National U–21 association football team

The Netherlands national under-21 football team is the national under-21 team of the Netherlands and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association. The team competes in the european Under-21 Championship, held every two years. Following the realignment of UEFA ‘s youth competitions in 1976, the dutch Under-21 team was formed. The team did not have a very good record, failing to qualify for nine of the fifteen tournaments. The team did not enter for the 1978 contest, but since then has reached the semi-finals doubly, and qualified for the last eight on three other occasions.

Since the under-21 rival rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the beginning of a biennial competition, technically it is an U-23 competition. For this reason, the Netherlands ‘ record in the preceding U-23 competitions is besides shown. The first competitive match was in the “ Under-23 challenge ”, a equal which they lost. The team qualified for the end eight of each of the three U-23 tournaments. In 2006 the Netherlands national under-21 football team of coach Foppe de Haan won the 2006 european Under-21 Championship. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar became lead scorer and musician of the tournament with four goals, and besides broke the all-time goalscoring record of 15 goals previously held by Roy Makaay and Arnold Jan Bruggink, in his last equal with the team as he pushed this phonograph record to eighteen goals. The succeed class, Netherlands home under-21 football team successfully defended their title by winning the 2007 european Under-21 Championship in the final against Serbia with 4–1. Maceo Rigters was the top scorekeeper of the competition with four goals and Royston Drenthe was the Player of the Tournament. The win meant that the Netherlands qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team failed to qualify for the 2009 european Under-21 Championship, after losing out to Switzerland in their final examination modify match .

UEFA U-23 Championship record [edit ]

The Netherlands were randomly chosen to play cards Bulgaria for the claim in a one-off match in Sofia, which the Netherlands lost .

  • 17 April 1968: Bulgaria 3–1 Netherlands.
  • 1972: Losing quarter-finalists.
  • 1974: Losing quarter-finalists.
  • 1976: Losing semi-finalists.

UEFA U-21 Championship Record [edit ]

Year Round
1978 Did not enter
1980 Did not qualify
1982 Did not qualify
1984 Did not qualify
1986 Did not qualify
1988 Semi-finals
1990 Group stage
1992 Quarter-finals
1994 Did not qualify
1996 Did not qualify
1998 Fourth place
2000 Group stage
2002 Did not qualify
2004 Did not qualify
2006 Champions
2007 Champions
2009 Did not qualify
2011 Did not qualify
2013 Semi-finals
2015 Did not qualify
2017 Did not qualify
2019 Did not qualify
2021 Semi-finals

noteworthy players [edit ]

Olympic Games [edit ]

Results and fixtures 2017–2019 [edit ]

2019 UEFA european Under-21 Championship [edit ]

qualification [edit ]

Group degree [edit ]

Rules for classification: Updated to match ( e ) played on unknown. source : UEFA Rules for classification : reservation tiebreakers

Players [edit ]

current team [edit ]

Players born in or after 1998 are eligible for the 2021 UEFA european Under-21 Championship. The following players were called up for the 2021 UEFA european Under-21 Championship from 31 May 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Names in italics denote players who have been capped for the Senior team.

Caps and goals updated as 6 October 2021. Clubs updated as of 6 October 2021

recent call ups [edit ]

The following players have previously been called up to the Netherlands under-21 squad in the concluding year and remain eligible .

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
DF Kik Pierie (

2000-07-20

)20 July 2000 ( age 21 )

0 0 NetherlandsTwente v.  Cyprus, 10 September 2019PRE
MF Mohamed Ihattaren (

2002-02-12

)12 February 2002 ( long time 19 )

0 0 ItalySampdoria v.  Cyprus, 10 September 2019PRE
INJ Withdrew due to injury.
PRE Preliminary police squad.
SEN Accepted call up to aged team .

individual all-time records [edit ]

 

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