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Netherlands Antilles 
Association Nederlands Antilliaanse
Voetbal UnieConfederation CONCACAF (North America) Head coach Remko Bicentini Captain Robin Nelisse Home stadium Stadion Ergilio Hato FIFA code ANT FIFA ranking 151 Highest FIFA ranking 118 (July 1995) Lowest FIFA ranking 188 (December 2003) Elo ranking 171 Highest Elo ranking 41 (March 1963) Lowest Elo ranking 174 (October 2009, October 2010) 
Home colours
Away coloursFirst international 
Curacao 3 - 1 Dutch Guiana
(Curaçao; July 23, 1934)
Last International
Neth. Antilles 2 - 2 Suriname 
(Willemstad, 31 October 2010)Biggest win 
Neth. Antilles 15 - 0 Puerto Rico 
(Venezuela; January 15, 1959)Biggest defeat Netherlands 8 - 0 Neth. Antilles
(Amsterdam, Netherlands; September 5, 1962)
Mexico 8 - 0 Neth. Antilles
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti; December 8, 1973)CONCACAF Championship
& Gold CupAppearances 4 (First in 1963) Best result Third, 1963, 1969 The Netherlands Antilles national football team was the national team of the former Netherlands Antilles and was controlled by the Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie. The NAVU consisted of Curaçao and Bonaire. Aruba split in 1986 and has its own team.
The Netherlands Antilles team never qualified for the FIFA World Cup. The country managed to come third in the CONCACAF championships of 1963 and 1969; for four days in March 1963 they could have been regarded as unofficial World Champions, beating Mexico 2-1 before losing to Costa Rica 0-1.
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History
Under the name Curaçao, the team played its first international game in 1934 (against Suriname, which was then still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as well) and continued to use the name Curaçao until the qualifications for the World Championships of 1958,[1] although the name of the area had changed from "Territory of Curaçao" to "Netherlands Antilles" in 1948. In order to boost the competence of the team's players, in 1968 an agreement was nearly reached which would allow the Netherlands Antilles to play in the Combined Counties Football League in the lower divisions of the English football pyramid. The move would have seen the team adopting a home ground in the Netherlands as a base and travelling to play English teams as a regular team, albeit one without promotion or relegation prospects. However, the idea was shelved after initial promise due to cost concerns for most amateur teams.[2]
Dissolution of country
The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as a unified political entity on October 10, 2010, and the five constituent islands took on new constitutional statuses within the Kingdom of the Netherlands,[3] forming 2 new countries (Curaçao and Sint Maarten) and 3 new special municipalities of the Netherlands.
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 is already a member of CONCACAF, but not of FIFA. The Curaçao national football team took the place of the Netherlands Antilles as a FIFA member.[4]
World Cup record
2010 Qualifying
Round 1
Team 1 agg. Team 2 Leg 1 Leg 2 
Nicaragua0-3 Netherlands Antilles0-1 0-2 Round 2
Team 1 agg. Team 2 Leg 1 Leg 2 
Haiti1-0 Netherlands Antilles0-0 1-0 CONCACAF Championship record
- 1963 - 3rd place
- 1965 - 5th place
- 1967 - Did not qualify
- 1969 - 3rd place
- 1971 - Withdrew
- 1973 - 6th place
- 1977 to 1989 - Did not qualify
Gold Cup record
- 1991 - Did not enter
- 1993 - Withdrew
- 1996 to 2000 - Did not qualify
- 2002 - Did not enter
- 2003 - Did not qualify
- 2005 - Withdrew
- 2007 to 2011 - Did not qualify
Pan American Games record
Managers
Netherlands Antilles national football team – managers Dacunha (1957–1965) · Zwartkruis (1978–81) · Verbeek (2004) · Silee (2005–07) · Looyen (2008) · Bicentini (2009–10)
See also
- Curaçao national football team (The name of the team before the change of country name to Netherlands Antilles)
- Sint Maarten national football team
- Netherlands national football team
References
- ^ "History of the FIFA worldcup preliminary competition (By year)". FIFA. 19 September 2007. http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mcwc/fifaworldcuppreliminaryhistory_byyear__13876.pdf. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ Dave Russell, Football and the English: A Social History of Association Football, (London, 1997), pp. 78-79
- ^ "Antillen opgeheven op 10-10-2010" (in Dutch). NOS. 2009-10-01. http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen/2009/10/1/011009_antillen.html. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
- ^ http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=cuw/index.html Curaçao page on FIFA.com
External links
- Netherlands Antilles at the FIFA website.
- Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie site
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