Curaçao" to "Netherlands Antilles" in 1948.

Dissolution of country

The 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, forming two new countries (Curaçao and Sint Maarten) and three 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.

Successor teams

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Coaching history

:Caretaker manager are listed in italics.

  • Pedro Celestino Dacunha (1957–65)
  • Wilhelm Canword (1973)
  • Jan Zwartkruis (1978–81)
  • Rob Groener (1983–85)
  • Wilhelm Canword (1988)
  • Jan Zwartkruis (1992–94)
  • Etienne Siliee (1996)
  • Henry Caldera (2000–02)
  • Pim Verbeek (2003–05)
  • Etienne Siliee (2005–07)
  • Leen Looyen (2007–09)
  • Remko Bicentini (2009–10)
  • Henry Caldera (2010)

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Competitive record

:*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

FIFA World Cup

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

!colspan=8|FIFA World Cup record

|rowspan=27|

!colspan=6|qualification record

|-

!Year

!Result

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

|-

!colspan=8| as Territory of Curaçao

!colspan=6| as Territory of Curaçao

|-

| 1930||colspan=7 rowspan=5|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=5|did not enter

|-

| 1934

|-

| 1938

|-

| 1950

|-

| 1954

|-

| 1958||colspan=7|did not qualify

||3||1||0||2||4||7

|-

!colspan=8| as Netherlands Antilles

!colspan=6| as Netherlands Antilles

|-

| 1962||colspan=7 rowspan=13|did not qualify

||6||2||2||2||4||14

|-

| 1966

||4||1||2||1||2||3

|-

| 1970

||4||1||0||3||3||9

|-

| 1974

|colspan=6 rowspan=5|CONCACAF Championship

|-

| 1978

|-

| 1982

|-

| 1986

|-

| 1990

|-

| 1994

||2||0||1||1||1||4

|-

| 1998

||2||0||1||1||1||2

|-

| 2002

||2||0||1||1||1||6

|-

| 2006

||4||1||0||3||4||8

|-

| 2010

||4||2||1||1||3||1

|-

!Total|| – || – || – || – || – || – || –

!31||8||8||15||23||54

|}

CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

!colspan=8|CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup record

|rowspan=24|

!colspan=6|Qualification record

|-

!Year

!Result

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

|- bgcolor="#cc9966"

| 1963||Third place||6||3||0||3||10||8

||2||2||0||0||4||1

|-

| 1965||Fifth place||5||0||2||3||4||16

|colspan=6|Qualified automatically

|-

| 1967||colspan=8|did not qualify

||4||0||2||2||4||6

|- bgcolor="#cc9966"

| 1969||Third place||5||2||1||2||9||12

|colspan=6|Qualified automatically

|-

| 1971||colspan=8|Withdrew

|colspan=6|Withdrew

|-

| 1973||Sixth place||5||0||2||3||4||19

|colspan=6|Qualified automatically

|-

| 1977||colspan=8 rowspan=5|did not qualify

|2||0||0||2||1||9

|-

| 1981

|4||0||3||1||1||2

|-

|1985

|2||0||1||1||0||4

|-

|1989

|4||2||0||2||4||7

|-

| 1991

|colspan=6 rowspan=6|Caribbean Cup

|-

| 1993||colspan=8|did not enter

|-

| 1996||colspan=8 rowspan=3|did not qualify

|-

| 1998

|-

| 2000

|-

| 2002||colspan=8|did not enter

|-

| 2003||colspan=8|did not qualify

||4||1||1||2||3||6

|-

| 2005||colspan=8|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=4|Caribbean Cup

|-

| 2007||colspan=8 rowspan=3|did not qualify

|-

| 2009

|-

| 2011

|-

!Total||Third Place||21||5||5||11||27||55

!22||5||7||10||17||35

|}

CCCF Championship

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

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!colspan=8|CCCF Championship record

|-

!Year

!Result

!GP

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

|-

!colspan=8| as Territory of Curaçao

|-bgcolor=#cfaa88

| 1941||Third place||4||1||2||1||16||12

|-

| 1943||colspan=7 rowspan=2|did not enter

|-

| 1946

|-bgcolor=LemonChiffon

| 1948||Fourth place||8||2||2||4||14||16

|-

| 1951||colspan=7|did not enter

|-bgcolor=LemonChiffon

| 1953||Fourth place||6||2||2||2||17||9

|-bgcolor=Silver

| 1955||Runners-up||6||4||0||2||11||7

|-bgcolor=Silver

|style="border:3px solid red"| 1957||Runners-up||4||2||1||1||7||4

|-

!colspan=8| as Netherlands Antilles

|-bgcolor=Silver

| 1960||Runners-up||4||2||2||0||9||7

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| 1961||First round||3||1||1||1||4||5

|-

!Total||Runners-up||35||14||10||11||78||60

|}

CFU Caribbean Cup

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|-

!colspan=8|CFU Championship & Caribbean Cup record

|rowspan=30|

!colspan=6|Qualification record

|-

!Year

!Result

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

|-

| 1978||colspan=8|did not qualify

||4||1||1||2||1||5

|-

| 1979||colspan=8 rowspan=2|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=2|did not enter

|-

| 1981

|-

| 1983||colspan=8|did not qualify

|colspan=6|Result Unknown

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| 1985||colspan=8 rowspan=2|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=2|did not enter

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| 1988

|-

| 1989||Group stage||2||0||2||0||2||2

||4||3||0||1||21||4

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| 1990||colspan=7 rowspan=3|did not qualify

||2||0||2||0||2||2

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| 1991

||2||0||0||2||0||5

|-

| 1992

||3||1||1||1||3||3

|-

| 1993||colspan=7 rowspan=2|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=2|did not enter

|-

| 1994

|-

| 1995||colspan=7 rowspan=3|did not qualify

||5||3||1||1||11||11

|-

| 1996

||1||0||0||1||0||1

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| 1997

||1||0||0||1||1||2

|-

| 1998||Group stage||3||0||0||3||2||9

||3||2||1||0||6||4

|-

| 1999||colspan=7|did not qualify

||2||0||1||1||2||4

|-

| 2001||colspan=7 rowspan=2|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=2|did not enter

|-

| 2005

|-

| 2007||colspan=7 rowspan=3|did not qualify

||3||0||1||2||1||7

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| 2008

||5||1||1||3||5||11

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| 2010

||3||0||1||2||5||7

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!Total||Group stage||5||0||2||3||4||11

!38||11||10||17||58||66

|}

Olympic Games

  • –1980: Amateur squads
  • 1984–1988: Professional squads
  • 1992–present : Under-23 squads

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

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!colspan=8|Olympic Games record

|rowspan=20|

!colspan=6|Qualification record

|-

!Year

!Result

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

|-

!colspan=8| as Territory of Curaçao

!colspan=6| as Territory of Curaçao

|-

| 1928||colspan=7 rowspan=3|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=3| Declined participation

|-

| 1936

|-

| 1948

|-

| 1952||First round||1||0||0||1||1||2

|colspan=6| —

|-

| 1956||colspan=7|did not enter||colspan=6| Declined participation

|-

!colspan=8| as Netherlands Antilles

!colspan=6| as Netherlands Antilles

|-

| 1960||colspan=7|did not qualify

||2||0||1||1||3||6

|-

| 1964||colspan=7 rowspan=7|did not enter

|colspan=6 rowspan=7|Declined participation

|-

| 1968

|-

| 1972

|-

| 1976

|-

| 1980

|-

| 1984

|-

| 1988

|-

|1992 to present||colspan=7|Under-23 Tournament

|colspan=6|Under-23 Tournament

|-

!Total||First round||1||0||0||1||1||2

!2||0||1||1||3||6

|}

Pan American Games

  • 1951–1983: Amateur squads

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

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!colspan=8|Pan American Games record

|-

!Year

!Result

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

|-

!colspan=8| as Territory of Curaçao

|-

| 1951||colspan=8|did not enter

|-bgcolor=#cfaa88

| 1955||Bronze Medal||6||2||0||4||11||13

|-

!colspan=8| as Netherlands Antilles

|-

|Since 1959||colspan=8|did not enter

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!Total||Bronze Medal||6||2||0||4||11||13

|}

Central American and Caribbean Games

  • 1930–1946: Full senior squads
  • 1950–1986: Amateur squads

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|-

!colspan=9|Central American and Caribbean Games record

|-

!Year

!Result

!Pld

!W

!D*

!L

!GF

!GA

|-

!colspan=8| as Territory of Curaçao

|-

| 1930||colspan=8 rowspan=3|did not enter

|-

| 1935

|-

| 1938

|-bgcolor=#cfaa88

| 1946||Bronze Medal||6||3||2||1||25||10

|-bgcolor=gold

| 1950||Gold Medal||6||4||1||1||20||6

|-

| 1954||colspan=8|did not enter

|-

!colspan=8| as Netherlands Antilles

|-bgcolor=silver

| 1959||Silver Medal||4||2||1||1||21||5

|-bgcolor=gold

| 1962||Gold Medal||5||5||0||0||16||5

|-bgcolor=silver

| 1966||Silver Medal||5||4||0||1||11||4

|-bgcolor=silver

| 1970||Silver Medal||*||*||*||*||*||*

|-

| 1974||colspan=7|Unknown

|-

| 1978||Group stage||5||0||0||5||3||16

|-

| 1982||Group stage||3||1||1||1||2||6

|-

| 1986||Group stage||2||0||1||1||1||3

|-

| Since 1990||colspan=7|Under-23 Tournament

|-

!Total||Gold Medal||36||19||6||11||99||55

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All-time record against other nations

Updated 31 May 2012

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"

|-

!Team

!Pld

!W

!D

!L

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|18

|1

|4

|13

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|17

|1

|6

|10

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|16

|5

|4

|7

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|16

|1

|4

|11

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|15

|3

|1

|11

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|12

|2

|3

|7

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|10

|4

|3

|7

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|10

|2

|4

|4

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|9

|6

|1

|2

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|9

|5

|2

|2

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|9

|2

|5

|2

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|7

|6

|0

|1

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|7

|4

|1

|2

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|6

|3

|1

|2

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|6

|1

|1

|4

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|4

|4

|0

|0

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|4

|1

|3

|0

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|4

|0

|2

|2

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|2

|1

|1

|0

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|2

|0

|1

|1

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|2

|0

|1

|1

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1

|0

|1

|0

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1

|0

|1

|0

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1

|0

|0

|1

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1

|0

|0

|1

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1

|0

|0

|1

|-

| style="text-align:left;"|

|1

|0

|0

|1

|- class="sortbottom"

|Total

|191

|52

|50

|89

|}

Honours

Continental

  • CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup:
  • Third place (2): 1963, 1969

Regional

  • CFU Caribbean Cup:
  • Fourth place (1): 1989

Friendly

  • Phillip Seaga Cup :
  • Winners (1): 1963
  • Inter Expo Cup / Chippie Polar Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2004
  • Runners-up (2): 2006, 2008
  • Fourth place (1): 2005
  • Parbo Bier Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2004

{| class="wikitable" style="width:30%; font-size:90%; text-align:center;"

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!Competition !! !! !! !!Total

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|align=left|World Cup

|0 || 0 || 0 || 0

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|align=left|CONCACAF Championship / Gold Cup

|0 || 0 || 2 || 2

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|align=left|Confederations Cup

|0 || 0 || 0 || 0

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|align=left|Olympic Games

|0 || 0 || 0 || 0

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! Total !! 0 !! 0 !! 2 !! 2

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See also

  • 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

  • Netherlands Antilles at FIFA.com (archived)

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