Netherlands national under-21 football team
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| Nickname(s) | Jong Oranje (Young Orange) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Association | Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Foppe de Haan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captain | Gianni Zuiverloon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Arnold Bruggink (31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (18) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U-23: Bulgaria 3-1 Netherlands Sofia, April 17, 1968 U-21: East Germany 2-0 Netherlands Rostock, November 14, 1978 |
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| Biggest win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Marino 0-7 Netherlands San Marino, April 29, 1997 |
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| Biggest defeat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3-0 defeats on five occasions matches only. |
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| UEFA U-21 Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 6 (First in 1988) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Winner, 2006, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Netherlands national football team is the national under-21 team of the Netherlands and is controlled by the Royal Netherlands Football Association. The team competes in the European Under-21 Championship, held every two years.
Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the Dutch Under-21 team was formed. The team did not have a very good record, failing to qualify for nine of the fifteen tournaments. The team did not enter for the 1978 competition, but since then has reached the semi-finals twice, and qualified for the last eight on three other occasions.
Since the under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two year competition, technically it is an U-23 competition. For this reason, the Netherlands' record in the preceding U-23 competitions is also shown. The first competitive match was in the "Under-23 Challenge", a match which they lost. The team qualified for the last eight of each of the three U23 tournaments.
In 2006 the Netherlands national under-21 football team of coach Foppe de Haan won the 2006 European Under-21 Championship. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar became top scorer and player of the tournament with 4 goals and also broke the 15-goals record of Roy Makaay and Arnold Jan Bruggink, in his last match in the Netherlands national under-21 football team he pushed this record to 18. The following year, Netherlands national under-21 football team successfully defended their title by winning the 2007 European Under-21 Championship in the final against Serbia with 4-1. Maceo Rigters was the top scorer of the competition with four goals and Royston Drenthe was the Player of the Tournament. The win meant that the Netherlands qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team failed to qualify for the 2009 European Under-21 Championship, after losing out to Switzerland in their final qualifying match.
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[edit] UEFA U-23 Championship Record
The Netherlands were randomly chosen to play holders Bulgaria for the title in a one-off match in Sofia, which the Netherlands lost.
- April 17, 1968: Bulgaria 3-1 Netherlands.
- 1972: Losing quarter-finalists.
- 1974: Losing quarter-finalists.
- 1976: Losing semi-finalists.
[edit] UEFA U-21 Championship Record
- 1978: Did not enter.
- 1980: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 3 in qualification group.
- 1982: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
- 1984: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
- 1986: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 4 in qualification group.
- 1988: Losing semi-finalists.
- 1990: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 4 in qualification group.
- 1992: Losing quarter-finalists.
- 1994: Did not qualify. Finished 5th of 6 in qualification group.
- 1996: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group.
- 1998: Fourth.
- 2000: Finished 3rd of 4 in finals group. Joint fifth.
- 2002: Lost in playoff.
- 2004: Did not qualify. Finished 4th of 5 in qualification group.
- 2006: Winners
- 2007: Winners
- 2009: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
[edit] Notable Players
- Johannes Franquis-Bonfrere
- Roy Makaay
- Arnold Bruggink
- Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
- Stijn Schaars
- Demy de Zeeuw
- Edson Braafheid
- Gijs Luirink
- Dwight Tiendalli
- Nicky Hofs
- Urby Emanuelson
- Hedwiges Maduro
- Otman Bakkal
- Ron Vlaar
- Ryan Babel
- Arnold Kruiswijk
- Ibrahim Afellay
- Royston Drenthe
- Jonathan de Guzman
[edit] Current Squad
Players called up by Foppe de Haan for the final two 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship qualification matches, against Norway and Switzerland.[1]
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[edit] Other players
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[edit] See also
[edit] Sources/External links
- UEFA Under-21 website Contains full results archive
- The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Contains full record of U-21/U-23 Championships.
- Official KNVB U-21 site in Dutch
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