Netherlands national football team: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Team colours
Home 　 Away
Nickname
Oranje (Orange)
Association
Royal Netherlands Football Association
Current coach
Marco van Basten, 2004-
Most capped player
Frank de Boer: 112
Highest goalscorer
Patrick Kluivert: 40
First International
Belgium 1 - 4 Netherlands (Antwerp, Belgium; 30 April, 1905)
Largest win
Netherlands 9 - 0 Norway (Rotterdam, Netherlands; 1 November, 1972)
Largest defeat
Netherlands 2 - 12 England Amateur (The Hague, Netherlands; 1 April, 1907)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 7 (First: 1934) Best result: Runners-up 1974, 1978
European Championships
Finals appearances: 7 (First: 1976) Best result: Winners 1988

The Netherlands national football team is one of Europe's best national teams, having won the European Championship in 1988, and having reached two consecutive World Cup finals, but losing both (1974 and 1978).

World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Round 1
• 1938 - Round 1
• 1950 - Did not enter
• 1954 - Did not enter
• 1958 - Did not qualify
• 1962 - Did not qualify
• 1966 - Did not qualify
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Runners-up
• 1978 - Runners-up
• 1982 - Did not qualify
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1990 - Round 2
• 1994 - Quarter finals
• 1998 - Semi finals
• 2002 - Did not qualify

• 1960 - Did not enter
• 1964 - Did not qualify
• 1968 - Did not qualify
• 1972 - Did not qualify
• 1976 - Semifinals
• 1980 - Round 1
• 1984 - Did not qualify
• 1988 - Winners
• 1992 - Semifinals
• 1996 - Quarterfinals
• 2000 - Semifinals
• 2004 - Semifinals

• Johan Cruyff
• Edgar Davids
• Frank de Boer
• Ruud Gullit
• Patrick Kluivert
• Johan Neeskens
• Rob Rensenbrink
• Frank Rijkaard
• Clarence Seedorf
• Marco van Basten
• René van de Kerkhof
• Willy van de Kerkhof
• Edwin van der Sar
• Ruud van Nistelrooy