The Netherlands Antilles national football team (; ) was the national team of the former

Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles (, ; ), also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba (island), Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, ...

from 1958 to 2010. It was controlled by the

Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie The Netherlands Antillean Football Union (, or NAVU) was the governing body of football in the former Netherlands Antilles between September 1958 and February 2011. Its jurisdiction consisted of the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire and (until 1986) Ar ...

. The NAVU consisted of

Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...

and

Bonaire Bonaire is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles, and is a Caribbean Netherlands, special municipality (officially Public body (Netherlands), "public body") of the Netherlands. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west (Windward an ...

Aruba Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná Peninsula, Paraguaná and northwest of Curaçao. In 19 ...

split in 1986 and has its own team. The Netherlands Antilles team never qualified for the

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. The country managed to come third in the

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championships of

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and

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; 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

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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 2 new countries (

and

Sint Maarten Sint Maarten () is a Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of North America. With a population of 58,477 as of June 2023 on an area of , it encompasses ...

) and 3 new '' special municipalities'' of the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

(''namely

Saba Saba may refer to: Places * Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea * Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras * Șaba or Șaba-Târg, the Romanian name for Shabo, a village in Ukraine * Saba, ...

and

Sint Eustatius Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is an island in the Caribbean. It is a Caribbean Netherlands, special municipality (officially "Public body (Netherlands), public body") of the Netherlands. The island is in the northern Leeward Islands ...

''). 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 The Sint Maarten national football team () is the football team of Sint Maarten, the Dutch half of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, and is controlled by the Sint Maarten Football Federation. Sint Maarten is not a member of FIFA, and ther ...

, as well as

Bonaire national football team The Bonaire national football team (; ) is the national football team of the Caribbean island of Bonaire, a public body of the Netherlands. It is under the control of the Federashon Futból Boneriano (). It became a member of the CFU and an as ...

are already members of

, but are not members of

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. The

Curaçao national football team The Curaçao national football team (; ) represents Curaçao in international football, and is controlled by the Federashon Futbòl Kòrsou (). Following a constitutional change that allowed its predecessor, the Colony of Curaçao and Depend ...

took the place of the Netherlands Antilles as a FIFA member.

Successor teams

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) *

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(2003–05) * Etienne Siliee (2005–07) *

Leen Looyen Leen Looijen (born 9 July 1947) is a Dutch football manager, who has worked in N.E.C., NAC Breda, RKC Waalwijk, FC St. Gallen (Swiss), FC Emmen, Willem II, FC Groningen and Vitesse Arnhem. Career Looijen was born in Wageningen. He was head c ...

(2007–09) *

Remko Bicentini Remko Bicentini (born 20 February 1968) is a Dutch-Curaçaoan football manager and former professional player. Playing career Bicentini, who played as a central defender, began his professional career in the Netherlands with NEC, making 24 appe ...

(2009–10) * ''Henry Caldera'' (2010)

Competitive record

:''*Draws include knockout matches decided on

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.''

FIFA World Cup

CONCACAF Championship & Gold Cup

CCCF Championship

CFU Caribbean Cup

Olympic Games

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

Pan American Games

* 1951–1983: Amateur squads

Central American and Caribbean Games

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

All-time record against other nations

''Updated 31 May 2012''

Honours

Continental

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/ Gold Cup: ** Third place (2):

Regional

* CFU Caribbean Cup: ** Fourth place (1):

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Friendly

* Phillip Seaga Cup : ** Winners (1): 1963 * Inter Expo Cup / Chippie Polar Cup: ** Winners (1):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

** Runners-up (2):

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

** Fourth place (1):

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Parbo Bier Cup The Parbo Bier Cup is a bi-annual International football tournament, which is organized by the Stichting Internationaal Voetbal Suriname (SIVS) of which former Surinamese-Dutch International Stanley Menzo is the chairman. The beer brewery Parbo ...

: ** Winners (1): 2004

References

External links

Netherlands Antilles
at FIFA.com (archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Netherlands Antilles National Football Team Caribbean national association football teams

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