Netherlands national under-21 football team

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Netherlands

Nickname

Jong Oranje

Association

Koninklijke Nederlandse
Voetbal Bond

Coach

Foppe de Haan

Captain

Ron Vlaar

Most caps

Arnold Bruggink (31)

Top scorer

Klaas Jan Huntelaar (18)





Home colours





Away colours

First International
U-23: Bulgaria 3-1 Netherlands
Sofia, April 17, 1968
U-21: East Germany 2-0 Netherlands
Rostock, November 14, 1978

Largest win
San Marino 0-7 Netherlands
San Marino, April 29, 1997

Worst defeat
3-0 defeats on five occasions
Records for competitive
matches only.

UEFA U-21 Championship

Appearances

6 (First in 1988)

Best result

Winner, 2006

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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 Football Championship, held every two years.

Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the Dutch Under-21 team was formed. The team does 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 European Under-21 Football Championship. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar became topscorer of this 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 Netherlands national under-21 football team will now defend their title in their own country because in January 2006 the Netherlands were chosen to hold the European Under-21 Football Championship 2007.

1 UEFA U-23 Championship Record
2 UEFA U-21 Championship Record
3 Current squad
4 See also
5 Sources/External links

[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: Losing quarter-finalists.
2004: Did not qualify. Finished 4th of 5 in qualification group.
2006: Winners.
2007: Qualified as host

[edit] Current squad

The following players have been named for a friendly match against the Republic of Ireland on March 27.

Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Goals	Club
GK	Job Bulters	1986-03-22			AZ
GK	Boy Waterman	1984-01-24			AZ
GK	Piet Velthuizen	1986-11-03	0	0	Vitesse
DF	Royston Drenthe	1987-04-08	4	1	Feyenoord
DF	Jens Janse	1986-07-01	1	0	Willem II
DF	Calvin Jong-a-Pin	1986-07-18	3	0	SC Heerenveen
DF	Milano Koenders	1986-07-31			RKC Waalwijk
DF	Arnold Kruiswijk	1984-11-02			FC Groningen
DF	Erik Pieters	1988-08-07	1	0	FC Utrecht
DF	Ron Vlaar	1985-02-16			Feyenoord
DF	Gianni Zuiverloon	1986-12-30			SC Heerenveen
DF	Kees van Buuren	1986-07-27	1	0	FC Utrecht
MF	Ismaïl Aissati	1988-08-16			FC Twente
MF	Otman Bakkal	1985-02-27			FC Twente
MF	Luigi Bruins	1987-03-09			Excelsior
MF	Hedwiges Maduro	1985-02-13	3	0	Ajax
MF	Robbert Schilder	1986-04-18			Heracles Almelo
MF	Evander Sno	1987-04-09	2	0	Celtic
FW	Roy Beerens	1987-12-22	2	0	NEC
FW	Tim Janssen	1986-03-06	1	0	RKC Waalwijk
FW	Julian Jenner	1984-02-28			AZ
FW	Jeremain Lens	1987-11-24	2	0	AZ
FW	Sherjill MacDonald	1984-11-20			West Bromwich Albion
FW	Haris Međunjanin	1985-03-08			Sparta
FW	Daniël de Ridder	1984-03-06			Celta de Vigo
FW	Maceo Rigters	1984-01-22	3	2	NAC Breda

[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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