The Netherlands men's national volleyball team represents the

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in FIVB tournaments. Volleyball is the most popular indoor sport in the country, with over 125,000 associates. The team had their most successful phase beginning in the 1990s under coaches

Arie Selinger Aryeh "Lonk" Selinger (born 5 April 1937) is an Israeli volleyball manager and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time. Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years ...

and

Joop Alberda Joop Alberda (born 25 October 1952 in Oosterwolde, Friesland) is a retired volleyball coach from the Netherlands. In 1996, under his directions, the Dutch Men's National Team won the gold medal in Atlanta, Georgia by defeating Italy in the f ...

, reaching various finals for international tournaments and winning both the

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and the World League in 1996. Netherlands in

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won silver medal 1994 in Greece.

Results

Olympic Games

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

World Championship

FIVB World Cup

World Grand Champions Cup

European Championship

* 1997 Netherlands — Gold medal with cup

Gold medal *:

Peter Blangé Peter Blangé (born 9 December 1964 in Voorburg, South Holland) is a retired volleyball player (game), player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Volleyball at the 1988 Summer ...

Albert Cristina Albert Maximo Cristina (born 18 November 1970 in Curaçao, Dutch Antilles) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From ...

, Robert van Es,

Bas van de Goor Sebastiaan Jacques Henri "Bas" van de Goor (born 4 September 1971, in Oss) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He was elected twi ...

Mike van de Goor Mike Willem Frank van de Goor (born 14 May 1973 in Oss) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. As a reserve-player he won the gold medal at h ...

Guido Görtzen Guido Görtzen (born 9 November 1970 in Heerlen, Limburg) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. There he won the gold med ...

Jochem de Gruijter Jochem Pieter de Gruijter (born 18 April 1978 in Leidschendam, South Holland) is a male volleyball player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national men's team that won the gold medal at the 1997 European Championships on home ...

Henk-Jan Held Hendrik Jan ("Henk-Jan") Held (born 12 November 1967 in Renswoude, Utrecht (province), Utrecht) is a volleyball player (game), player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Volleyb ...

Reinder Nummerdor Reinder Aart Nummerdor (born 10 September 1976) is a Dutch volleyball player, who represented his native country at five consecutive Summer Olympics. Two times as a member of the indoor volleyball team in 2000 and 2004, and 3 more times after swi ...

FIVB World League

Nations League

European League

Team

Current squad

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Roberto Piazza Roberto Piazza (born 29 January 1968) is an Italian professional volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Netherlands national team and Allianz Milano. Honours As a player * CEV Cup ** 1987–88 – with Maxic ...

Coach history

* Benedykt Krysik *

* Toon Gerbrands *

Bert Goedkoop Bert Goedkoop (born February 15, 1956) is a Dutch volleyball player and coach. Among his accomplishments, he was head coach of the 2001 Dutch national men's team when it took 7th at the World League finals in Katowice and head coach of the Netherl ...

* Arie Cornelis Brokking *

* Edwin Benne *

Gido Vermeulen Gido is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Gido Babilonia (1966–2007), Filipino basketball player * Gido Kokars (1921–2017), Latvian conductor * Gidō Shūshin (1325–1388), Japanese Zen monk See also * Gino (given name) ...

Kit providers

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Netherland national volleyball team.

Sponsorship

Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like Ilionx other sponsors: Lotto, Eilers Sport, Johan Cruyff Foundation, Zilveren Kruis, DELA. Voor Elkaar and BvdGF.

References

External links

Official websiteFIVB profile
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