Football World Cup 1938 / Netherlands
this article deals with the Dutch national football team at the 1938 World Cup in France
The Netherlands took part in a soccer world championship for the second time since 1934 .
qualification
Group 9
11/28/1937 03/13/1938 04/03/1938 |
Rotterdam Luxembourg Antwerp |
Netherlands - Luxembourg Luxembourg - Belgium Belgium - Netherlands |
4: 0 (1: 0) 2: 3 (2: 1) 1: 1 (0: 1) |
country | Gates | Pt | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Netherlands ** | 5: 1 | 3: 1 | ||||
2. | Belgium ** | 4: 3 | 3: 1 | ||||
3. | Luxembourg | 2: 7 | 0: 4 |
In Group 9, the Netherlands played against Belgium and Luxembourg . After Luxembourg lost to the two favorites in the group, the last game between Belgium and the Netherlands that ended 1-1 was meaningless as both teams had already qualified for the finals.
Contingent
competition
June 5, 1938 in Le Havre | |||
Czechoslovakia | - | Netherlands | 3: 0 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0) |
In Le Havre, the Dutch scored 0-0 after 90 minutes against the ČSR , a secret favorite of the tournament. In extra time, however, Kostalek, Nejedlý and Zeman scored to make it 3-0 for the Czechoslovaks, and the Dutch team had to return home as expected.
Web links
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