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 | |||
Netherlands Antilles 3–1
Panama ( Guatemala City, Guatemala; 4 March 1948) | |||
Last international | |||
Netherlands Antilles 2–2
Suriname ( Willemstad, Curaçao; 31 October 2010) | |||
Biggest win | |||
Netherlands Antilles 15–0
Puerto Rico ( Caracas, Venezuela; 15 January 1959) | |||
Biggest defeat | |||
Netherlands 8–0
Netherlands Antilles ( Amsterdam, Netherlands; 5 September 1962) Mexico 8–0 Netherlands Antilles ( 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 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.
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]
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, [2] although the name of the area had changed from "Territory of Curaçao" to "Netherlands Antilles" in 1948.
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, [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]
Both 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 republics were inducted as fully new members.
Nation | FIFA Active | International tournament(s) | Round |
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Curaçao 2011-present | (since 2011) | 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup | Group stage |
2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup | Quarter-final | ||
2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup | Withdrew | ||
Sint Maarten 2010-present | (since 2010) | ||
Bonaire 2010-present | (since 2010) |
FIFA World Cup record | qualification record | |||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as Territory of Curaçao | as Territory of Curaçao | |||||||||||||
1930 | did not enter | did not enter | ||||||||||||
1934 | ||||||||||||||
1938 | ||||||||||||||
1950 | ||||||||||||||
1954 | ||||||||||||||
1958 | did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||||||
as Netherlands Antilles | as Netherlands Antilles | |||||||||||||
1962 | did not qualify | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | |||||||
1966 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
1970 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||
1974 | 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 record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
1963 | Third place | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
1965 | Fifth place | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 16 | Qualified automatically | ||||||
1967 | did not qualify | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||||
1969 | Third place | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | Qualified automatically | ||||||
1971 | Withdrew | Withdrew | ||||||||||||
1973 | Sixth place | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 19 | Qualified automatically | ||||||
1977 | 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 | Caribbean Cup | |||||||||||||
1993 | did not enter | |||||||||||||
1996 | did not qualify | |||||||||||||
1998 | ||||||||||||||
2000 | ||||||||||||||
2002 | did not enter | |||||||||||||
2003 | did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |||||||
2005 | did not enter | Caribbean Cup | ||||||||||||
2007 | did not qualify | |||||||||||||
2009 | ||||||||||||||
2011 | ||||||||||||||
Total | Third Place | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 27 | 55 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 35 |
CCCF Championship record | |||||||
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Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA |
as Territory of Curaçao | |||||||
1941 | Third place | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 12 |
1943 | did not enter | ||||||
1946 | |||||||
1948 | Fourth place | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 16 |
1951 | did not enter | ||||||
1953 | Fourth place | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 9 |
1955 | Runners-up | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 |
1957 | Runners-up | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
as Netherlands Antilles | |||||||
1960 | Runners-up | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 |
1961 | First round | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Total | Runners-up | 35 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 78 | 60 |
CFU Championship & Caribbean Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
1978 | did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
1979 | did not enter | did not enter | ||||||||||||
1981 | ||||||||||||||
1983 | did not qualify | Result Unknown | ||||||||||||
1985 | did not enter | did not enter | ||||||||||||
1988 | ||||||||||||||
1989 | Group stage | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 4 | |
1990 | did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
1991 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
1992 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
1993 | did not enter | did not enter | ||||||||||||
1994 | ||||||||||||||
1995 | did not qualify | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 11 | |||||||
1996 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
1997 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
1998 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | |
1999 | did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
2001 | did not enter | did not enter | ||||||||||||
2005 | ||||||||||||||
2007 | did not qualify | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |||||||
2008 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | ||||||||
2010 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | ||||||||
Total | Group stage | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 38 | 11 | 10 | 17 | 58 | 66 |
Olympic Games record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as Territory of Curaçao | as Territory of Curaçao | |||||||||||||
1928 | did not enter | Declined participation | ||||||||||||
1936 | ||||||||||||||
1948 | ||||||||||||||
as Netherlands Antilles | as Netherlands Antilles | |||||||||||||
1952 | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | ||||||
1956 | did not enter | Declined participation | ||||||||||||
1960 | did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |||||||
1964 | did not enter | Declined participation | ||||||||||||
1968 | ||||||||||||||
1972 | ||||||||||||||
1976 | ||||||||||||||
1980 | ||||||||||||||
1984 | ||||||||||||||
1988 | ||||||||||||||
1992 to present | Under-23 Tournament | Under-23 Tournament | ||||||||||||
Total | First round | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Pan American Games record | ||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as Territory of Curaçao | ||||||||
1951 | did not enter | |||||||
1955 | Bronze Medal | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 13 | |
as Netherlands Antilles | ||||||||
Since 1959 | did not enter | |||||||
Total | Bronze Medal | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 13 |
Central American and Caribbean Games record | ||||||||
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Year | Result | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
as Territory of Curaçao | ||||||||
1930 | did not enter | |||||||
1935 | ||||||||
1938 | ||||||||
1946 | Bronze Medal | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 10 | |
1950 | Gold Medal | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 6 | |
1954 | did not enter | |||||||
as Netherlands Antilles | ||||||||
1959 | Silver Medal | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | |
1962 | Gold Medal | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | |
1966 | Silver Medal | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | |
1970 | Silver Medal | * | * | * | * | * | * | |
1974 | 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 | Under-23 Tournament | |||||||
Total | Gold Medal | 36 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 99 | 55 |
Updated 31 May 2012 [14]
Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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Haiti | 18 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 17 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
Suriname | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
El Salvador | 16 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
Costa Rica | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
Mexico | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
Jamaica | 10 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Honduras | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Cuba | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
Antigua and Barbuda | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
Guatemala | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Nicaragua | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
Panama | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Venezuela | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Guyana | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Puerto Rico | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Grenada | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
United States | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Aruba | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Dominican Republic | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Netherlands | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Saint Lucia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Barbados | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Bermuda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cayman Islands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 191 | 52 | 50 | 89 |
Competition | Total | |||
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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 |