Dutch women's national football team / World Championships

Netherlands
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

World Cup record scorer :	Lieke Martens and Vivianne Miedema (3 each)
World Cup record player:	4 players (11 games each)
Rank :	12
Balance sheet
11 World Cup games 7 wins 1 draw 3 defeats 14: 9 goals
statistics
First World Cup game Netherlands 1-0 New Zealand Edmonton ( CAN ); June 6, 2015
Biggest World Cup victories Netherlands 3: 1 Cameroon Valenciennes ( FRA ); June 15, 2019 Netherlands 2-0 Italy Valenciennes ( FRA ); June 29, 2019
Biggest World Cup defeat Netherlands 0-2 USA Lyon ( FRA ); 7th July 2019
successes
World Championship
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 2015 )
Best results	Vice World Champion 2019
Best placements in the countries that host the FIFA World Cup
(As of July 7, 2019 )

The article contains a detailed description of the Dutch national soccer team for women at world championships . Like their male colleagues , the Dutch women were able to become vice world champions, but only qualified for the 2015 World Cup finals for the first time in 2014. The Dutch women are the eleventh European team to qualify for a women's World Cup final.

Overview

year	Host country	Participation until ...	opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1991	People's Republic of China	not qualified				In qualifying for the European Women's Football Championship in 1991 , Denmark failed in the quarter-finals .
1995	Sweden	not qualified				In the qualification for the European Championship 1995 in Iceland failed, which, however, also failed to qualify for the World Cup.
1999	United States	not qualified				In the qualification of Norway and Germany failed.
2003	United States	not qualified				Failed in the qualification to Germany and England , which could not qualify either.
2007	People's Republic of China	not qualified				In the qualification of England failed.
2011	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification of Norway failed.
2015	Canada	Round of 16	Japan	13.	Roger Reijners
2019	France	final	United States	Vice world champion	Sarina Glotzbach-Wiegman	In qualification , the team prevailed in the playoffs of the best runners-up in the group against Denmark and Switzerland . In France, with three wins against Cameroon , Canada and New Zealand, they made it into the round of 16 against Japan as group winners.

statistics

(Information incl. 2019: eight world championships)

• not qualified: six times (75%)
• qualified: twice (25%)
  • Round of 16: once (12.5%, 2015)
  • Final: once (12.5%, 2019)
    • Vice World Champion: once (12.5%, 2019)

The tournaments

World Cup 1991 in the People's Republic of China

The Dutch women failed in the quarter-finals of qualifying for the 1991 European Women's Football Championship , which served as qualification for the first women's World Cup in the People's Republic of China . In the group stage, the Dutch had prevailed with three wins and one draw against Ireland and Northern Ireland . They then met Denmark in the quarter-finals . After a goalless draw in Denmark , they lost the home game in Denekamp 1-0 after extra time. The Danes qualified for the World Cup.

World Cup 1995 in Sweden

Four years later, they missed qualifying for the European Championship in 1995 in the group stage. This time Iceland , which lost both games, and Greece , which won both games, were the group opponents. As runners-up in the group, they missed both the quarter-finals and the World Cup. Iceland failed in the quarterfinals and could not qualify for the World Cup either.

World Cup 1999 in the USA

For the third World Cup, UEFA scheduled qualifying matches for the first time . To date, UEFA is the only continental association that holds separate World Cup qualifiers. Because unlike the World Championships for men , where this first time for the 2006 World Cup was, also the defending champion always had to qualify for the Women's World Cup, the Dutch women met in the group stage in a group of death on world champion Norway , European champions Germany and England . However, the Dutch women didn't lose any of their home games against these top-class players, winning 1-0 against Germany and 2-1 against England and achieved a goalless draw against the world champions. But since the three away games were lost, it was only enough to place 3 ahead of England. With the victory against the European champions, they had forced the German team into the relegation games of the group runners-up against Ukraine , but they were survived. World champion Norway, on the other hand, qualified directly for the World Cup.

2003 World Cup in the USA

The 2003 World Cup should actually take place again in the People's Republic of China . Because of the SARS epidemic, the tournament was moved to the USA at short notice. This was the second time that the World Cup took place in the USA. The Dutch met Germany and England again in qualifying and Portugal for the first time . The Dutch started with a 0-0 draw in England but then lost four games before beating Portugal 4-1 in their last game. So it was only enough for 3rd place. Germany - which won all games - qualified directly for the World Cup this time and could not be defeated there either. The English women failed in the playoffs of the group runners-up in the playoff final to France , which France qualified for the first time.

World Cup 2007 in the People's Republic of China

England and France were then four years later the opponents in qualifying for the next World Cup, which then took place for the second time in the People's Republic of China . As further group opponents, the Dutch women had to deal with Austria and Hungary . The Dutch started with two 1-0 wins in France and Austria, but then lost to England with 0-1. After a 5-0 win in Hungary, they also lost their next home game, this time 2-0 against France. This was followed by three games that ended 4-0: in England with four goals for England, and in the two home games with four goals each for the Dutch against Austria and Hungary. In the end, however, six points were missing from qualifying for the World Cup, which the English women achieved for the first time since 1995.

World Cup 2011 in Germany

After qualifying for the 2009 European Championship for the first time, the Dutch wanted to take part in the World Cup in the neighboring country. In March 2010, Roger Reijners took over the office of bond coach from Vera Pauw , who had coached the Dutch women since 2004 and who had resigned after differences with the association's management. At the drawing, they were assigned to Pot B and from this they were drawn into the qualification group with ex-world champion Norway . Other opponents were Belarus , Slovakia and Macedonia , which lost all games. The Dutch lost their qualification in their first game with a 3-0 win in Norway. Then followed with a 13-1 win against Macedonia, one of their two highest international wins, but also a 1-1 draw against Belarus. All of the following games were won - except for the home game against Norway, which ended 2-2. So it was only enough for second place behind Norway, which prevailed in the play-off round of the group winners against Ukraine and went to the World Cup without pulling down big trees there.

2015 World Cup in Canada

Starting line-ups in the first World Cup game for the Dutch women

Vivianne Miedema , top scorer in World Cup qualification

→ Main article : Women's World Cup 2015 / Netherlands

Four years later, the Dutch women finally qualified for the World Cup. But they needed the most games of all the qualified teams to qualify: 10 group games and four play-off games. Previously, they had qualified again for the EM 2013 , but did not survive the preliminary round there. Thus, when the qualification for the World Cup in Canada was drawn, they were assigned to Pot 2 again and were again drawn into the group with Vice European Champion Norway, against whom they had lost in the preliminary round at the 2013 European Championship . Other group opponents were neighboring Belgium , where they won their first game 4-0, Portugal , Greece and, for the first time, Albania . After a 7-0 win in Portugal, they gambled away the direct qualification in the home games against Norway and Belgium, as they lost it with 1: 2 or only got a 1: 1. On the last day of the match, however, the Dutch women were able to secure participation in the playoff games of the group runners-up with a win in Norway. In the playoffs they were then able to qualify for the first time with two wins against the Scottish women and after a 1-1 home game with a 2-1 win in Italy . Both goals were scored by Vivianne Miedema , who was only 18 years old and with a total of 16 goals she was also the top scorer in European qualifying. In the other confederations only one player, Jamaican Shakira Duncan, also scored 16 goals, but did not qualify for the finals. Duncan also scored 14 of the 16 goals in the prequalification against weaker teams. Together with Anja Mittag , who scored 11 goals in qualifying and five in the finals, they were also the best goalscorers in the overall competition.

When the groups were drawn, the Dutch women were not seeded and were drawn to group A with host Canada . Other opponents were China and Oceania champions New Zealand . With one win, one draw and one defeat, the Dutch women finished third in the group behind Canada and New Zealand due to fewer goals scored. In the round of 16 against defending champion Japan, to whom they had always lost in three previous games, they ended in the round of 16. With this, the Dutch women also missed the direct qualification for the women's soccer tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games , but still had the chance to receive the third European Olympic ticket in play-offs against the three other European round of 16 losers and thus participate in the Olympic soccer tournament for the first time. This chance was finally squandered in those playoffs when they finished second behind Sweden. On August 1st, the KNVB ended its collaboration with Roger Reijners . As an interim bond coach, Sarina Wiegman , his assistant , was initially responsible for the team.

World Cup 2019 in France

Starting grid in the final

In July 2017 the Dutch women were able to use their home advantage and become European champions for the first time . In the qualification , which started in September 2017 , they went - although they were only allocated to Pot B at the time of the draw - as one of the group favorites, as they had eliminated the supposedly strongest opponent Norway in the group games at the European Championships. They then also won the first qualifying game against the Norwegians 1-0. After a 5-0 win in Slovakia, they then gave up a point in their goalless home game against Ireland. This then ensured that, despite the victories in the other games, after a 1: 2 defeat in Norway on the last day of the game, they only finished second and the Norwegians qualified as group winners for the World Cup, as they were in addition to the game in the Netherlands won all other games. As the best runners-up in the group, the European champions qualified for the playoffs of the four best runners-up in the group. In the semifinals, there was a European Championship final against Denmark and, like in the European Championship final, the Dutch women prevail with two wins (2-0 and 2-1). In the playoff final they met Switzerland, which like the Dutch four years earlier had made it to a World Cup for the first time. In the first leg they laid the foundations for qualifying for the World Cup with a 3-0 win after a goalless first half. In the second leg they were already outnumbered in the seventh minute after a red card for captain Anouk Dekker , but initially held the 0-0 and after Vivianne Miedema put the Dutch in the 52nd lead with her seventh qualifying goal, the Swiss needed five goals for a successful qualification. But they only managed one goal and so the Dutch qualified for the second time for a World Cup finals.

In France, the Dutch met Canada and New Zealand, as they did four years earlier, and for the first time Cameroon . With three wins, the European champions qualified for the round of 16, where, as in 2015, Asian champions Japan were the opponents. With two goals by Lieke Martens , who became the new record scorer in the World Cup for the Netherlands, the result of 2015 could be turned around and the quarter-finals against Italy reached. Here the Dutch won 2-0, with Vivianne Miedema taking the lead with her third World Cup goal. With the win, the Dutch women also qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games . In the semifinals, after 90 minutes without a goal, Jackie Groenen scored the only goal of the game. This was the first time the Dutch were in the final, where they lost 2-0 to defending champions USA, but were the first opponents to not concede a goal in the first half.

Games

The best Dutch World Cup goal scorers

Lieke Martens
(3 World Cup goals)

Vivianne Miedema
(3 World Cup goals)

When they first played, the Dutch played four games, of which only the first game was won. A draw and two defeats followed. The Dutch played against both the hosts and the defending champions. In 2019 there were six wins and one defeat in the final, through which the Dutch women improved from 19th to 12th place in the all-time table. The Dutch have only played against African, Asian, European, North American and Oceanic teams and against the Asian and Oceania champions (twice each) and once against the COBCACAF champions.

Four players were used in all eleven games. With three goals each, Lieke Martens and Vivianne Miedema are the best World Cup goalscorers in the Netherlands.

All World Cup games
No.	date	Result	opponent		venue	occasion	Remarks
1	06/06/2015	1-0	New Zealand	*	Edmonton ( CAN )	Preliminary round	First victory of a World Cup novice in their first World Cup game against a team with World Cup experience.
2	06/11/2015	0: 1	China	*	Edmonton ( CAN )	Preliminary round
3	06/15/2015	1: 1	Canada	A.	Montreal ( CAN )	Preliminary round
4th	06/23/2015	1: 2	Japan (TV)	*	Vancouver ( CAN )	Round of 16
5	06/11/2019	1-0	New Zealand	*	Le Havre ( FRA )	Preliminary round
6th	June 15, 2019	3: 1	Cameroon	*	Valenciennes ( FRA )	Preliminary round	First game against Cameroon
7th	06/20/2019	2: 1	Canada	*	Reims ( FRA )	Preliminary round
8th	06/25/2019	2: 1	Japan	*	Rennes ( FRA )	Round of 16
9	06/29/2019	2-0	Italy	*	Valenciennes ( FRA )	Quarter finals
10	07/03/2019	1: 0 a.d.	Sweden	*	Lyon ( FRA )	Semifinals
11	07/07/2019	0: 2	USA (TV)	*	Lyon ( FRA )	final

Note: The team in bold were champions of their confederation at the time of the game.

Records

• First newcomer to win his first World Cup game against a team with World Cup experience.
• Fewest goals conceded as a newcomer in the preliminary round: 2

See also

Dutch national football team / world championships

Web links

• FIFA Women's World Cup ^TM

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games, see Technical Report FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™ , page 159
2. ↑ framba.de: "Women's World Cup 2015: group draw degenerates into a farce" ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ onsoranje.nl: "KNVB en bondscoach Reijners uit elkaar" ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ football.ch: The Swiss women miss the big coup